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Local realism is dead, long live local realism?

Rebecca M. Holmes

Published Jun 1, 2017• 11 citations

Abstract

Rebecca Holmes describes groundbreaking experiments that finally closed the long-standing loopholes in Bell tests, suggesting the end of the road for local realism. But could local realism yet live on?

DOI: 10.1088/2058-7058/30/6/41

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