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Experimental Non-Violation of the Bell Inequality

Quantum Physics 2018-05-23 v1

Abstract

A finite non-classical framework for physical theory is described which challenges the conclusion that the Bell Inequality has been shown to have been violated experimentally, even approximately. This framework postulates the universe as a deterministic locally causal system evolving on a measure-zero fractal-like geometry IUI_U in cosmological state space. Consistent with the assumed primacy of IUI_U, and pp-adic number theory, a non-Euclidean (and hence non-classical) metric gpg_p is defined on cosmological state space, where pp is a large but finite Pythagorean prime. Using number-theoretic properties of spherical triangles, the inequalities violated experimentally are shown to be gpg_p-distant from the CHSH inequality, whose violation would rule out local realism. This result fails in the singular limit p=p=\infty, at which gpg_p is Euclidean. Broader implications are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1709.01069,
  title  = {Experimental Non-Violation of the Bell Inequality},
  author = {T. N. Palmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.01069},
  year   = {2018}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1709.00329