The Schrodinger-Furry Hypothesis

Unfortunately, Kocher and Commins only made measurements for relative angles of 0° and 90° between the transmission axes of the polarizers and, in addition, the transmission characteristics of their polarizers did not satisfy the criterion illustrated in Figure 4 for a satisfactory test of the BCHSH inequality. However, Clauser was able to use their result to demonstrate the inadequacy of semiclassical radiation theory in this situation and to show that the Schrodinger-Furry hypothesis was not tenable. 

Finally, it was observed that moving each polarizer up to 6.5 m from the source, i.e., to four coherence lengths of the wave packet associated with the lifetime of the intermediate state of the cascade (5 nsec), produced no change in the results, thus providing further strong evidence against the Schrodinger-Furry hypothesis. 

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