THE EXECUTIONERS
Stop proving the easy cases.
Casimir, evanescence and classical wave analogies open the door. They do not carry the theory through it.
A serious reconstruction program concentrates effort where simple classical models are already known to fail. Those experiments are not reasons to stop. They are the specification for the next model.
01Bell correlationsBell-local, measurement-independent hidden-variable factorization is excluded. Contextuality alone does not rescue it. A candidate must state which Bell premise it changes and pay the physical price.02Atomic stabilityStandard stochastic electrodynamics does not presently stabilize ordinary hydrogen indefinitely; long simulations self-ionize. Any successor must repair this without destroying its other successes.03Antibunching and HOMNaive classical random fields plus conventional photodetection fail important event-statistics tests. The detector dynamics must be explicit, quantitative and source-sensitive.04Photoelectric coincidencesClauser’s 1974 experiment kills the cheap intensity-proportional semiclassical detector model. Threshold rhetoric is not enough.05The public ledgerEvery green cell sits beside red and unearned cells. No phenomenon is declared reconstructed merely because an analogy exists.
Bell in one sentence
Bell violation ⇒ leave the Bell-local + measurement-independent factorization class.
Bell violation ⇏ “Copenhagen proved,” “collapse observed,” or “all objective field theories impossible.”
Bell violation ⇏ “Copenhagen proved,” “collapse observed,” or “all objective field theories impossible.”
Nonlocal realist dynamics, measurement-dependent dynamics, retrocausal/global-boundary models and other explicit departures remain mathematical model classes. Calling one “classical” does not make it viable; only a coherent dynamics that reproduces the data can do that.
The hard experiments are not conversation-stoppers. They are compiler errors.