Thursday, July 10, 2025

Painfully aware of the nonlocality inherent in standard quantum theory?

 

Modal Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics


https://plato.stanford.edu/archIves/spr2008/entries/qm-modal/

By the early 1970s, researchers in philosophy of physics had become painfully aware of the nonlocality inherent in standard quantum theory. It arises most dramatically in the context of the projection postulate, which asserts that upon measurement of a physical system, its state will ‘collapse’ (or be ‘projected’) to a state corresponding to the value found in the measurement. This postulate is difficult to accept in any case (what effects this discontinuous change in the physical state of a system? what exactly is a ‘measurement’ as opposed to an ordinary physical interaction?), but it is especially worrying when applied to entangled compound systems whose components are well-separated in space . . . "

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