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arxiv: 1203.1139 · v4 · pith:BHVAA6TLnew · submitted 2012-03-06 · 🪐 quant-ph · gr-qc· physics.hist-ph

EPR before EPR: a 1930 Einstein-Bohr thought experiment revisited

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In 1930 Einstein argued against consistency of the time-energy uncertainty relation by discussing a thought experiment involving a measurement of mass of the box which emitted a photon. Bohr seemingly triumphed over Einstein by arguing that the Einstein's own general theory of relativity saves the consistency of quantum mechanics. We revisit this thought experiment from a modern point of view at a level suitable for undergraduate readership and find that neither Einstein nor Bohr was right. Instead, this thought experiment should be thought of as an early example of a system demonstrating nonlocal "EPR" quantum correlations, five years before the famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paper.

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