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In 1982, Alain Aspect, Jean Dalibard and Gérard Roger used a calcium cascade and an acoustic standing wave in water to route each photon toward one of two fixed polarizers. Switching took about $10\mathrm{ns}$, against $40\mathrm{ns}$ for light to cross between stations. Photomultiplier coincidence circuit rates, with delayed-background subtraction and polarizer-removal normalization, violated their Bell inequality. Supplementary polarizers checked each channel against Malus's law. The timing attacked the locality loophole, but the authors emphasized that switching was quasiperiodic, not random; incomplete switching and inefficient collection also limited the test. Its normalized statistic differs from the CHSH inequality convention used below.^[ref]

The locality loophole permits a station's outcome to be influenced by the distant setting through an ordinary signal arriving before readout. Spacelike separation excludes such communication at or below the speed of light. Fast changes only help if the relevant choice and detection events have the required timing. Predictable switching also leaves open correlations with earlier settings; closing a communication channel does not prove measurement independence.