Comment on "Cosmic Bell Test: Measurement Settings from Milky Way Stars"

• Main Author: Argaman, Nathan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 11-05-2017
• Subjects: Physics - Quantum Physics
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.04140

This Comment argues that two assumptions, which are presented as basic
assumptions of Bell's theorem in [J. Handsteiner et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 118,
060401 (2017)] and elsewhere, in fact follow from more basic premises.
Measurement independence follows from (i) the use of free variables and (ii)
the causal arrow of time. Determinism follows from (i) local causality and (ii)
perfect correlations (predicted by quantum mechanics). In particular, it is
pointed out that the measurement-independence violating toy model of [M.J.W.
Hall, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 250404 (2010)], is based on a retro-causal model.
While this may be controversial, it should be possible to achieve concensus on
the much simpler matter of what the basic assumptions of Bell's theorem are.