Reality or Locality? Proposed Test to Decide How Nature Breaks Bell's Inequality

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If “hidden variables” are governed and determined by dissipative equations an attractor will be reconstructed by the𝑞_𝑖𝑠. To mimic the apparently random behavior of quantum mechanical data it will be a “strange attractor” with noninteger (fractal [18]) dimension analogous to the famous Lorenz-attractor, here reconstructed from time series data from only one of the three variables of the Lorenz system [21]—the very first concrete example of dissipative chaos. Any apparent attractor structure would tell us nature is not local—causes arbitrarily far may affect results “here”—that is, there are influences going faster than light (even if we cannot control them for practical telegraphy). Furthermore, it would indicate that the orthodox (“Copenhagen”) interpretation of quantum mechanics is wrong.