It is a widespread current belief that objective local models can not explainthe quantum optics experiment of Pan et al. By presenting a model that operateson independent computers, we show that this belief is unfounded. Three remotecomputers (Alice, Bob and Claire), that never communicate with each other, sendmeasurement results to a fourth computer that is in charge of collecting thedata and computing correlations. The result obtained by our local simulation isin better agreement with the ideal quantum result than the Pan et al.experiment. We also show that the local model presented by Pan et al. that cannot explain the quantum results contains inappropriate reasoning with profoundconsequences for the possible results of any local model that uses probabilitytheory.
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