Quantum Entanglement in Classical Systems: so what is the Subquantum Medium Made of?

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As astounding as it may still seem to many, Bell’s theorems do not prove nonlocality. Non separable multipartite objects exist classically, meaning with local physics, the statistical state measurement of which violates the famous inequalities. Alleviating the almost century old confusion, the correct laws of statistics and logic pinpoint the true oddity of quantum objects: duality. As it is shown in the first part of this short essay, duality plus conservation laws allow the violation of Bell’s inequalities for any spatio-temporal separation. To dig deeper into particle dualism, in the second part, a class of models is proposed as a working framework. It encompasses some chaotic excitable reaction-diffusion systems, whose generalized susceptibilities make them compatible with quantized fields and excitations, of any desired symmetry group including the renormalization semigroup. Particles are supposed topological in nature. Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization takes place thanks to topological invariants stemming from densely dispersed defects generated by a multifractal background. Entanglement phenomenology arises because latent variables exist that are carried away, along with the moving particles that have interacted, and by which correlations are preserved. Conservation is assumed to be born in the phase, just as momentum is for instance. In other words, all known phenomena in physics are deterministic, classical and real, in the sense that information does propagate locally and experiments conducted statistically do hide latent variables.