Abstract
Linear combinations of “elements of reality,” as defined by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen, may not be themselves “elements of reality.” There are questions which can be formulated (and unambiguously answered) in the ordinary language of experimental physics, but cannot be represented in the mathematical framework of quantum theory in a nontrivial way.
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Peres, A. Einstein, Gödel, Bohr. Found Phys 15, 201–205 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00735292
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00735292