Jeff Choy

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Student Member at the IFoA. I was a Management Trainee in Actuarial & Data Analytics at the General Insurance Association of Malaysia.

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news

Jan 15, 2016	A simple inline announcement with Markdown emoji!
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latest posts

Jul 12, 2023	a post with bibliography
Jul 4, 2023	a post with jupyter notebook
May 12, 2023	a post with custom blockquotes

selected publications

1935

PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein, B. Podolsky, and N. Rosen

Phys. Rev., May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.