DISCUSSION - HEALEY ON THE AHARONOV-BOHM EFFECT

Richard Healey (1997) argues that the Aharonov-Bohm effect demands the recognition of either nonlocal or nonseparable physics in much the wa y that violations of Bell's inequality do. A careful examination of th e effect and the arguments, though, shows that Healey's interpretation of the Aharonov-Bohm effect depends critically on his interpretation of gauge theories, and that the analogy with violations of Bell's ineq ualities fails.