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Although this book is not the place to thrash out those issues, I have thrashed them... in other places.
Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)
Starting from what we understand and seeing clearly its inadequacies can provide a path to conceptual progress.
Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (2019)
Non-locality appears at exactly the point where the "measurement problem" which infects standard quantum theory is resolved.
Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)
Physics aspires to a sort of universality that is unique among empirical sciences and holds, in that sense, a foundational position among them.
Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (2019)
Pictures of space-time look misleadingly like pictures of space, and the novice must unlearn some of the conventions...
Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)
Any book which attempts to deal with quantum theory, Special Relativity and General Relativity courts various forms of disaster.
Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)
In fact every theory in the history of physics before quantum theory was EPR-local. So the discovery that the world is not EPR-local (i.e. that any physical theory that makes accurate predictions cannot be EPR-local) would mark a radical break in the history of physics.
At its most fundamental level, physics tells us about what there is, about the categories of being. And modern physics tells us that what there is ain't nothing like what we thought there is.
Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)
Many... would agree that Relativity prohibits something from going faster than light but disagree over just what something is.
Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)
The central problem facing attempts to understand a quantum theory is how it manages to model empirical phenomena in a principled way. This is often referred to as "the measurement problem"...
Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (2019)
I hope... to have provided a framework sturdy enough and correct enough to serve both professional and amateur naval architects who propose to redesign the craft which carries us on our journey.
Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)
If one resolves the measurement problem by allowing a real physical process of wave collapse, it is the collapse dynamics which manifests the non-locality, and which resists the fully Relativistic formulation.
Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)
If one resolves the measurement problem by postulating additional variables beside the wave function, it is the dynamics of these variables which manifests the non-locality and which resists a fully Relativistic formulation.
Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)
Unlike space-time theory, where there is substantial agreement about how to understand the best physics we have (General Relativity), quantum theory has always been a battleground of contention. Nothing one can say would command the assent of most physicists and philosophers.
Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (2019)
[A]nother interpretation holds that Relativity requires only thatTheories be Lorentz invarient.
Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)
[M]ost clear philosophical ideas can be presented intuitively, shorn of the manifold qualifications, appendices and terminological innovations that grow like weeds in academic soil.
Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)
If the correct solution to the measurement problem does not involve local beables, or if those beables have no nonrelativistic analogs, then starting with nonrelativistic quantum mechanics is counterproductive. But one has to start somewhere...
Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory (2019)