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The statistical results obtained in tests of Bell's inequalities are not demonstrating "Spooky action at a distance." It is because the experiments involve happenings that can result in different outcomes according to the particular circumstances encountered at the time and place of the test. They are the ordinary maybes aka. 'it depends'. Unlike certain states, like a right handed red glove. More akin to throw of a basketball.

Here is an early preview of two papers I've sent to viXra today. They should be listed soon in their History and philosophy of physics archive.

The Unspooky Violation of Bell's Inequalities: Examination of the violation of Bell's inequalities by analogy (improved). The how, why and what Bell's inequalities require and therefore must sometimes be violated in a universe where things happen rather than just exist. Identifying that what happens via a process is not the same as what is predicted just using prior existent traits. Conclusion and recommendations given for locality, realism and spacetime. (File=Unspooky).

The Ideal Recipe vs. Baking Existential cake: is about creation of an objective model of reality. The 'missing' ingredients are identified.(File=Cake), Reference: Tegmark M., 2007, Shut up and calculate, arXiv: Popular Physics 2007

Typo in The Unspooky Violation of Bell's inequalities. Should read -Which does get coffee does not matter.

Bother!

Spoiler Alert

It's a hiddenvariable because it's not accessible through the senses or measuring. Observation and measurement only give relative i.e. measured this way descriptions. Whereas Absolute unmeasured orientation is all existing relations. There is no goes through polarizer A,B or C state. It depends. Passing through the polarizer depends on Absolute orientation and polarizer orientation when particle and polarizer meet.

Given that a particle is a part of what is existing, it has Absolute relation to everything else existing. It does not require relative measurement for its existence or Absolute relation. A measurement result or product, usually given as a value or state is coming into being at measurement. The result is not the same as the unmeasured entity or its Absolute relation.

It makes me think of putting a camera into the 'magic' hat and taking a pplaroid snap. Then pulling the photo out rather than the rabbit. The photo is only coming into being and is known when the photo is taken and revealed, the rabbit pre-exists and is much more than the photo.

1. The 'magic rabbit' does not come into being, upon the photo being seen. Existential rabbit and photo measurement product are different entities.

2. The photo is obtained by a particular measurement process and is a particular viewpoint.

3. The 'magic rabbit' in this situation never leaves the hat but is the source of the measurement product that is formed.

4. There would be no photo of rabbit without the existence of the unseen 'magic rabbit'.

Compare: "Wild', existentially free particle, unmeasured, unperturbed, in Absolute relations that can be fluctuating, the magic rabbit", unknown vs.

Measured, perturbed by measurement, relative to measuring apparatus and method, fixed, no longer changing, outcome, " snapshot photo of the magic rabbit" that's no longer an existentially free particle. Measurement outcome is known.

17 days later

"The Trouble with Magic Rabbits" has been withdrawn on viXra to be replaced with the corrected new paper

Happy Christmas

Change to wording for the next version of the paper. Paragraph concerning the 45 degree difference of door angle

This doorway combination is encountered by rabbits that are at 90 degrees to each other if prepared as an anti-correlated pair. If in this case if one rabbit goes through easily, its orientation closely matching that of the door, the other meets an intermediate between easy and impossible 45 degree misalignment. Gone though 50 % of times the challenge is encountered. With equal misalignment of rabbits and their doorways both are likely to pass through but not as easily as full alignment. The challenge being 22.5 degrees rather than zero and 45 degrees, This gives an increase in matching. However Increasing the misalignment for one rabbit, decreases it for the other giving greater likelihood of a mismatch.

    I have written the corrections and omissions and further explanation of the analogy in a new paper. I hope further correctios aren't necessary. Submitted to viXra just now. I would suggest that you either take a look at the attached pdf or wait for the viXra link rather than read the previous incorrect paper.

    Happy Christmas. were having a thunder storm here.

    Must go.

    It is not necessary to accept that things are not locally real or faster than light communication.

    Violation of Bell's inequalities can be explained by existing things having absolute orientations in absolute, uni-temporal (same time everywhere) space.

    Which is different from spacetime, semblance produced by the observers from signals received at their location.

    Observation products inhabit spacetime. Existing things, at all scales ,unseen, inhabit absolute uni-temporal space.

    The outcomes obtained are consequence of the relation of absolute orientation when the existing things meet. When for existing things is absolute.

    I hope you enjoy the latest extended, improved and corrected paper. As always feedback appreciated. Happy Christmas time.

    Basketball: Basket (scores) only come into being as the ball is thrown though the hoop) Failure to make a basket score might be noted. They too only come into being as the ball is thrown, but missing the hoop. Basket scores are not basket balls coming into being. The existential ball isn't really in a goes through and doesn't go through state prior to being thrown and a relation to hoop being established.

    Schrödinger's cat: Cat encountering poison is like basket ball going through hoop; The existential relationship outcome. Opening the box and noting the condition of the animal is like writing on the score card. The score- like, state outcome has come into existence upon box opening, preceded by the existential condition of the animal.

    Extract from most recent paper that can be found at http://viXra.org/abs/2212.0182

    "In a relativistic spacetime, events at spacelike separation are taken to have no temporal order. Any system of coordinates will assign time coordinates to each of any pair of events, but, if the events are spacelike separated, the time coordinates assigned to a pair of events at spacelike separation will differ in their ordering, depending on which reference frame is being employed. If we take all of these reference frames to be physically on a par, it must be concluded that there is no temporal order between the events, as relations that are not relativistically invariant have no physical significance". [1.][1.]Myrvold, Wayne, Marco Genovese, and Abner Shimony, "Bell's Theorem", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.),

    URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/bell-theorem./

    The issue of non simultaneity of same events seen by different observers is not relevant to the relation of existing rabbit and door or existing particle and apparatus. As they, the existing entities, are not within space-time but exist unseen within absolute uni-temporal space.

    Space-time is relevant to observation products which are categorically different from things that are existing independent of observation.

    When and where things happen, and the absolute relations between existing things in uni-temporal space is unknown but they are unitary and unambiguous, as there is only one time to be existing at, Uni-temporal Now.

    The result not found-where does it go? It is never produced, so can't go /be anywhere. Occam's razor casts doubt (a great deal) upon a 'Many worlds' multiverse explanation.

    Why rabbits and doorways

    To be clear rabbits and movable walkways are representing photon polarization and movable doorways represent polarizers with changeable orientation. For facilitation of visualization of the coming together of polarizer and wave component of a photon and what will occur. For some people the analogy will be helpful for others an unnecessary layer of abstraction.

    Rabbits and doorways. The basic apparatus

    Set up similar to the doorways used in the paper called 'The unspooky violation of Bell's inequalities', but a suitable size for rabbits. Rectangular doorways are fixed into movable walls, allowing the door to be rotated. Rabbits are set moving in opposite directions, along fenced pathway to door from central point. A pair of rabbits are used in this way for each test. A movable barricade behind each rabbit, (or assistant's hand) can be used to prevent rabbits retracing path back to center.

    Rabbits in space

    Existential rabbit and existential doorway have an absolute orientation. Which is their unmeasured and unknown spatial orientation relation to all other existing things in the environment. How it appears to, the observation product generated by, an astronaut observer is a relative viewpoint.

    (How can absolute orientation relate to, what is considered by mainstream physics, a point-like photon particle? There is a wave component associated with a photon that can account for wave like behavior. That wave can have an absolute orientation.)

    What is important for a rabbit getting through a doorway is the relation between their absolute orientation, (rabbit-door), upon meeting. Non simultaneity for different observers is irrelevant to the coming together of existing things unseen in uni-temporal absolute space.

    Imagine now the pathway the rabbits are on is fully rotate-able independent of the doorways.

    Lets say this is a blind test and the result noting experimenter doesn't know anything about the rabbits being used. He only hears a noise such as a beep as a sensor in the floor is activated, or jingle bells being rung as rabbit passes by them upon entering the room beyond the doorway. Representing only knowing the outcome of particle test, and not the condition of the particle before testing.

    A practicality, an attractive stimulus beyond doorway should encourage passing through. Eg. food or other rabbits.

    Passes doorway, yes or no, is a score-like result added to model of the universe. It is not appearance of an existential rabbit in the universe. Likewise the particle test results are new, but they happen because of the relation of existential particle and apparatus. The particle is not becoming existentially real because of the result.

    Preparation of rabbits

    Rabbits can be prepared to be a correlated (test outcome0 pair.

    In which case their walkways are level with each other. Meaning the rabbits approach the door at the same angle of approach. eg. Flat horizontal floors and vertical doors, or orientations giving the same relation relative to each other, allow both rabbits prepared have same orientations pass through. If both of the rabbits orientation is at 90 degrees to vertical because of a tilted walkway both will be stopped by the vertical doors.

    The rabbits can be prepared as an anti correlated 9test outcome) pair.

    In which case their walkways are at 90 degrees relative to each other. A pair of rabbits prepared to be anti-correlated will both pass though 90 degree difference in orientation doors, if their own rabbit orientation if sufficiently aligned. Either going through means the other goes through. Both fail to pass through if their own orientation is sufficiently misaligned. Either not going through means the other does not go through.

    For 90 degree separation of door angle and 90 degree difference in rabbit angle there can be exact alignment or exact misalignment as we don't know which situation will occur, The 90 degree door may get a 0 degree or a 90 degree rabbit lets say. Both will pass or both will miss.

    it is not my intention to describe what Bell's inequality violation looks like for each angle difference in orientation. As some critics seem to expect. The hypothesis though not explicitly stated as 'the hypothesis,' is that a sinusoidal rather than linear outcome of matched counting will be found. It was not necessary for me to discuss prediction for any particular angle combinations, I just thought then interesting cases. The 90 degree case shown above could/ ?should be included. This is a method/methods and apparatus for bringing together absolute orientations

    Given in response to the declaration that 'You cannot violate Bell's inequality with macroscopic animals" Wolfgang Sturm

    I think the analogy is ridiculous but not impossible. Care must be taken to ensure the only difference between tests is the difficulty of traversing doorway. To avoid interference of animal psychology on the results. Things like how well fed, ambient sounds, familiarity with the apparatus and so on.

    The correlation of pairs at creation of the pairs, alone means there has to be correlated or anti-correlated outcomes for pairs at 0, 90,180 and a special relation outcome for 45 degrees [ignoring experimental errors in all cases] We have no measurement that shows their relation to all that's existing including each other and doors but the absolute orientation is nonetheless. Existing things, unseen and unmeasured have absolute orientation making the pattern of all existing at unitemporal Now. Other than the special cases mentioned the outcomes for other pairs of angles are uncorrelated. There are 4 possible outcomes 1,1 match,1,0 mismatch 0,1 mismatch and 0,0 match. lets say 1 is a pass through, 0 is stopped. The outcome is not entirely equally random between the given possible outcomes. The angle of the door affects the ease or difficulty of passing through presented. When they meet. If it is easy-ish i,e. close to easy there will be more 1s in the mix of outcomes .If it is hard i.e. closer to impossible there will be more 0s in the mix of outcomes. This gives the s shaped pattern of matched outcome probabilities said to be only accountable by quantum physics explanation.

    The probability of a match is affected by the angle of rotation which is why I think we shouldn't expect a simple linear relationship.

    I could have been clearer about the metaphysical background being used. I think I did mention in this one that absolute, uni-temporal space is a premise of this paper.

    it would probably help if I set out the explanation as above for clarity . So thanks for pointing out the shortcoming.

    We don't need to worry about the angle presented by the whole radius. We need to be concerned by the area closest to the walkway that is most easily accessed. Imagine a cat flap sized hole in the rotating wall. imagine a radius drawn pointing left horizontal, as we look at it. A bunny hole at the end if the radius is on average the impossible to jump, radius length above our floor height. That is in total, half the width of door subtracted from radius length to half the width of door added to radius. A radius drawn straight down vertical as we look sat it with a bunny hole at the bottom , The hole is at ground level at its lowest point. For each rotation with respect to the walkway there is an associated height compared to the walkway and position compared to the rabbit that could be jumped through or not not.

    Reply to comment on viXra: I'm giving another way of thinking about the issue. Rather than buying into isn't it so strange hype. Such as...'There needs to be 'spooky' entanglement to account for correlations Definite states of being only come to exist upon measurement.' Not so I'm saying absolute orientation in absolute space and uni-temporal time there is what you need. Do not be fooled by the lack of info like the magic rabbit illusion, Things exist in absolute relation to other existing things even when an observation product or measurement hasn't been made. The moon material object exists even when the observer hasn't processed received signals into an observation product ,relative, semblance of the moon from his viewpoint. QM lacks observer independent reality and has problems because of it. So does special Relativity, with its paradoxes. There is no need for spookiness at any angle to account for results obtained. Above 45 degrees and rising; close to easy-ish, easy-ish, easy. 45 degrees= medium difficulty. Below 45 to 90 degrees; close to hard, hard , impossible. Chances of match affected by ease /difficulty, more 1s if easier, more 0s if harder.