2023/09/19 by Huw Price, Ken Wharton, Price, Huw +2 · 1 voice
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2309.10969
openalex publication_date 2023/09/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We show that Bell correlations may arise as a special sort of selection artefact, produced by ordinary control of the initial state of the experiments concerned. This accounts for nonlocality, without recourse to any direct spacelike causality or influence. The argument improves an earlier proposal in (arXiv:2101.05370v4 [quant-ph], arXiv:2212.06986 [quant-ph]) in two main respects: (i) in demonstrating its application in a real Bell experiment; and (ii) in avoiding the need for a postulate of retrocausality. This version includes an Appendix, discussing the relation of the proposal to the conclusions of Wood and Spekkens (arXiv:1208.4119 [quant-ph]).