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241 | Tim Maudlin on Locality, Hidden Variables, and Quantum Foundations

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Problem With Local Theory in Quantum Mechanics

Sid Hunt-Dass has been looking at something which amazingly people had not looked carefully at. When you add spin, okay, that's an additional physical degree of freedom. Sid: There is a very specific thing you can look at that standard quantum mechanics doesn't have an obvious way to even treat. He says there are reasons to believe you could signal faster than I. If Bob will suddenly start seeing a slightly different distribution of arrival times if it's 100% oriented in another way? It would essentially be a light switch and a kind of information clean up.

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