Bell was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. When he was 11 years old, he decided to be a scientist, and at 16 graduated from Belfast Technical High School. Bell then attended the Queen's University of Belfast, where, in 1948, he obtained a bachelor's degree in experimental physics and, a year later, a bachelor's degree in mathematical physics. He went on to complete a PhD in physics at the University of Birmingham in 1956, specialising in nuclear physics and quantum field theory. In 1954, he married Mary Ross, also a physicist, whom he had met while working on accelerator physics at Malvern, UK.[10]: 139 Bell became a vegetarian in his teen years.[11] According to his wife, Bell was an atheist.[12]
Bell was a proponent of pilot wave theory.[15] In 1987, inspired by Ghirardi–Rimini–Weber theory, he also advocated collapse theories.[16] He said about the interpretation of quantum mechanics: "Well, you see, I don't really know. For me it's not something where I have a solution to sell!"[17]
There is some disagreement regarding what Bell's inequality—in conjunction with the EPR analysis—can be said to imply. Bell held that not only local hidden variables, but any and all local theoretical explanations must conflict with the predictions of quantum theory: "It is known that with Bohm's example of EPR correlations, involving particles with spin, there is an irreducible nonlocality."[21]: 196 According to an alternative interpretation, not all local theories in general, but only local hidden-variables theories (or "local realist" theories) have shown to be incompatible with the predictions of quantum theory.
Critique of von Neumann's proof
Bell's interest in hidden variables was motivated by the existence in the formalism of quantum mechanics of a "movable boundary" between the quantum system and the classical apparatus:
A possibility is that we find exactly where the boundary lies. More plausible to me is that we will find that there is no boundary. ... The wave functions would prove to be a provisional or incomplete description of the quantum-mechanical part, of which an objective account would become possible. It is this possibility, of a homogeneous account of the world, which is for me the chief motivation of the study of the so-called "hidden variable" possibility.[21]: 30
Bell was impressed that in the formulation of David Bohm's nonlocal hidden-variable theory, no such boundary is needed, and it was this which sparked his interest in the field of research. Bell also criticized the standard formalism of quantum mechanics on the grounds of lack of physical precision:
For the good books known to me are not much concerned with physical precision. This is clear already from their vocabulary. Here are some words which, however legitimate and necessary in application, have no place in a formulation with any pretension to physical precision: system, apparatus, environment, microscopic, macroscopic, reversible, irreversible, observable, information, measurement. ... On this list of bad words from good books, the worst of all is "measurement".[21]: 215
But if he were to thoroughly explore the viability of Bohm's theory, Bell needed to answer the challenge of the so-called impossibility proofs against hidden variables. Bell addressed these in a paper entitled "On the Problem of Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics".[22] (Bell had actually written this paper before his paper on the EPR paradox, but it did not appear until two years later, in 1966, due to publishing delays.[10]: 144 ) Here he showed that John von Neumann's argument[23] does not prove the impossibility of hidden variables, as was widely claimed, due to its reliance on a physical assumption that is not valid for quantum mechanics—namely, that the probability-weighted average of the sum of observable quantities equals the sum of the average values of each of the separate observable quantities.[10]: 141 This flaw in von Neumann's proof had been previously discovered by Grete Hermann in 1935, but did not become common knowledge until after it was rediscovered by Bell.[24] Bell reportedly said, "The proof of von Neumann is not merely false but foolish!"[25]: 88 In this same work, Bell showed that a stronger effort at such a proof (based upon Gleason's theorem) also fails to eliminate the hidden-variables program.
However, in 2010, Jeffrey Bub published an argument that Bell (and, implicitly, Hermann) had misconstrued von Neumann's proof, saying that it does not attempt to prove the absolute impossibility of hidden variables, and is actually not flawed, after all.[26] (Thus, it was the physics community as a whole that had misinterpreted von Neumann's proof as applying universally.) Bub provides evidence that von Neumann understood the limits of his proof, but there is no record of von Neumann attempting to correct the near universal misinterpretation which lingered for over 30 years and exists to some extent to this day. Von Neumann's proof does not in fact apply to contextual hidden variables, as in Bohm's theory.[27]
Conclusions from experimental tests
In 1972 an experiment was conducted that, when extrapolated to ideal detector efficiencies, showed a violation of Bell's inequality. It was the first of many such experiments. Bell himself concluded from these experiments that "It now seems that the non-locality is deeply rooted in quantum mechanics itself and will persist in any completion."[21]: 132 This, according to Bell, also implied that quantum theory is not locally causal and cannot be embedded into any locally causal theory. Bell regretted that results of the tests did not agree with the concept of local hidden variables:
For me, it is so reasonable to assume that the photons in those experiments carry with them programs, which have been correlated in advance, telling them how to behave. This is so rational that I think that when Einstein saw that, and the others refused to see it, he was the rational man. The other people, although history has justified them, were burying their heads in the sand. ... So for me, it is a pity that Einstein's idea doesn't work. The reasonable thing just doesn't work."[28]: 84
Bell seemed to have become resigned to the notion that future experiments would continue to agree with quantum mechanics and violate his inequality. Referring to the Bell test experiments, he remarked:
It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency ..."[21]: 109
Some people continue to believe that agreement with Bell's inequalities might yet be saved. They argue that in the future much more precise experiments could reveal that one of the known loopholes, for example the so-called "fair sampling loophole", had been biasing the interpretations. Most mainstream physicists are highly skeptical about all these "loopholes", admitting their existence but continuing to believe that Bell's inequalities must fail.
Bell remained interested in objective 'observer-free' quantum mechanics.[29] He felt that at the most fundamental level, physical theories ought not to be concerned with observables, but with 'be-ables': "The beables of the theory are those elements which might correspond to elements of reality, to things which exist. Their existence does not depend on 'observation'."[21]: 174 He remained impressed with Bohm's hidden variables as an example of such a scheme and he attacked the more subjective alternatives such as the Copenhagen interpretation.[21]: 92, 133, 181
Teaching special theory of relativity
Bell and his wife, Mary Ross Bell, also a physicist, contributed substantially to the physics of particle accelerators, and with numerous young theorists at CERN, Bell developed particle physics itself. An overview of this work is available in the volume of collected works edited by Mary Bell, Kurt Gottfried, and Martinus Veltman.[30]
Apart from his particle physics research, Bell often raised an issue of special relativity comprehension, and although there is only one written report on this topic available ("How to teach special relativity"),[21]: 67–80 this was a critical subject to him. Bell admired Einstein's contribution to special relativity, but warned in 1985 "Einstein's approach is ... pedagogically dangerous, in my opinion".[31]: ix In 1989 on the occasion of the centenary of the Lorentz-FitzGerald body contraction Bell writes "A great deal of nonsense has been written about the FitzGerald contraction".[30] Bell preferred to think of Lorentz-FitzGerald contraction as a phenomenon that is real and observable as a property of a material body, which was also Einstein's opinion, but in Bell's view Einstein's approach leaves a lot of room for misinterpretation. This situation and the background of Bell's position is described in detail by his collaborator Johann Rafelski in the textbook "Relativity Matters" (2017).[31] In order to combat misconceptions surrounding Lorentz-FitzGerald body contraction Bell adopted and promoted a relativistic thought experiment which became widely known as Bell's spaceship paradox.
Bell died unexpectedly of a cerebral hemorrhage in Geneva in 1990.[32][33][34] Unknown to Bell, he had reportedly been nominated for a Nobel Prize that year.[35]: 3 [36]: 155 [1]: 374 His contribution to the issues raised by EPR was significant. Some regard him as having demonstrated the failure of local realism (local hidden variables). Bell's own interpretation is that locality itself had met its demise.
Legacy
In 2008, the John Stewart Bell Prize was created by the Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control at the University of Toronto.[37] The prize is awarded every other year for significant contributions first published during the six preceding years. The award recognizes major advances relating to the foundations of quantum mechanics and to the applications of these principles. In 2009, the first award was presented by Alain Aspect to Nicolas Gisin for his theoretical and experimental work on foundations and applications of quantum physics — notably quantum nonlocality, quantum cryptography, and quantum teleportation.[38]
At the CERN site in Meyrin, close to Geneva, there is a street called Route Bell in honour of John Stewart Bell.
In 2016, his colleague from CERN, Reinhold Bertlmann, wrote a lengthy piece, "Bell's Universe: A Personal Recollection",[39] explaining in some detail his amazement at finding out about Bell's paper on Bertlmann's socks, in which Bell compared the EPR paradox with socks.
A day was named after him, referring to the date he released Bell's Theorem, 4 November.[40]
Northern Ireland
Since 2015, a street has been named Bell's Theorem Crescent in his city of birth, Belfast.[41]
The John Bell House, named in his honour, finished construction in 2016 and houses over 400 students in Belfast city centre.[42]
The pedestrian entrance to the Olympia leisure centre in Belfast located 200 meters from Bell's childhood home is named the "John Stewart Bell Entrance" in honour of the local man.[43]
There is a blue plaque commemorating John Stewart Bell in Queen's university main campus
There is a blue plaque commemorating John Stewart Bell at his childhood home in Tates Avenue in Belfast
In 2017 the Institute of Physics commissioned classical composer Matthew Whiteside's Quartet No 4 (Entangled) to be performed at the 2018 NI Science Festival inspired by Bell's work;[45] the piece went on to become the title track on Whiteside's second album and was the inspiration for a short film by Marisa Zanotti.[46]
^Bell, Mary (2002). "Some Reminiscences". In Bertlmann, Reinhold A.; Zeilinger, Anton (eds.). Quantum [Un]speakables. The Frontiers Collection. Berlin: Springer. pp. 3–5. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-05032-3_1. ISBN978-3-642-07664-0. Although an atheist for most of his life, while at Queen's University [John Bell] had many discussions with a Catholic friend, Denis McConalogue, about the devil, and even attended some meetings of the Student Christian Movement for the sake of argument.
^Zeh, H. D., "John Bell’s Varying Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: Memories and Comments", in Mary Bell, Shan Gao (ed.), Quantum Nonlocality and Reality: 50 Years of Bell’s Theorem, (Cambridge University Press, 2016) ISBN978-1-107-10434-1
^John S. Bell, interview in The Ghost in the Atom: A Discussion of the Mysteries of Quantum Physics (1986) edited by P. C. W. Davies and Julian R. Brown
^Sutton, Christine (4 November 2014). "Fifty years of Bell's theorem". CERN official website. CERN. Retrieved 8 October 2019. A paper by John Bell published on 4 November 1964 laid the foundations for the modern field of quantum-information science
^Soler, Léna (2009). "The Convergence of Transcendental Philosophy and Quantum Physics: Grete Henry-Hermann's 1935 Pioneering Proposal". In M. Bitbol; P. Kerszberg; J. Petitot (eds.). Constituting Objectivity. The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Vol. 74. Springer. pp. 329–344. doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9510-8_20. ISBN978-1-4020-9509-2.
^Bacciagaluppi, Guido; Crull, Elise (2009). "Heisenberg (and Schrödinger, and Pauli) on hidden variables". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 40 (4): 374–382. Bibcode:2009SHPMP..40..374B. CiteSeerX10.1.1.484.3421. doi:10.1016/j.shpsb.2009.08.004. S2CID13140289. Non-contextual hidden variables are those that fix values or probabilities or expectation values for all quantum mechanical observables, independent of any experimental context. The impossibility proofs of von Neumann (1932), Gleason (1957), and Kochen and Specker (1967) refer to this kind of hidden variables.
^ abBell, Mary; Gottfried, Kurt; Veltman, Martinus, eds. (1995). Quantum Mechanics, High Energy Physics and Accelerators: Selected Papers of John S. Bell (With Commentary). World Scientific Series in 20th Century Physics. Vol. 9. Singapore: World Scientific. Bibcode:1995qmhe.book.....B. doi:10.1142/2611. ISBN9810221150.
^"John Stewart Bell Prize". Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control. University of Toronto. Archived from the original on 4 June 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
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