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    It is not the case that Super-quantum correlations — correlations that violate Bell-type inequalities beyond the Tsirelson bound — are physically conceivable.

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    • 1.The Popescu-Rohrlich box is a mathematical construction satisfying no-signaling constraints, not a physically realizable system in any quantum or classical framework.
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    • 2.Physical conceivability requires more than logical or mathematical consistency — it requires embeddability within a coherent physical ontology.
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    • 3.No proposed physical theory has successfully embedded PR-box correlations into a dynamics that preserves relativistic causality and thermodynamic consistency.
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    • 1.Uffink and others have argued that the Tsirelson bound is not merely contingent but reflects deep structural features of Hilbert-space quantum mechanics tied to local commutativity.
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    • 2.If the bound is structurally necessary rather than contingent, violations are not physically conceivable but represent category errors about what quantum mechanics permits.
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    • 1.The Tsirelson bound does not exhaust the full range by which Bell-type correlations can in principle be violated.
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    • 2.Popescu and Rohrlich (1994) identified correlations for particular quantum measurements that exceed the Tsirelson bound.
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