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Death by experiment for local realism

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A fundamental scientific assumption called local realism conflicts with certain predictions of quantum mechanics. Those predictions have now been verified, with none of the loopholes that have compromised earlier tests. See Letter p.682

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Figure 1: Violation of a three-party Bell inequality.

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  1. Howard Wiseman is at the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University, Brisbane QLD 4111, Australia.,

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Wiseman, H. Death by experiment for local realism. Nature 526, 649–650 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15631

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