On the polemic assessment of what Bell did

Justo Pastor Lambare

Published: 2025/6/28

Abstract

Despite their Nobel Prize-winning empirical falsification, the interpretation of the Bell inequality remains a subject of controversy. This article discusses and attempts to clarify the reasons John S. Bell and A. Einstein claimed that quantum entanglement implies puzzling nonlocal correlations that Einstein famously termed ``spooky action at a distance.'' The issue remains highly controversial and has roughly divided the scientific community into localists and nonlocalists. Without taking a stance for either side in the long-standing, polarized debate, we examine Bell's actual argument, highlighting the differences between his approach and the current orthodoxy.

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