After Bell

We analyze foundational consequences of recently announced loophole free tests of violation of Bell’s inequality. We consider two interpretations of these remarkable experiments. By the conventional one “Einstein was wrong and Bohr was right, there is spooky action at a distance, quantum realism is incompatible with locality.” However, we show that it is still possible to treat quantum mechanics without appealing to nonlocality or denying realism. We hope that this note will attract attention of the experts in quantum foundations and convince them to come with their own comments on the final Bell’s test.

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