Another Triumph of Locality: Colliding Histories Skew Handshakes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05455v1
• Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:39:07 GMT
• Title: Another Triumph of Locality: Colliding Histories Skew Handshakes
• Abstract summary: Bell's theorem is widely interpreted as the death knell for local reality.<n>This chapter serves as a non-technical front-end to 'Explaining Bell Locally'
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• Abstract: From gravity to electromagnetism, apparent action at a distance has always been resolved by deeper, local explanations. Yet today, Bell's theorem is widely interpreted as the death knell for local reality. In this chapter, I present the theorem in accessible terms, examine the three main strategies that attempt to preserve hidden variables, and argue that they share a common defect: the attempt to explain the quantum from the classical rather than the other way around. In unitary quantum mechanics, classicality itself is given a quantum account, and, when the Bell scenario is formulated in the Heisenberg picture, a strictly local explanation emerges. This chapter serves as a non-technical front-end to 'Explaining Bell Locally' (Proc. R. Soc. A).

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