Bell’s Interconnectedness Theorem

Bell’s Interconnectedness Theorem

From Quantum Reality by Nick Herbert

      Arguing from quantum theory plus a bit of arithmetic, Bell was able to show that any model of reality whatsoever–whether ordinary or contextual–must be non-local. Bell’s theorem has since been proved entirely in terms of quantum facts, no reference to quantum theory is necessary. In its most up-to-date version Bell’s theorem reads: The quantum facts plus a bit of arithmetic require that reality be non-local. In a local reality, influences cannot travel faster than light. Bell’s theorem says that in any reality of this sort, information does not get around fast enough to explain the quantum facts: reality must be non-local.

      “Bell’s theorem proves that any model of reality, whether ordinary or contextual, must be connected by influences which do not respect the optical speed limit. If Bell’s theorem is valid, we live in a superluminal reality. Bell’s discovery of the necessary non-locality of deep reality is the most important achievement in reality research since the invention of quantum theory.”

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