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Does quantum mechanics already explain its own 'spooky action'?
Grgeory D. Scholes
May 20, 2026
By carefully tracking how a single wavefunction encodes measurement statistics for each part of an entangled pair, the author argues that definite outcomes and nonlocal correlations — including Bell inequality violations — follow from ordinary quantum mechanics alone, with no new postulates or nonlinearities required. The claim is that collapse isn't a physical process that needs explaining but an artifact of how subsystem state vectors are extracted from the joint wavefunction. If the argument holds up, it dissolves two of the most debated puzzles in quantum foundations using only existing machinery.
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