Entanglement, EPR and Bell in Time-Actualization: Correlations as the Structure of the Future, and an Einstein 1905-1935 Bridge

Time–Actualization (TA) reads quantum mechanics as the potential future, the relativistic causal record as the actualized past, and the present as the act of actualization that converts one into the other. We apply this reading to EPR and Bell. Entanglement is the non-factorizability of the joint future ρAB, not an inventory of pre-existing values. The EPR "element of reality" is rejected in this reading because predictability within ρ is not a fact within ⟨P,≺⟩. The proposed dissolution requires a dynamics correlating two separate actualizations; that construction remains open. Bell's experimentally violated inequality refutes the locally-causal hidden-variable hypothesis; on TA's reading what gives way is pre-actualized local realism, while operational locality (no-signalling) is preserved—and the latter is, in substance, the imported microcausality of the substrate (observables attached to causally disjoint events commute). We are explicit that the correlations, the Tsirelson bound, and the Born weights are imported from the quantum formalism, never derived, and that TA permits no distinctive empirical prediction: equivalence to quantum mechanics on the same causal-set substrate is its target, whose full verification remains open. Finally we draw a structural parallel between Einstein's 1905 light-quantum argument and the 1935 EPR argument: in each, a structure governing what may happen—a mode spectrum, a set of correlations—is allowed to fix a distribution of actual values. We are careful to note that the two are not the same error, the 1905 case being a failed dynamics and the 1935 case a failed ontology; what they share is the correction. The contribution is ontological clarity, not a new number.