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Quantum Foundations Entanglement Theory Quantum Correlations

A Live Alternative to Quantum Spooks

arXiv

Authors: Huw Price, Ken Wharton

Year

2015

Paper ID

26547

Status

Preprint

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104

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Quantum weirdness has been in the news recently, thanks to an ingenious new experiment by a team led by Roland Hanson, at the Delft University of Technology. Much of the coverage presents the experiment as good (even conclusive) news for spooky action-at-a-distance, and bad news for local realism. We point out that this interpretation ignores an alternative, namely that the quantum world is retrocausal. We conjecture that this loophole is missed because it is confused for superdeterminism on one side, or action-at-a-distance itself on the other. We explain why it is different from these options, and why it has clear advantages, in both cases.

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Quantum weirdness has been in the news recently, thanks to an ingenious new experiment by a team led by Roland Hanson, at the Delft University of Technology.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:1510.06712 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06712 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06712

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