ANUSHREE ROY⁺ and U MOHIDEEN

Department of Physics, University of California, Riverside, CA-92521, USA

⁺ Present address: Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur 721 302, India

Abstract.

After recalling proofs of the Bell inequality based on the assumptions of separability and of noncontextuality, the most general noncontextual contrapositive conditional probabilities consistent with the Aspect experiment are constructed. In general these probabilities are not all positive.

Keywords: Casimir force; zero point energy; atomic force microscope.

Pacs Nos. 12.20.Fv; 61.16.Ch