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Preface; Contents; Contributors; John Stewart Bell-The Man; 1 Address to Participants at Quantum [Un]Speakables II; 2 John Stewart Bell, Quantum Information and Quantum Information Theory; References; 3 Bell's Universe: A Personal Recollection; Collaboration with John Bell; John Bell
the Particle Physicist; John Bell
the Accelerator Physicist; John and Mary Bell; Mary Bell; Joint Works of the Bells; Out of the Blue; Bell and the Quantum; Contextuality; Nonlocality; Bell Inequalities; Historical Experiments; Some Memories and John's Quantum Legacy; Turn to Quantum Mechanics.
Entanglement in Particle PhysicsDecoherence of Entangled Particle
Antiparticle Systems; Bell Inequalities in Particle Physics; Entanglement in Mathematical Physics; Entanglement and Bell Inequalities; Entanglement Witness Inequality; Geometry of Quantum States: Entanglement Versus Separability; As Time Goes by .; References; Bell's Theorem-Fundamental Issues; 4 Why QBism Is Not the Copenhagen Interpretation and What John Bell Might Have Thought of It; 5 On the Quantum Measurement Problem; Two Measurement Problems; What Is the Quantum State?; FAPP Irreversibility.
Deutsch's Thought ExperimentReferences; 6 Causarum Investigatio and the Two Bell's Theorems of John Bell; Motivation; The Situation Bell Considered; The Two Bell's Theorems of John Bell; Bell's 1964 Theorem; Bell's 1976 Theorem; A Fine Distinction; The Two Camps; Back to Basics; Realist Principles; Operationalist Principles; Reactions and Reconciliation; Conclusion; References; 7 Whose Information? Information About What?; References; 8 Quantum Theory: It's Unreal; A Story About Muons; The Assumption of Physical Properties; Monkey Realism; Quantum Realism; An Intellectual Mess.
Knowledge Quite Naturally Spreads and CollapsesSadly, It Cannot Just Be All About Knowledge; Other Ways Quantum Realism Is Weird; Why Thinking About These Pretty Abstract and Philosophical Things Is Sometimes Practically Important; Back to Crazy Speculations About a Route to a Solution; How to Construct a Theory with a Different Space/Time Experience?; 9 The Universe Would Not Be Perfect Without Randomness: A Quantum Physicist's Reading of Aquinas; Abstract; Introduction; Aquinas on God's Providence; The Case for Fortune and Chance; Message in an Old Bottle; Acknowledgments.
10 Bell's Theorem Tells Us Not What Quantum Mechanics Is, but What Quantum Mechanics Is NotIntroduction; Paradoxes of Interpretations of the EPR Paradox: Elementary Presentation; Local Causality; Final Remarks; References; Contextuality; 11 The Unspeakable Why; Introduction; The KCBS and the CHSH Inequalities; Introducing the Exclusivity Principle; The Limit of the KCBS Inequality; The Limit of the CHSH Inequality; The Unspeakable Why; References; 12 A Reconstruction of Quantum Mechanics; Introduction; Properties; States; Probability Measures; Pure and Mixed States; Observables.
the Particle Physicist; John Bell
the Accelerator Physicist; John and Mary Bell; Mary Bell; Joint Works of the Bells; Out of the Blue; Bell and the Quantum; Contextuality; Nonlocality; Bell Inequalities; Historical Experiments; Some Memories and John's Quantum Legacy; Turn to Quantum Mechanics.
Entanglement in Particle PhysicsDecoherence of Entangled Particle
Antiparticle Systems; Bell Inequalities in Particle Physics; Entanglement in Mathematical Physics; Entanglement and Bell Inequalities; Entanglement Witness Inequality; Geometry of Quantum States: Entanglement Versus Separability; As Time Goes by .; References; Bell's Theorem-Fundamental Issues; 4 Why QBism Is Not the Copenhagen Interpretation and What John Bell Might Have Thought of It; 5 On the Quantum Measurement Problem; Two Measurement Problems; What Is the Quantum State?; FAPP Irreversibility.
Deutsch's Thought ExperimentReferences; 6 Causarum Investigatio and the Two Bell's Theorems of John Bell; Motivation; The Situation Bell Considered; The Two Bell's Theorems of John Bell; Bell's 1964 Theorem; Bell's 1976 Theorem; A Fine Distinction; The Two Camps; Back to Basics; Realist Principles; Operationalist Principles; Reactions and Reconciliation; Conclusion; References; 7 Whose Information? Information About What?; References; 8 Quantum Theory: It's Unreal; A Story About Muons; The Assumption of Physical Properties; Monkey Realism; Quantum Realism; An Intellectual Mess.
Knowledge Quite Naturally Spreads and CollapsesSadly, It Cannot Just Be All About Knowledge; Other Ways Quantum Realism Is Weird; Why Thinking About These Pretty Abstract and Philosophical Things Is Sometimes Practically Important; Back to Crazy Speculations About a Route to a Solution; How to Construct a Theory with a Different Space/Time Experience?; 9 The Universe Would Not Be Perfect Without Randomness: A Quantum Physicist's Reading of Aquinas; Abstract; Introduction; Aquinas on God's Providence; The Case for Fortune and Chance; Message in an Old Bottle; Acknowledgments.
10 Bell's Theorem Tells Us Not What Quantum Mechanics Is, but What Quantum Mechanics Is NotIntroduction; Paradoxes of Interpretations of the EPR Paradox: Elementary Presentation; Local Causality; Final Remarks; References; Contextuality; 11 The Unspeakable Why; Introduction; The KCBS and the CHSH Inequalities; Introducing the Exclusivity Principle; The Limit of the KCBS Inequality; The Limit of the CHSH Inequality; The Unspeakable Why; References; 12 A Reconstruction of Quantum Mechanics; Introduction; Properties; States; Probability Measures; Pure and Mixed States; Observables.