Boris Podolsky coauthored the 1935 argument of Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen about the completeness of the wave function. Their example correlates two distant particles so that a measurement on one can predict either the other's position or its momentum. Combining their certainty-based criterion for an element of reality with the assumption that the remote measurement does not disturb the second particle leads to a tension with a complete wave function description. The argument states assumptions about reality and disturbance; it is distinct from the later experimentally testable Bell inequalities.[ref]
Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? by Albert Einstein and others. 1935 paper, reality criterion and position–momentum example
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Boris Podolsky was a Soviet physicist known for his contributions to quantum mechanics. He is perhaps most famously associated with the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox, which he co-authored with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen in a 1935 paper.
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