Exclusion of Time in Mermin's Proof of Bell-Type Inequalities

摘要

Mermin states that his nontechnical version of Bell's theorem stands and isnot invalidated by time and setting dependent instrument parameters as claimedin one of our previous papers. We identify deviations from well-establishedprotocol in probability theory as well as mathematical contradictions inMermin's argument and show that Mermin's conclusions are therefore not valid:his proof does not go forward if certain possible time dependencies are takeninto account.