“Physicists continue to debate whether Bell's theorem is airtight or not. However, the real question is not whether Bell can prove beyond doubt that reality is non-local, but whether the world is in fact no-local.”

—  Nick Herbert

Source: Quantum Reality - Beyond The New Physics, Chapter 13, The Future Of Quantum Reality, p. 238

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