Are Bell's conditions for local realism general enough?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22833v1
• Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:59:06 GMT
• Title: Are Bell's conditions for local realism general enough?
• Authors: Emilio Santos,
• Abstract summary: I criticize Bell's proposed response of detectors to signals as extremely idealized.<n>More physical conditions are proposed, whence a realistic local model of an optical experiment is possible.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Bell conditions for local realism are critically revisited. In particular for optical experiments I criticize Bell's proposed response of detectors to signals as extremely idealized. More physical conditions are proposed, whence a realistic local model of an optical experiment is possible which violates the Clauser-Horne (Bell) inequality. The possibility rests on the existence of a coincidence-time loophole in the experiments.

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