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Re:IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says practical ... by zitterbewegung on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @12:19PM (#3643916)
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_theorem Hidden variable theories don't make sense.
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Re:IBM shows off quantum computing advances, says practical ... by onemoreact on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @02:07PM (#3644400)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_Theorem works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_theorem does not.

Anyway, that's not quite true, you can get there by giving up principle of locality or counterfactual definiteness. And in theory nothing requires the principle of locality to be true.

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