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{{task heading|Introduction}}
In this task, you will write a program to analyze the "raw data" outputted by one of the ''[[Simulated optics experiment/Simulator]]'' implementations. The analysis will estimate the following numbers:
* Four ''[[wp:Correlation_coefficient|correlation coefficients]]'': one for each of the four possible combinations of the two polarizing beam splitter angles. These measure the interrelatedness of light detection events on the two sides of the experiment.
* A ''[[wp:CHSH_inequality|CHSH contrast]]'', which is derived from the correlation coefficients.
The estimated CHSH contrast is what we are really interested in, because what we intend to show is that it contradicts what many physicists believe.
Quantum mechanics predicts a CHSH contrast of approximately <math>2\sqrt{2}\approx{2.828427}</math>. The ''[[Simulated optics experiment/Simulator]]'' simulation will be shown (by our analysis) to have a CHSH contrast very close to that. Note that our simulation does not employ any quantum mechanics, but instead simulates light [[wp:Classical_physics|"classically"]]. Also our simulation clearly involves only causation that in each instance takes a finite amount of forward-moving time. That is, there is no "[[wp:Action_at_a_distance|instantaneous action at a distance]]".
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