Dear Jonathan
"Zeilinger raised one of your points at a conference and cited Albert's own comment in the page leaf to a colleague about doubts"
Can you recall which doubts specifically and whether Zeillinger felt they were answered?
Here is a more detailed explanation of why I think Bell's Theorem is built on false assumptions: Take two entangled particles or photons A and B, sensed by two far-flung sensors S1 and S2 respectively.
CASE 1: In an ideal and totally deterministic world the correlation between readings S1A and S1B will be 1
CASE 2: In a world where A and B are never random from start to finish, but wherre the state of the sensors is random, S1A and S2B will correlate to 1/2 (I think!?)
CASE 3: In Bell's Theoretical world, both A and B as well as S1 and S2 are random.
I feel the error is in assuming it is case 3 applies while using the experimetal results of CASE 2. Does this make any sense? No dice?
Of course an open mind is necessary, but in my situation I need to gather all my scattered energies to finish the task I set myself to complete and simulate the model I have started, Beautiful Universe. In that model there is no time dimension (so much for spacetime as well as Steve'smatter-time unification) - my fqxi essay this year represents burning my bridges to concentrate on the task ahead! Eric Reiter's experiments fit in perfectly with my model, hence my approbation. Of course I may be totally deluded, but let me have my fun! And time to hear some Robeson! Its a privilage to know someone who has been in the same recording studio!
Be well, dear friend,
Vladimir