Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm laboratory experiments: Data analysis and simulation

TL;DR

This paper analyzes EPRB experiment data, finding it violates Bell inequalities but does not support quantum theory, while a detailed simulation model can reproduce quantum results, suggesting no fundamental obstacle for real experiments to align with quantum theory.

Contribution

It demonstrates that experimental data can violate Bell inequalities yet not support quantum theory, and introduces a cause-and-effect simulation model that reproduces quantum results.

Findings

Experimental data violates Bell inequalities.

Data does not support quantum theory hypothesis.

Simulation model reproduces quantum results.

Abstract

Data produced by laboratory Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm (EPRB) experiments is tested against the hypothesis that the statistics of this data is given by quantum theory of this thought experiment. Statistical evidence is presented that the experimental data, while violating Bell inequalities, does not support this hypothesis. It is shown that an event-based simulation model, providing a cause-and-effect description of real EPRB experiments at a level of detail which is not covered by quantum theory, reproduces the results of quantum theory of this thought experiment, indicating that there is no fundamental obstacle for a real EPRB experiment to produce data that can be described by quantum theory.