Re:Steven Weinberg: What Is Quantum Field Theory, and What D...
by codethief on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:06PM
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> Therefore spacetime is either non-local
You might be interested in Travis Norsen's book "Foundations of Quantum Mechanics - An Exploration of the Physical Meaning of Quantum Theory" (2017) where he argues that quantum mechanics (in the orthodox Copenhagen interpretation) is not even non-local because the word doesn't even make sense in quantum mechanics.
Yet it does appear instant, from all data we have. And that is not explained at all by our current understanding of quantum physics. It's "explained" as in we observe it, and can calculate how it works. But it's not explained as in how come that collapse happens instantly regardless of the distance.
Therefore spacetime is either non-local, or we need another interpretation like many worlds that avoids the collapse and replaced it with neverending waveform, or something else.
To say there's nothing here left to explain to me says you don't understand the problem in the first place. Either that, or you know something that leading physicists don't know right now.