"Again, part of that psychohistorical study I would like to see is why it did not impress the Copenhagen people, especially Bohr. But in the end it turns out that these other people were, in a way, right, because what I am notorious for, the so-called Bell's theorem, is just for showing that Einstein's explanation doesn't work. Einstein's explanation works so long as you have perfect correlations, which means measuring the same component of spin on the two sides [spin is a measure of a property similar but not identical to the rotation of a particle on its axis]. But as soon as you are measuring in a nonparallel direction, you get results that cannot be explained by Einstein's idea that the answers existed before the experiment."
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John Stewart Bell, in interview, Omni, May 1988, p. 90
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