Parallel lives: A local-realistic interpretation of "nonlocal" boxes
Abstract
We carry out a thought experiment in an imaginary world. Our world is both local and realistic, yet it violates a Bell inequality more than does quantum theory. This serves to debunk the myth that equates local realism with local hidden variables in the simplest possible manner. Along the way, we reinterpret the celebrated 1935 argument of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen, and come to the conclusion that they were right in their questioning the completeness of the Copenhagen version of quantum theory, provided one believes in a local-realistic universe. Throughout our journey, we strive to explain our views from first principles, without expecting mathematical sophistication nor specialized prior knowledge from the reader.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1709.10016,
title = {Parallel lives: A local-realistic interpretation of "nonlocal" boxes},
author = {Gilles Brassard and Paul Raymond-Robichaud},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.10016},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
13 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. No changes in conclusions, but the correct attribution of each author's contribution is made explicit and minor improvements are made, including to the graphic-novel poster. This should be considered the authoritative version because the version published in Entropy could not be modified to include proper author attributions and we prefer our style over Entropy's