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There may be no conclusive proof, but it's a philosophically tough pill to swallow. Non-locality means things synchronise instantly across the universe, can go
by movpasd 2y ago
There may be no conclusive proof, but it's a philosophically tough pill to swallow.
Non-locality means things synchronise instantly across the universe, can go back in time in some reference frames, and yet reality _just so happens_ to censure these secret unobservable wave function components, trading quantum for classical probability so that it is impossible for us to observe the difference between a collapsed and uncollapsed state. Is this really tenable?
Strip back the metaphysical baggage and consider the basic purpose of science. We want a theoretical machine that is supplied a description about what is happening now and gives you a description of what will happen in the future. The "state" of a system is just that description. A good _scientific_ theory's description of state is minimal: it has no redundancy, and it has no extraneous unobservables.