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Any book which attempts to deal with quantum theory, Special Relativity and General Relativity courts various forms of disaster.

— Tim Maudlin Quantum Non-locality and Relativity (2002)

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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...

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