Avoiding Entanglement

 How to Avoid Entanglement 

Since 1972 many ambitious Bell Inequality experiments to test "locality" and "causality" have given bizzare nonsensical results.   What should we conclude?  Can we accept this?

I am referring to the hundreds of "Bell Experiments" (Bell's Inequality, 1964).   These difficult optical experiments were proposed in 1969  "Proposed experiment to test local hidden-variable theories".  Each new experiment is more accurate and uses better instruments.  Here is a list of the most notable ones through 2018.  The results are always the same, bizzare and nonsensical.  They violate common sense logic and reality.  Our greatest physics experts agree, it's incomprehensible!

Should we throw up our hands in defeat, and just accept that we live in an incomprehensible "Quantum" universe?

Or should we re-examine the methods, assumptions, and data?

Philosopher and author M. Strevens,  The Knowledge Machine says: stick with the measurements.  

M. Strevens,  The Knowledge Machine, 2021

Only published, peer reviewed data matters, nothing else.  Philosophy, religion, even common sense must yield to experimental data.  Strevens calls this "The iron rule."  Just look at the early history of science.  Only hard experimental data leads to the advance of knowledge while money, power, politics, even "rational arguments" can lead us in circles.

New experimental data is mind-blowing at first but eventually becomes part of our common accepted worldview.   It was mind-blowing when humans discovered the big bang from measurements of the stars.  It was shocking when human evolution was discovered.  The motion of the continents was incomprehensible.  No rational human could possibly imagine that our massive rocky continents are floating around, colliding like boats.   But today it is commonly accepted as fact.

If our best experiments give nonsense results...

Then it's time to examine our assumptions.

When we assume light is made of indivisible particles, we get bizzare and nonsensical results.   But if we start with the assumption that light is an electromagnetic (EM) field, the problems disappear.  So it's not the experimental measurements -- it's our assumptions that are wrong.  Field Theory from the 1950's (Julian Schwinger) does not produce violations of causality or logic.  So maybe Strevens' iron rule is not always the best one.  Let's follow logic and rethink our assumptions.   Experiments are not wrong.  let's reject interpretations that are wrong.