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by Simon321 2073 days ago
This would be a 'local hidden variable' theory. According to wikipedia these have largely been ruled out:

Most advocates of the hidden-variables idea believe that experiments have ruled out local hidden variables

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem#Bell_inequali...
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goldenkey 2073 days ago
It seems that hidden variables have always been made to be simple hidden states. But we now know about RNGs and seeds and such.

A shared RNG seed is essentially entanglement.

This delves more into complex hidden variables, that normal analyses ignore: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC137470/

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kgwgk 2073 days ago
> A shared RNG seed is essentially entanglement.

Classical entanglement, which is not good enough to explain quantum entanglement.

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aeternum 2072 days ago
It can explain quantum entanglement, seems to be a version of superdeterminism.

In QM, experiments show us that entangled particle spin probabilities vary non-linearly with the angle between detectors (even if those detectors are far apart).

This means that either: 1) locality is broken.. state is somehow transmitted faster than the speed of light between particles. 2) realism is broken.. god plays dice with the universe

But there's also a 3rd, which is: the choice of detector angle is not an independent variable (a necessary assumption for Bell's inequalities to hold).. instead the state of the universe is pre-determined and the experimenter's choice of detector angle is known beforehand so there is no need for spooky action at a distance. This isn't a very popular explanation since it provides no reason as to why we don't see this weird lack of independence elsewhere.

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kgwgk 2072 days ago
Well, if superdeterminism is an explanation there is nothing to explain ;-)
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