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Another Triumph of Locality: Colliding Histories Skew Handshakes

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arXiv:2604.05455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: From gravity to electromagnetism, apparent action at a distance has always been resolved by deeper, local explanations. Yet today, Bell's theorem is widely interpreted as the death knell for local reality. In this chapter, I present the theorem in accessible terms, examine the three main strategies that attempt to preserve hidden variables, and argue that they share a common defect: the attempt to explain the quantum from the classical rather than

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Quantum Physics [Submitted on 7 Apr 2026] Another Triumph of Locality: Colliding Histories Skew Handshakes Charles Alexandre Bédard From gravity to electromagnetism, apparent action at a distance has always been resolved by deeper, local explanations. Yet today, Bell's theorem is widely interpreted as the death knell for local reality. In this chapter, I present the theorem in accessible terms, examine the three main strategies that attempt to preserve hidden variables, and argue that they share a common defect: the attempt to explain the quantum from the classical rather than the other way around. In unitary quantum mechanics, classicality itself is given a quantum account, and, when the Bell scenario is formulated in the Heisenberg picture, a strictly local explanation emerges. This chapter serves as a non-technical front-end to 'Explaining Bell Locally' (Proc. R. Soc. A). Comments: 16 pages. Forthcoming in 'Bold Conjectures, Volume II: Essays Across Physics', edited by Logan Chipkin, Conjecture Press, 2026 Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2604.05455 [quant-ph] (or arXiv:2604.05455v1 [quant-ph] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2604.05455 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Charles Alexandre Bédard [view email] [v1] Tue, 7 Apr 2026 05:39:07 UTC (20 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: quant-ph < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-04 References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)

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