ABSTRACT

In the early 1950’s, Bohm simplified the 1935 EPR state from continuous coordinate-momentum space to discrete spin space by introducing a singlet state of two spin 1/2 particles. A more practical example of the EPR-Bohm state concerns the polarization states of photon pairs, such as the spin-zero state of a high energy photon pair disintegrated from the annihilation of positronium. Is it possible to have a realistic theory which provides correct predictions of the behavior of a particle similar to quantum theory and, at the same time, respects the description of physical reality by EPR as “complete”? Bohm and his followers have attempted a “hidden variable theory” to formulate the physical reality into the wavefunction of a particle or a pair of particles. The experimental testing of Bell’s inequality started from the early 1970’s. Most of the historical experiments concluded the violation of the Bell’s inequalities and thus disproved the local hidden variable theory.