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How to Avoid the Coincidence Loophole

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Bell inequality tests of local realism are notoriously difficult to perform. Physicists have attempted these tests for more than 50 years, and for each attempt, gotten closer and closer to a proper test. So far, every test performed has been riddled by one or more loopholes.

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Larsson, JÅ. (2017). How to Avoid the Coincidence Loophole. In: Bertlmann, R., Zeilinger, A. (eds) Quantum [Un]Speakables II. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38987-5_15

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