Bell Witch Cave, this creepy place is located in the American town of Adams, Tennessee. It all started in 1817, when successful farmer John Bell began to see phantoms of animals. An unknown evil settled in the farmer's house and constantly tormented all its inhabitants: John, his wife Lucy and their seven children. At night, strange rustling and creaking noises were heard in the house. With each new day, or rather night, the poltergeist became more active.
Finally, after some time, evil spoke up: “I’m everywhere! And in heaven, and in hell, and on earth. I am millions of years old, I am the witch Kate Bathe. John Bell will never know the meaning of peace for the rest of his days for the deal he made in his youth.”
What John Bel did in his youth remains a mystery.
During her lifetime, Kate Bathe had a reputation as a witch. She predicted the American Civil War and the outbreak of World War I in Europe. Rumors of her return quickly spread throughout the United States. John Bell even turned to an exorcist to send the witch back to the afterlife, but several strong blows from an invisible hand forced the clergyman to run away.
John Bell's death occurred when an evil spirit replaced a bottle of medicine with a bottle of poison, which he drank. But even after death, the spirit of the witch mocked the dead John. During the funeral, everyone heard terrible screams and vulgar songs. A few days later, Lucy and her children heard the witch's voice in their house: “I am leaving, but in seven years I will return.”
Kate Bathe did not break her promise and exactly 7 years later paranormal phenomena began to occur again in the Bell house. However, Lucy and her two sons, who remained living in this house, agreed to ignore the witch. And it really helped. However, the evil spirit promised to return in a hundred or two years to continue to take revenge on the descendants of John Bell.
Much water has passed under the bridge since then, but this mystical story is still discussed. There were too many witnesses to call this story a fabrication. Richard, John Bell's son, even wrote an autobiographical book about the tyranny of the poltergeist called Our Family Troubles.
The Bell Witch's Cave is located 150 meters from where the farm stood. It is believed that it was in this place that the spirit of the witch found refuge and regained its strength. Today the cave is located on private property, but anyone can visit this creepy place.
Although these terrible events happened a long time ago, at the beginning of the 19th century, there has still not been a ghost in America that could do more trouble than the evil Bellov witch, who has gained fame as the most famous ghost in the United States. The Bell family haunting is one of the most famous mysteries in American history.
It all started in 1817. Prosperous farmer John Bell from Adams (Tennessee) began to see ghost dogs and giant phantom birds. He shot at them, but the shots did not frighten these “creatures”. For a year, the ghost tormented John and Lucy Bell and their eight children. They heard knocking and grinding noises near the house. Inside the house, giant rats appeared to be chewing the bedposts and scratching the floor. The bedspreads were sliding off the beds, and the sleeping inhabitants of the house were awakened by the slaps of invisible hands, which also pulled their hair.
Over time, whistles began to be heard, and then words. At first the voice claimed that he was "everywhere, in heaven, in hell and on earth. I am in the air, in houses, everywhere and always. I was born millions of years ago. That's all I will tell you." The spirit later announced that he was "old Kate Bathe, the witch, and I have decided that I will haunt and torment old John Bell as long as he lives." According to one version, Kate once made a bad deal with John Bell and now wanted revenge. The witch Kate Bathe was a prophetess. She is reported to have predicted the American Civil War and both World Wars. Rumors about her spread throughout the country, and President Andrew Jackson decided to visit the Bell farm, accompanied by an exorcist. After attempting to shoot Kate with a silver bullet, the killer was slapped in the face by unseen forces and quickly retreated.
Most of all, the rich planter was furious with the witch because she upset the engagement of Betsy, his daughter. In front of the guests, the ghost said such dirty words to the girl and her fiancé that Betsy ran away in tears and locked herself in her room. Immediately after this incident, John saw a whitish transparent silhouette in the corner of the living room; the planter grabbed a saber and shouted: “I will destroy you, fiend of hell!” - rushed to strike the ghost. Of course, he did not cause any harm to the spirit, but he made him very angry. The witch began to take revenge on the owner of the house. At first, it was as if a stick had been shoved into John's mouth: his jaws and tongue became so stiff that he could neither eat nor speak. The planter's face twitched with convulsions, causing terrible grimaces. In 1820, while walking with her son, the witch pulled off his shoes several times; the weakened John, who had also received a severe slap from the spirit, sat down on a fallen tree and cried. The witch still broke the will of this strong and self-confident man.
Soon after this incident, John fell into a coma. It turned out that the witch had replaced his bottle of medicine with a bottle of some suspicious liquid, which he apparently took. The commotion at home was aggravated by the spirit's statement that the elder Bell was no longer a resident in this world. The arriving doctor decided to test the witch’s “medicine” from the bottle on a cat that came to hand, and she died immediately. It became clear that old Bell would not live long; a few hours later the planter died. Even after death, the ghost mocked poor John to his heart's content. During the funeral, either the heart-rending screams of the witch or her daring songs were heard. It is not known whether the elder Bell stood up for his family in the next world or entered into an invisible battle with this evil spirits, but a few months later, when one day the whole family sat down at the dinner table, a terrible roar was heard, a cannonball fell into the fireplace and immediately exploded. After such a “spectacular” introduction, the witch’s voice was heard: “I’m leaving, wait for me in seven years.” Of course, when this period passed, Lucy and her two sons, who of the whole family remained living in the house, felt out of place.
The witch kept her word, seven years later suspicious sounds began to be heard in the house again, and the invisible man pulled the blankets off the sleeping people. But either the witch missed Betsy’s presence, or was struck by the indifference of the household, who agreed among themselves not to pay any attention to the spirit, the ghost this time disappeared, not having lasted even two weeks in the house. True, it visited the house of John Bell Jr. a couple of times in 1828, threatening him to return in 107 years... Such a promise from the witch most likely no longer frightened the Bells; it is unlikely that any of them intended to live for so long.
Although this mysterious and tragic story happened a long time ago, researchers of anomalous phenomena are still arguing about this mysterious case. The fact is that the case of the Bellov witch had too many witnesses to be a hoax or fiction. Richard, the son of John Bell, even wrote a book about the tyranny of the ghost called "Our Family Troubles." Some consider this case a classic manifestation of a poltergeist, others see in it a riot of devilish forces, others even insist on the hypothesis of a mass hallucination... Well, a hallucination lasting several years... There is something in this. Some suspect that John Bell was poisoned not by an invisible witch, but by some insidious killer. Whether this is true or not, we have no way of knowing.
Stories about witches always excite the imagination and arouse eerie curiosity. We want to tell you the real story about the Bell Witch, which formed the basis of the famous film “The Blair Witch Project”.
John Bell settled on the Red River in Tennessee near what is now Adams Township. Things were going well, his wife and four children were a good help to the farmer and, as always happens, there were no signs of trouble.
And so, on one of the ordinary days in 1817, John went into the field to see how the wheat was growing. Suddenly a strange creature appeared on his way. Something between a rabbit and a dog. He managed to shoot a couple of times in the direction of the animal before it quickly disappeared from view.
Little did he know then that this event would lead to a series of mysterious incidents that would become the most exciting American ghost story.
After an incident with an unusual animal, the family began to experience strange sounds. On the street every now and then something knocked and rumbled. All attempts to determine the source of the noise were unsuccessful - there was no one or anything on the street.
Meanwhile, the mysterious sounds had already moved inside the house. The noisy something became so bold that it began to move objects and even pester children. It poked them in the sides, pushed them and pulled their hair. Betsy Bell especially got it.
Over time, the vague sounds that the entity made began to resemble a human voice, which immediately suggested that it was someone’s restless soul. Soon the culprit was found - the late Kate Batts, one of John Bell's neighbors, with whom he had a bad relationship. Both Bell's family and friends who visited their home testified that they observed strange paranormal phenomena and even communicated with the ghost of Kate Batts, who was soon given the name "The Bell Witch."
Her fame quickly spread throughout the surrounding area. And one day the legendary American General Andrew Jackson visited the farmer’s house. The presence of the officer and the brave soldiers and witch hunter accompanying him did not bother the shameless ghost.
First, the ghost jammed the wheels of the carriage on which the guests arrived, then it frightened the soldiers with its voice. The witch hunter got the worst of it - she poked and pinched him. Even though most of the company wanted to leave the house immediately, Jackson said he wanted to stay.
However, the family woke up early in the morning to find that the guests had already disappeared. But it was all pranks. The spirit was capable of terrible things. And one day he showed his evil character.
John Bell, a strong man, was knocked down by an unusual illness. One day, the relatives simply found their breadwinner in bed, his body in an unnatural position. The doctor, who could not find an explanation for the strange disease, nevertheless prescribed medicine.
Imagine the surprise of the relatives when they discovered that instead of the medicine in the vessel there was an unknown black substance, one drop of which was enough to kill the cat. It is not surprising that John Bell soon went to the Other World.
During the funeral, the spirit behaved disgracefully - screams, moans and curses rained down on the heads of the widow and children. They say that after the farewell ceremony was over, the witch saw off the guests with obscene drinking songs.
After John Bell's death, the ghost continued to haunt his daughter Betsy Bell. He tortured the girl and demanded that she give up her intention to marry her lover. As a result, succumbing to the spirit's threats, Betsy married a man who did not irritate the wayward witch. She was satisfied and even left the family alone for seven whole years.
She kept her promise, returning within the prescribed period, but disappeared quite quickly, promising to appear next time in 107 years to the closest of the remaining relatives of the Bell family. According to rumors, this “luck” came to Charles Bell in 1934, about which he managed to write a book before he died suddenly.
The Bell Witch is believed to still haunt the farm, which has become a tourist attraction for ghost hunters. They say that clots of plasma, mystical mists and shadows of people appear in the surrounding area every now and then.
There is especially much evidence of apparitions in a cave on the banks of the Red River, in which Betsy Bell sometimes met her tormentor. In it, people are overcome by a strange “heavy” feeling and there is a feeling that an unknown force is trying to strangle them and throw them to the floor.
Recently, another version has appeared, designed to explain otherworldly phenomena on the Bell farm. They say that it is located on the territory of an old Indian burial place, and supposedly one day the remains of a young Indian girl were found and taken to that very cave. But confirmation of this fact has not yet been found.
The cave on the river bank is still open to the public. And the chilling story of the Bell family formed the basis of two feature films: “The Phantom of the Red River” and the famous “The Blair Witch Project.”
Although these terrible events happened a long time ago, at the beginning of the 19th century, there has still not been a ghost in America that could do more trouble than the evil Bellov witch, who has gained fame as the most famous ghost in the United States.
Dad, someone is walking under the window again,” little Richard said to his father, looking around in fear. John Bell, a wealthy planter from Tennessee, turned on the light, took a strong club and went out into the yard. Once again he tried to catch and teach a lesson to the scoundrel who had been frightening his family for several nights. However, the yard was empty, and the old watchman swore that no one approached the house.
The rustling and creaking noises outside the windows had long been a source of concern for John Bell: dark stories about vengeful slaves who killed their masters and their loved ones circulated among the neighbors. Bell also had slaves working on his cotton plantations; it was 1817, and human trafficking was still commonplace in the southern states of the United States. Could any of his slaves be up to no good? He had asked himself this question more than once, but he could not even suspect anyone: many slaves even loved him, because John was a zealous Christian and treated his forced people humanely.
It soon became clear that the slaves had absolutely nothing to do with it: strange sounds began to be heard inside the house, but there were no strangers. If only scratching sounds were heard, everything could be attributed to rats, but the rumble of an invisible chain indicated that there was a real ghost in the house.
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For almost a year, the invisible creature had fun scaring the large Bell family with a variety of sounds, but then it decided to move on to more tangible actions. The children began to wake up at night because someone invisible was tearing off their blankets. One day, the ghost decided to play a nasty joke on one of the Bells’ guests, who stayed overnight with them. The blanket torn from him hung in the air, clearly outlining an invisible human figure. The guest turned out to be a timid ten - shouting: “I caught a ghost!” - he pounced on the invisible man, grabbed him in his arms and tied him with the ends of the blanket.
The brave man wanted to burn the blanket along with its terrible contents in the hearth, but before he could take a few steps towards the fire, the room was filled with a terrible stench. The stench literally paralyzed the respiratory system; Having abandoned the ghost, the guest ran out of the room. When John and his guest, who had run up to the noise, decided to enter the room, the disgusting smell had already disappeared, and an obviously empty blanket was lying on the floor. Needless to say, after this incident, the Bells’ guests tried not to linger.
The ghost did not like such unceremonious treatment of him: after trying to burn him, he went on the offensive.
The ghost's first victims were children. Terrible screams were heard from one or the other children's room. Someone invisible was pulling either Richard or Betsy by the hair with terrible force. Something had to be done, and John decided to consult with his friend James Johnson, who was distinguished not only by enviable courage, but also by certain knowledge in the occult sciences.
By his arrival, the ghost seemed to begin to find a voice.
Johnson listened with great curiosity to the smacking and hacking cough of the invisible man and decided to try to talk to him. His attempt puzzled the ghost for a moment, but soon in response there was what seemed to be a contemptuous whistle.
Bell's friend did not give up his attempts to establish a dialogue with the invisible man, and then one day he heard an unclear whisper in response. With each passing hour the voice of the invisible man became louder and the words clearer. The worst thing is that the ghost spoke only in the presence of Betsy, as if drawing strength from the girl’s energy. This role of a kind of ghost relay was not easy for the poor child: Betsy became dizzy and often lost consciousness. It even reached trance-like states, lasting up to 40 minutes. When Betsy was absent or unconscious, the ghost was silent. They even suspected that the girl was practicing ventriloquism, but they could not prove it.
What did the ghost of the Bell family say? At first, of course, they tried to find out whose spirit it was, but they could not get a clear answer to this question. The ghost either said that it was the spirit of an unburied Indian woman, or was called the Black Dog, or introduced itself as Kate Butt, whom everyone in the area considered to be a local witch.
Ultimately, the ghost was named the Bell Witch. The planter and his family were left alone with a raging spirit, which clearly suffered from a split personality. The fact is that the ghost behaved very ambiguously: for all its evil antics, it could sometimes do good deeds. Particularly interesting are the cases when it saved the life of John’s youngest son, who was caught in a sand landslide. The child was already losing consciousness when he heard an encouraging voice nearby, and invisible hands literally pulled him out of the sand.
The ghost had a special weakness for Lucy, Bell's wife. When she organized a Bible study group and gathered with her friends in the house, the spirit treated them to fruits that materialized straight out of thin air and fell into the shocked women’s laps. During Lucy's illness, the invisible man brought her nuts and even cracked them at her request. A real surprise was a basket of exotic fruits for the birthday of one of the children, which, according to the spirit, he delivered to the table directly from India.
However, such pleasant surprises from a ghost were extremely rare; much more often the spirit committed various dirty tricks. The Bellov witch especially liked to give family members heavy slaps in the face. The effect of surprise, of course, was complete: John would walk through the house, and suddenly his head would twitch from a blow, and a red handprint would appear on his cheek... Even the guests got the worst of it, but poor Betsy received the most beatings. They even tried to take her away from home for a while, but even when visiting a friend, she continued to regularly receive slaps. It is curious that at the same time, the invisible man continued to do his dirty tricks in the Bells’ house.
Most of all, the rich planter was furious with the witch for ruining Betsy's engagement. In front of the guests, the ghost said such dirty words about the girl and her fiancé that Betsy ran away in tears and locked herself in her room. Immediately after this incident, John saw a whitish transparent silhouette in the corner of the living room; the planter grabbed a saber and shouted: “I will destroy you, you fiend of hell!” - rushed to strike the ghost. Of course, he did not cause any harm to the spirit, but he made him very angry.
The witch began to take revenge on the owner of the house. At first, it was as if a stick had been shoved into John's mouth: his jaws and tongue became so stiff that he could neither eat nor speak. The planter's face twitched with convulsions, causing terrible grimaces. In 1820, while walking with her son, the witch pulled off his shoes several times; the weakened John, who had also received a severe slap from the spirit, sat down on a fallen tree and began to cry. The witch still broke the will of this strong and self-confident man.
Soon after this incident, John fell into a coma. It turned out that the witch had replaced his bottle of medicine with a bottle of some suspicious liquid, which he apparently took. The commotion at home was aggravated by the spirit's statement that the elder Bell was no longer a resident in this world. The arriving doctor decided to test the witch’s “medicine” from the bottle on a cat that came to hand, and she died immediately. It became clear that old Bell would not live long; a few hours later the planter died. The damned witch took revenge on the owner of the house.
Even after death, the ghost mocked poor John to his heart's content. During the funeral, either the heart-rending screams of the witch or her daring songs were heard. It is not known whether the elder Bell stood up for his family in the next world or entered into an invisible battle with this evil spirits, but a few months later, when one day the whole family sat down at the dinner table, a terrible roar was heard, a cannonball fell into the fireplace and immediately exploded. After such a “spectacular” introduction, the witch’s voice was heard: “I’m leaving, wait for me in seven years.”
Of course, when this period passed, Lucy and her two sons, who of the whole family remained living in the house, felt out of place. The witch kept her word, seven years later suspicious sounds began to be heard in the house again, and the invisible man pulled the blankets off the sleeping people. But either the witch missed Betsy’s presence, or was struck by the indifference of the household, who agreed among themselves not to pay any attention to the spirit, the ghost this time disappeared, not having lasted even two weeks in the house. True, it visited the house of John Bell Jr. a couple of times in 1828, threatening him to return in 107 years... Such a promise from the witch most likely no longer frightened the Bells; it is unlikely that any of them intended to live for so long.
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Although this mysterious and tragic story happened a long time ago, researchers of anomalous phenomena are still arguing about this mysterious case. The fact is that the case of the Bellov witch had too many witnesses to be a hoax or fiction. Richard, the son of John Bell, even wrote a book about the tyranny of the ghost called “Our Family Troubles.” Some consider this case a classic manifestation of a poltergeist, others see in it a riot of devilish forces, others even insist on the hypothesis of a mass hallucination... Well, a hallucination lasting several years... There is something in this, isn’t it? Some suspect that John Bell was poisoned not by an invisible witch, but by some insidious killer. Whether this is true or not, we have no way of knowing.
Vitaly GOLUBEV
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Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1987)
Dirac Medal from (1988)
Hughes Medal (1989)
Heinemann Prize (1989)
Biography
Childhood
John Stuart Bell was born on 28 June 1928 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, into a poor Irish family. Since his father's name was also John, his family always called him by his middle name, Stuart. In addition to John Stewart, father John and mother Annie had three more children: the eldest daughter Ruby and the younger sons David and Robert.
The mother dreamed of giving her children a good education, because, in her opinion, only an educated person could make his way to a better life and, as she said, “wear a Sunday suit all week.” John Stewart was among the best students in elementary school. “Perhaps I was not the best, but out of three or four at the top in the class.” He began his studies at Ulsterville Avenue School, then moved to Fane Street School. At the age of 11 instead of 14, he passed all the exams to continue his secondary education.
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However, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of greatest unemployment in Belfast, with its shipbuilding and repair yards standing virtually empty, leading to a general decline in the city's economy. Due to lack of funds, it was decided that only John Stewart, obviously the most gifted of the children, would continue his education beyond primary school. At that time, full school education was not compulsory, and only primary school was free.
The price of education in prestigious secondary schools in Belfast, even for one child, was unaffordable for the family, so John Stewart entered the Belfast Technical High School, at that time the approximate equivalent of a technical school. This school, however, had academic accreditation, that is, with its diploma one could take university exams.
When John Stewart began high school, Great Britain had already entered World War II. The war revitalized the economy of Belfast, which became a major naval construction and repair dockyard. However, this also made the city the target of regular German bombing. The night “Easter” raid on April 15, 1941 was especially destructive. (English)Russian. Then about 200 Luftwaffe bombers dropped tons of conventional and incendiary bombs on the city and shipyards. 955 people were killed, 1,500 were injured, half of the city, including most industrial facilities, was destroyed. Fortunately, trouble spared the Bell family. No one was hurt; their house and school survived, and classes soon resumed.
Youth
After successfully graduating from technical school in 1944, 16-year-old Bell worked for a year as a laboratory assistant in the physics department at Queen's University. Faculty teachers Professor Karl Emeleus and Dr. Robert Sloan sympathized with the gifted young man. They not only allowed him to use the faculty library, but also allowed him to listen to the general lectures of the first year.
Finally, in 1945, funds for training were raised, and John Stuart Bell became a student at the Faculty of Physics at Queen's University. He studied brilliantly and in 1948 graduated with honors from the faculty with a specialization in experimental physics. It was then that his interest in quantum mechanics was born - not in its practical application, but in the deep meaning of its provisions. In an interview with Jeremy Bernstein (German)Russian given shortly before his sudden death, Bell recalls being "stunned" by Heisenberg's uncertainty principle:
It looked as if you could take such and such a measurement - and then the position is determined, or such and such a measurement - and then the impulse is determined. It sounded like you could do it any way you wanted. Only after some time I realized that this was not a question of desire, but of equipment. I had to claw my way to it. This was not explained clearly enough in the available books and lectures. I remember arguing about this with one of my professors, Dr. Sloan. I got excited and practically accused him of being dishonest. He also got very excited and said: “You are going too far.”
Original text (English)
It looked as if you could take this size and then the position is well defined, or that size and then the momentum is well defined. It sounded as if you were just free to make it what you wished. It was only slowly that I realized that it"s not a question of what you wish. It"s really a question of what apparatus has produced this situation. But for me it was a bit of a fight to get through to that. It was not very clearly set out in the books and courses that were available to me. I remember arguing with one of my professors, a Doctor Sloane, about that. I was getting very heated and accusing him, more or less, of dishonesty. He was getting very heated too and said, “You"re going too far.”
The funds allowed Bell to study for another year, and he, again, graduated with honors in mathematical physics. On this course, his leader was the German scientist Paul Ewald, who fled the Nazi regime. (English)Russian, founder of X-ray diffraction analysis.
Carier start
Fence with a warning sign. Atomic Research Center in Harvel.
Bell would have preferred to immediately begin work on his doctoral dissertation and work closely on the theory of quantum mechanics. Financial considerations, however, forced him into practice, and he joined the British Atomic Energy Research Department. (English)Russian in Harvel (English)Russian, from where he was soon transferred to the accelerator development group in Malvern (English)Russian. There he met his future wife Mary Ross, a physicist and mathematician from Scotland. They became husband and wife four years later, in 1954. Their marriage turned out to be strong, but childless. Being specialists in related fields, they helped each other both in life and in work. In the preface to his 1987 book, The Expressible and the Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics, Bell wrote: “Here I want especially to express my warm gratitude to Mary Bell. When I look through these papers, I see her everywhere.”
In 1951, Bell received a year's leave to continue his education. He conducted it at the University of Birmingham under the direction of Professor Peierls. There he formulated his version of the CPT-invariance theorem. However, a little earlier, similar theorems had already been independently proposed by Luders and Pauli, who received the status of discoverers.
However, the leave was extended for the time necessary to prepare and defend the dissertation. In 1956, Bell defended his thesis on the analysis of CPT invariance and received the title of Ph.D. The support of Peierls acquired over the years turned out to be valuable, who helped Bell, upon returning to Harvel, transfer to a new research group on the theory of elementary particles.
Bell and his wife worked at Harwell until 1960, but they became increasingly dissatisfied with the steady shift of the project's activities from basic research to applied nuclear physics. Therefore, both, without hesitation, accepted the offer from CERN and moved to Switzerland.
Switzerland, CERN
At CERN, Bell's official specialization was particle physics and quantum field theory, but his true passion remained the theory of quantum mechanics, and it was his achievements in this field that brought him his main fame. Inspired by Bohm's ideas (see Interpretation of Bohm), Bell continued his analysis of the EPR paradox and in 1964 formulated his inequalities. Bell's original formulation was an idealized concept on the basis of which inequalities for physical experiments were constructed. These are, first of all, the Bell - Clauser - Horn and Clauser - Horn - Shimoni - Holt inequalities (English)Russian .
Describing the situation that had developed by the mid-1960s around the EPR paradox in particular and the theory of quantum physics in general, Bell ironically calls it the “Why worry?” approach. (English: Why worry?):
It may be said that by trying to look beyond the formal predictions of quantum theory, we are only creating trouble for ourselves. It is useless to look beyond the observed phenomena: is this precisely the lesson that should have been learned before the creation of quantum mechanics became possible? Moreover, this specific example once again teaches us that the entire experimental design must be considered as a single whole. We should not try to analyze it in separate parts, with separate portions of uncertainty. By resisting the impulse to analyze and localize, we can avoid mental discomfort.
This, as I understand it, is the orthodox view as formulated by Bohr in his response to Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen. Many are very satisfied with it.Original text (English)
It can be discussed that in trying to see behind the formal predictions of quantum theory we are just making trouble for ourselves. Was not precisely this the lesson that had to be learned before quantum mechanics could be constructed, that it is futile to try to see behind the phenomena observed? Moreover we learn again from this particular example that we must not try to analyze it into separate pieces, with separately localized quotas of indetermination. By resisting the impulse to analyze and localize, mental discomfort can be avoided.
This is, as far as I understand it, the orthodox view, as formulated by Bohr in his reply to Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen. Many people are quite content with it.
Bell was not alone in his doubts about the Copenhagen interpretation, but he was the first who dared to break the taboo on the analysis of the physical picture of the world offered by this interpretation, and on further analysis of the EPR paradox. John Clauser, who pioneered the experimental testing of Bell's inequalities, later recalled that by asking questions about the EPR paradox in the 1950s, he would likely have made himself unemployed. Questions about the foundations of quantum mechanics at that time, according to him, were a sign of bad taste
