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MERLIN SCIENCE — Quantum Mechanics Confirmed as Fundamental Ontology by Bell Violations — E8 Intelligence Research

Andrew Stewart Caldin

Published Sep 24, 2026• 0 citations
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The finding is this: the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics, building on the work of Aspect, Clauser, and Zeilinger, along with recent MIT single-photon experiments, confirms quantum mechanics as the fundamental ontology. There are no hidden variables, and no classical substrate beneath it. Bell's inequality is violated, and the mathematics is closed. The context here is the decades-long debate over whether quantum weirdness is real or merely an incomplete description of a deeper, classical reality. The experiments settle it. The correlation function for photon polarization is cos squared of the angle, and the Bell parameter reaches the Tsirelson bound of two times the square root of two, roughly 2.828, against a classical ceiling of two. That factor of root two is not arbitrary. It is the ratio of the diagonal of a unit square to its side, and it appears directly in the crystallographic root system B2, which is the square lattice. The cos squared law itself encodes fourfold rotational symme Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com

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10.5281/zenodo.22930980

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