[ExI] QT and SR (was Re: Probability is"subjectivelyobjective".)
Lee Corbin
lcorbin at rawbw.com
Thu Jul 17 21:57:26 UTC 2008
Serafino writes
> And - speaking of the epistemic/ontic issue - interference
> can be seen or as an algebraic effect or as an effect,
> which takes place in abstract tensor product spaces,
> due to the Schroedinger's "waves", which can entangle
> particles no matter how far apart they are.
Can you clarify what you mean by "epistemic/ontic issue"?
> Coming back to the subject line let us read Dirac (1972)
> "It [nonlocality] is against the spirit of relativity,
It's against the spirit of relativity only if one thinks that
influences spread faster than light.
> but is the best we can do at the present time ... and,
> of course, one is not satisfied with such a theory.
> I think one ought to say that the problem of reconciling
> quantum theory with relativity is not solved."
This is certainly true for General Relativity and QM,
of course. But I'm not aware of any problem between
SR and QM. EPR, for example, is easily dispatched
by use of the MWI of QM. What other problems are
there?
Lee
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