https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/quant-ph_0607057/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4724194urn:hackerpapers:mention:quant-ph_0607057:4724194Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:57:43 GMT<p>Thanks for the explanation. I was still confused about how &quot;things actually are material and unchanging&quot; led to &quot;reality does not exist when we are not observing it.&quot; You pointed me in the right direction though and I&#x27;m convinced that the term is being abused by the caller: &gt;Realism in the sense used by physicists does not equate to realism in metaphysics. The latter is the claim that the world is in some sense mind-independent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_realism#Local_realism http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0607057v2.pdf If papers are being written about how &quot;local realism&quot; should be…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/quant-ph_0607057/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>quant-ph