  I exploit the formal equivalence between the ground state of a $d$
dimensional quantum system and a d+1 dimensional classical Ising chain to
represent quantum entanglement in terms of classical correlations only. This
offers a general "local hidden variable model" for all quantum phenomena
existing in one dimension lower than the (hidden variable) classical model
itself. The local hidden variable model is not contradicted by the implications
of Bell's theorem. Formal theory is presented first and then exemplified by the
quantum Ising spin chain in a transverse magnetic field. Here I explicitely
show how to derive any two site entanglement in the transverse model from the
partition function of the classical Ising spin chain existing in two
dimensions. Some speculations are then presented regarding possible fundamental
implications of these results.
