Interpretations of quantum theory: A map of madness

Re:Interpretations of quantum theory: A map of madness by nabla9 on Thursday September 17, 2015 @04:44AM (#10232254)

Locality in in quantum theory confuses the proverbial journalist because meaning of locality is different from the intuitive understanding of the word.

Two entangled particles light years apart share state. Physicists can still say that principle of locality is not violated because definition of locality in physics is does not include quantum state.

Quantum states have no location. Quantum correlations are non-local. As long as this is excluded from definition of locality everything is fine.

Information transfer and energy transfer follows principle of locality strictly.

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Re:Interpretations of quantum theory: A map of madness by darkmighty on Thursday September 17, 2015 @08:39AM (#10232983)

I don't think that's correct? Bell's theorem implies you can't have a theory of local hidden variables that reproduces entanglement (and the rest of QM), no?

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Re:Interpretations of quantum theory: A map of madness by nabla9 on Thursday September 17, 2015 @11:54AM (#10234053)

Quantum state is not local hidden variable. It's non-local.

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