A reasonable thing that just might work

@article{Rohrlich2015ART,
  title={A reasonable thing that just might work},
  author={Daniel Rohrlich},
  journal={arXiv: Quantum Physics},
  year={2015}
}
  • D. Rohrlich
  • Published 6 July 2015
  • Physics
  • arXiv: Quantum Physics
In 1964, John Bell proved that quantum mechanics is \unreasonable" (to use Einstein’s term): there are nonlocal bipartite quantum correlations. But they are not the most nonlocal bipartite correlations consistent with relativistic causality (\no superluminal signalling"): also maximally nonlocal \superquantum" (or \PR-box") correlations are consistent with relativistic causality. I show that|unlike quantum correlations|these correlations do not have a classical limit consistent with… 
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