The chaotic chameleon

Abstract

Various local hidden variables models for the singlet correlations exploit the detection loophole, or other loopholes connected with post-selection on coincident arrival times. I consider the connection with a probabilistic simulation technique called rejection-sampling, and pose some natural questions concerning what can be achieved and what cannot be achieved with local (or distributed) rejection sampling. In particular a new and more serious loophole, which we call the coincidence loophole, is introduced.