Talk:Sakurai's Bell inequality

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The material in the new page is mostly copied from the existing Bell's theorem page, which I plan to replace shortly. The latter needs re-structuring and should reference mainly the versions of the inequality that are used (the CHSH Bell test and Clauser and Horne's 1974 Bell test), not one that has never achieved more than thought-experiment status. A link to the new Sakurai page will be included. Caroline Thompson 12:10, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I've discovered that there is already a Wigner-d'Espagnat inequality page, and so considerable overlap in content. The two need to be merged some time. Caroline Thompson 08:49, 14 Aug 2004 (UTC)

OK, Dr Chinese! Remove the ref to my Chaotic Ball paper if you have to, but there was no call to delete the whole paragraph! In practice, the inequality in question is absolutely useless. The detection loophole here is so wide you could (as Marshall et al said in some paper or other) drive a coach and horses through it! And my paper that you classify as self-promotion is the only one I know of that says exactly how the loophole works. Bell and others were aware of it, and this is presumably the reason why they never considered using it in real experiments, but I don't remember them ever bothering to explain it.Caroline Thompson 20:58, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

The inequality discussed here is but one of several "Bell inequalities". The page that described the others has been redirected to [[Bell's theorem] which describes only one of them. The redirection is therefore inappropriate. Bring back the Bell inequalities page, please! Caroline Thompson 18:35, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)