>>10914113what is ruled out by bell’s theorem are local hidden variables reproducing QM entanglement effects. so in other words if you want to go with locality, i.e. that the socks don’t instantly effect one another, then a classical hidden variables theory can’t match experiments that measure the correlations between the entangled particles... his point is that it can be local and quantum (no instant signal from one entangled particle to the other) if you just accept that QM doesn’t allow you to ask what would have happened if you measured the entangled particles along some other polarization because there were branches created when the particles were created, and it’s like bertlman’s socks on each history where the polarizations later are chosen by the experimenters/apparatus, whereas in classical theories you would have to assume that you can ask what would have been the result of the experiment had you chosen the other option in your one and only history, which would be encoded in a local hidden variable, but unfortunately that can’t violate bell’s inequality. so if you want hidden variables to encode stuff then there need to be FTL signals, which violates special relativity
