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It is stressed that any theory of which it is claimed that it is compatible both with standard realism and with the experimental data is subject to severe constraints. One is that it must either incorporate superluminal influences or negate the free will of the experimentalist. The other one is that, in it. it is only at the price of accepting “backward causality” that a measurement can he interpreted as revealing the value the measured quantity had, just before, rather than just after, the measurement look place.
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Dedicated to Professor Max Jammer on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
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d'Espagnat, B. Influences, histories, and reality. Found Phys 26, 919–928 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02148834
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