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Journal of Modern Physics, 2011, 2, 958-961 doi:10.4236/jmp.2011.29114 Published Online September 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/jmp) Correlations and Hyper-Correlations Gennaro Auletta Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy E-mail: auletta@unigre.it Received March 15, 2011; revised May 5, 2011; accepted May 25, 2011 Abstract Recent developments in quantum information allow for a new understanding of quantum correlations. The aim of this paper is to physically explain why quantum mechanics obeys a stronger bond than the non-sig- naling requirement or alternatively why it obeys a principle of information causality. It is shown that a physical theory violating the quantum bond allows for correlations between settings while quantum mechan- ics only allows for correlations between possible outcomes. In fact, correlations between settings would vio- late the protocols used in quantum cryptography. The conclusion is that information codification is a local operation and quantum mechanics sets the general conditions for information exchanging in our universe since it satisfies and saturates the bond that is imposed by the principle of information causality, and in so doing it also sets specific constraints on both the possible interdependencies and the possible interactions (also causal interconnections) in our universe. Keywords: Entanglement, Non-Locality, Tsirelson Inequality, Principle of Information Causality 1. Introduction It is largely proven that this inequality is violated by quantum systems, which therefore display some non- local interdependencies. It was however unknown to date which kind of interdependencies the quantum-mechani- cal ones are and whether or not quantum mechanics obeys some bond. One of the biggest mysteries of quantum mechanics is represented by the concept of entanglement, originally proposed by Schr?dinger [1] as a solution of the EPR paradox [2] and s