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A historical perspective to the present-day locality debate

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It is argued that the way towards understanding the experiments with visible light which purport to exhibit nonlocality lies in a return to the wave theory of light. A connection is also indicated between the present-day photon description and the pre-wave-theory corpuscular description, and hence we see that, essentially, the problem of nonlocality in physics was solved nearly two centuries ago by Young and Fresnel.

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Marshall, T.W. A historical perspective to the present-day locality debate. Found Phys 22, 363–370 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01883902

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