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It is shown that the violation of Bell's inequality allowed by quantum mechanics and the related Bell's theorem without inequalities is accounted for by local commutations of operators representing single-particle observables. It is argued that the idea of nonlocal influencing of one particle on another when they are in spacelike separated regions clearly has neither empirical nor theoretical support.
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De Baere, W., Mann, A. & Revzen, M. Locality and Bell's Theorem. Foundations of Physics 29, 67–77 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018865120111
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