Caroline H Thompson

:"For the American film director, see Caroline Thompson."Caroline H. Thompson (1943–8 February 2006} was a British computer scientist specialising in theoretical physics. Caroline H. Thompson's noted contribution to physics has been the re-examination of Bell's Theorem, EPR Paradox, and Aspect's Experiment. She has shown that "local realism" is not a dead concept with the implication that a deterministic formulation of quantum mechanics is, at least in principle, theoretically possible.

Ms. Thompson's work does not support "quack" or "fringe" attempts at unification. She was vehemently against being associated with those who, in her opinion, were "quack" or "fringe" elements in physics. But, her theoryFact|date=August 2007 does "open the door" to deterministic formulations which may provide more satisfying, intuitive, and elegant pictures of the atomic (and sub-atomic) world.

References

* [http://freespace.virgin.net/ch.thompson1/CHT2000.htm Mini-autobiography]
* [http://freespace.virgin.net/ch.thompson1/ Caroline Thompson's website]

Published works

* [http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0512141 Homodyne detection and optical parametric amplification: a classical approach applied to proposed "loophole-free" Bell tests]
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0508024 Homodyne detection and parametric down-conversion: a classical approach applied to proposed "loophole-free" Bell tests]
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0210150 The "Chaotic Ball" model,local realism and the Bell test loopholes]
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9912082 Rotational Invariance, Phase Relationships and the Quantum Entanglement Illusion]
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9903066 Subtraction of "accidentals" and the validity of Bell tests]
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9711044 Timing, "Accidentals" and Other Artifacts in EPR Experiments]
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9704045 Timing and Other Artifacts in EPR Experiments]
* [http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9611037 The Chaotic Ball: An Intuitive Analogy for EPR Experiments]

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