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Would you claim that when Einstein developed his theories of relativity, they were invalid (from the point of view of physics) because their consequences were n
by tylerhou 5y ago
Would you claim that when Einstein developed his theories of relativity, they were invalid (from the point of view of physics) because their consequences were not yet observable? For example, Einstein used thought experiments to develop special relativity in 1905, but since kinematic time dilation was only experimentally confirmed in 1971, his work was not a contribution to physics until then?
- lisper 5y agoThe difference is that the limits on observing relativistic effects in 1905 were technological, whereas in QM you cannot observe the effects of entanglement in a non-isolated system even in principle. This is a fundamental constraint imposed by the theory itself. You can't get around it even with arbitrarily advanced technology.