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Nonlocal “Realistic” Leggett Models Can be Considered Refuted by the Before-Before Experiment

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Nonlocal “realistic” Leggett models can be considered refuted by the before-before experiment. “Single preferred frame” models are not refuted by this experiment but bear severe oddities.

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Suarez, A. Nonlocal “Realistic” Leggett Models Can be Considered Refuted by the Before-Before Experiment. Found Phys 38, 583–589 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-008-9228-y

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