Conway-Kochen and the finite precision loophole

DOI10.1007/S10701-014-9827-8zbMATH Open1304.81016OpenAlexW2131369964MaRDI QIDQ474891FDOQ474891

Authors Ronnie Hermens 

Publication date 25 November 2014

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.2114

zbMATH Keywords

nonlocalityKochen-Specker theoremConway-Kochen theoremfinite precision loopholenoncontextuality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13)

Abstract: Recently Cator & Landsman made a comparison between Bell's Theorem and Conway & Kochen's Strong Free Will Theorem. Their overall conclusion was that the latter is stronger in that it uses fewer assumptions, but also that it has two shortcomings. Firstly, no experimental test of the Conway-Kochen Theorem has been performed thus far, and, secondly, because the Conway-Kochen Theorem is strongly connected to the Kochen-Specker Theorem it may be susceptible to the finite precision loophole of Meyer, Kent and Clifton. In this paper I show that the finite precision loophole does not apply to the Conway-Kochen Theorem.

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