Observables have No Value: A no-go Theorem for Position and Momentum Observables [Book Review]

Foundations of Physics 37 (8):1243-1252 (2007)
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Abstract

The Bell–Kochen–Specker contradiction is presented using continuous observables in infinite dimensional Hilbert space. It is shown that the assumption of the existence of putative values for position and momentum observables for one single particle is incompatible with quantum mechanics

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