ABSTRACT
Einstein’s Trojan horse, built for the fortress of quantum theory,
is contained in a publication that he authored together with
two young physicists, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen, and is
generally called the EPR paper (Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen,
1935). Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) presented a proof
that the use of probability or chance in quantum theory has very
unsettling consequences, because quantum theory teaches possible
correlations of two distant events. How can single events that are
random be correlated to other random single events? EPR suggests
that there are only two possible explanations:
• Quantum theory necessitates instantaneous influences, influences that propagate faster than the speed of light
in vacuum. These influences of distant events on each
other explain, then, the correlations of the two distant
events. Einstein was convinced that his relativity theory
had excluded the possibility of such influences, and if that
was the explanation, then quantum mechanics was simply
wrong.
