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Recent experiments have shown that certain fluid-mechanical systems, namelyoil droplets bouncing on oil films, can mimic a wide range of quantumphenomena, including double-slit interference, quantization of angular momentumand Zeeman splitting. Here I investigate what can be learned from these systemsconcerning no-go theorems as those of Bell and Kochen-Specker. In particular, amodel for the Bell experiment is proposed that includes variables describing a'background' field or medium. This field mimics the surface wave thataccompanies the droplets in the fluid-mechanical experiments. It appears thatquite generally such a model can violate the Bell inequality and reproduce thequantum statistics, even if it is based on local dynamics only. The reason isthat measurement independence is not valid in such models. This opens the doorfor local 'background-based' theories, describing the interaction of particlesand analyzers with a background field, to complete quantum mechanics.Experiments to test these ideas are also proposed.

No-Go Theorems Face Background-based Theories for Quantum Mechanics