Realism or Locality: Which Should We Abandon?

We reconsider the consequences of the observed violations of Bell’ s inequalities. Two common responses to these violations are (i) the rejection of realism and the retention of locality and (ii) the rejection of locality and the retention of realism . Here we critique response (i). We argue that locality contains an implicit form of realism, since in a worldview that embraces locality, spacetime , with its usual , fixed topology, has properties independent of measurement . Hence we argue that response (i) is incomplete , in that its rejection of realism is only partial.