Started October 27, 2004
In June-August 2004 I added some pages to "wikipedia", an online encyclopaedia that is run in a very democratic manner: anyone can contribute and anyone can edit existing pages, though it is wise to first discuss your changes if they are controversial. [January 31, 2005: Sometimes you just can't win! See below. When the majority have got it wrong, democracy is not the best policy.]
Pages I have added or completely replaced include:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BellTestLoopholes
[Now re-directed, but you can still (July 2005) find the original both on other
encyclopaedia sites and in my
user page on wikipedia.]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopholes_in_optical_Bell_test_experiments
[Accidentally left untouched?]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clauser_and_Horne%27s_1974_Bell_test
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHSH_inequality
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments [Now my central page,
though in depleted form that I am not allowed to alter [*]]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_hidden_variable_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_Theorem [Now worthless!
The current version is for those who do not wish to understand, only to
believe!]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_inequalities [Now re-directed]
I have tried to respect the wikipedia policy of giving a "neutral point of view", but under their rules (or is it merely the interpretation of their rules by a certain "Dr Chinese"?) almost all references to my own work have (February 2005) been removed. I hope that nevertheless these pages now give a slightly more useful introduction to the Bell tests than they did before my activities.
October, 2005: After a period in which Dr Chinese et al were reverting every single attempt to get a fair hearing for local realism (by mentioning doubts re the experimental evidence for nonlocality), there now seems some hope of change.
Appeal for
support! Do join in, primarily at present in the Bell's
Theorem, Bell
Test Experiments and associated discussion pages. As mentioned above,
my original pages can still be seen in my
user page.
I think, incidentally, I may have discovered something that ought not to but in
practice may well be having a definite influence on the way my contributions are
being treated. Dr Chinese links to Bell
Test Experiments from http://www.drchinese.com/David/Bell_Theorem_Easy_Math.htm
. Could it be that he does not want his story spoiled? I rather
doubt if it was the intention of the creators of wikipedia that it should be
used in this way. No one person should be able to control the contents,
which should be objective statements of facts. And especially where the
contents are controversial, nobody should ever assume they will remain unchanged.