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Are Retrocausal Accounts of Entanglement Unnaturally Fine-Tuned?

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An explicit retrocausal model is used to analyze the general Wood-Spekkens argument [1] that any causal explanation of Bell-inequality violations must be unnaturally fine-tuned to avoid signaling. The no-signaling aspects of the model turn out to be robust under variation of the only free parameter, even as the probabilities deviate from standard quantum theory. The ultimate reason for this robustness is then traced to a symmetry assumed by the original model. A broader conclusion is that symmetry-based restrictions seem a natural and acceptable form of fine-tuning, not an unnatural model-rigging. And if the Wood-Spekkens argument is indicating the presence of hidden symmetries, this might even be interpreted as supporting time-symmetric retrocausal models.

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Taming Entanglement

quant-ph · 2025-07-20 · conditional · novelty 5.0

EPR and Bell correlations are presented as selection artifacts: preparing the initial quantum state preselects a subensemble of a larger uncorrelated ensemble of possible histories, and the low-entropy past supplies the constraint.

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  • Taming Entanglement quant-ph · 2025-07-20 · conditional · none · ref 2 · internal anchor

    EPR and Bell correlations are presented as selection artifacts: preparing the initial quantum state preselects a subensemble of a larger uncorrelated ensemble of possible histories, and the low-entropy past supplies the constraint.