"Quantum mechanics has an axiomatic structure, exposed by von Neumann, Dirac and others. The axioms... tell us that every state of a system corresponds to a vector in a complex , every physical observable corresponds to linear hermitian operator acting on that Hilbert space, etc. ...Special relativity can be deduced... from two axioms: the equivalence of inertial reference frames, and the constancy of the speed of light. Both axioms have clear physical meaning. By contrast, the numerous axioms of quantum mechanics have [none]... the new axioms are hardly more natural than the old. offers hope... a remarkable property of... nonlocality. ...Bell showed, quantum correlations could not arise in any theory in which all variables obey relativistic causality. On the other hand, quantum correlations themselves obey relativistic causality—we cannot exploit quantum correlations to transmit signals at superliminal speeds (ar at any speed). That quantum mechanics combines nonlocality and causality is wondrous... Shimony has aptly called the nonlocality manifest in quantum correlations "passion at a distance"... [and] has raised the question whether nonlocality and causality can peacefully coexist in any other theory besides quantum mechanics."