“The EPR claim of an "all values" spread in the coordinate depends on an idealized absolute and exact measurement of p with \Delta p\ = 0. Since this is physically impossible, the claim of "no physical reality" can be negated.”

—  F. J. Duarte

in [Quantum Optics for Engineers, CRC, New York, 2013, 978-1439888537, F. J. Duarte]

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