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Dr. Bertlmann's Socks in the Quaternionic World of Ambidextral Reality
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- In this pedagogical paper, John S. Bell's amusing example of Dr. Bertlmann's socks is reconsidered, first within a toy model of a two-dimensional one-sided world of a non-orientable M\"obius strip, and then within a real world of three-dimensional quaternionic sphere, S^3, which results from an addition of a single point to R^3 at infinity. In the quaternionic world, which happens to be the spatial part of a solution of Einstein's field equations of general relativity, the singlet correlations between a pair of entangled fermions can be understood as classically as those between Dr. Bertlmann's colorful socks.<br />Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures; An appendix is added proving the equivalence of the conservation of spin angular momentum and the twists in the Hopf bundle of S^3; minor improvements
- Subjects :
- Toy model
General Computer Science
Spacetime
General relativity
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General Engineering
FOS: Physical sciences
Quantum entanglement
Infinity
01 natural sciences
Causality (physics)
Theoretical physics
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General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
Physics - General Physics
0103 physical sciences
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General Materials Science
Möbius strip
Einstein
010306 general physics
010303 astronomy & astrophysics
Mathematics
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3d3fdae7be4fbca2cf91e373f00a76bc