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A Realistic Reinterpretation of Non-Locality and State Duality in Quantum Mechanics

Hadi chergui

Published Dec 14, 2025• 0 citations
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For nearly a century, quantum mechanics (QM) has established itself as an incredibly effective tool for predicting the collective movements and statistical distributions of particles. However, its predictive success comes with a major conceptual cost: the apparent abandonment of local realism. When one attempts to apply the quantum formalism at the scale of an individual particle, paradoxes inevitably arise, such as non-locality, state superposition, or wave-particle duality. The central thesis of this document is that these paradoxes are not intrinsic properties of nature, but rather result from an ontological category error. The current formalism applies ensemble statistical laws designed to describe the average behavior of a large number of particles to the scale of the individual, where they are not intended to apply. This undue promotion of statistics to the rank of instantaneous reality leads to a ``magical'' interpretation of statistically balanced phenomena. This article propose a reconsideration of three pillars of the standard quantum interpretation: Firstly, we demonstrate that the violation of Bell’s inequalities can be reinterpreted locally through the principle of Statistical Identity (shared initial orientation), which establishes an equivalence between parallel and sequential measurements, allowing the application of Malus’s law to reproduce the correlations without requiring any non-local influence. second, we show that interferometry does not reveal a superposition of states, but rather involves a deterministic geometric transformation of probability distributions via polarization rotation. Finally, we challenge the standard postulate of simultaneity in the Young's slits. We introduce an ``event-by-event'' formulation where interference fringes emerge from temporal correlations preserved by the non-commutativity of averaging, rather than from the interaction of simultaneous fields. By restoring the distinction between statistical law and individual reality, this work aims to end ``quantum geocentrism'' and lay the foundations for a coherent, local, and realistic Sub-Quantique and Infra-Particules physics.

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10.5281/zenodo.17929338

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