Fred, *you* should carefully study *my* rules of *my* game. If you’re any good at maths you will realise that there’s no point in trying to win my challenge.
And let me remind everyone of Joy’s recent published words
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9418997Joy Christian wrote: That is not to say that Bell’s theorem [11] does not have a sound mathematical core. When stated as a mathematical theorem in probability theory, there can be no doubt about its validity. But my work on the subject [2]–[6] does not challenge this mathematical core, if it is viewed as a piece of mathematics. What it challenges are the metaphysical conclusions regarding locality and realism derived from that mathematical core. My work thus draws a sharp distinction between the mathematical core of Bell’s theorem and the metaphysical conclusions derived from it.
Here, I quote from his “Reply” to my “Comment” on his paper. In my “Comment” I formulate a mathematical theorem in the field of probability theory. Joy, he says, does not doubt its validity. What his work does, he says, is to challenge metaphysical conclusions derived from it.
Fine by me. I’m a mathematician working in probability theory and statistics, while he has a PhD in the philosophy of science / foundations of physics. I too think it is very important to draw a careful distinction between mathematics on the one hand, metaphysics on the other hand. I hope that mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers of science will do their best to learn one another’s languages and collaborate for the greater good of science as a whole, for the benefit of everyone.