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arXiv:1812.06451quant-ph

Non Locality versus Modified Realism: Convivial Solipsism

Hervé Zwirn

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Abstract

A large number of physicists now admit that quantum mechanics is a non local theory. The EPR argument and the many experiments (including recent loop-hole free tests) showing the violation of Bell's inequalities seem to have confirmed convincingly that quantum mechanics cannot be local. Nevertheless, this conclusion can only be drawn inside a standard realist framework assuming an ontic interpretation of the wave function and viewing the collapse of the wave function as a real change in the physical state of the system. We show that this standpoint is not mandatory and that if the collapse is not considered an actual physical change, it is possible to recover locality.

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27 pages. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1505.05029
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  1. Why is it so hard to be rational? 1 comment

    • > Now let's modify the experiment to assume a hyper-intelligent cat, with access to a full physics laboratory inside of the box. A.k.a. Wigner's Friend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigner%27s_friend > QM describes the cat leads to MW being true for the cat no matter what is…

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  2. A Twist on Schrödinger's Cat Paradox 1 comment

    • That is a really good question! The answer is: no one knows. There is at least one serious interpretation of QM that says that the 3-D physical space that we know is just one of many possibilities [1]. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06451

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  3. Where Quantum Probability Comes From 1 comment

    • Another author saying essentially the same thing: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.06451 I actually believe that this idea has been rediscovered in it essence at least half a dozen times, going back as early as (at least) the late 90s: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9605002 I think…

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