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Is There a Solid Place in Space Time?

We ordinarily think of space and time as where we're located, right? Like that's the stage on which all physics plays out. But then quanta mechanics comes along, and it lets us sort of maintain that illusion for a little while. In quantu mechanics, there are kinds of what einstein called spooky action at a distance. The fundamental reality as something non local, your essence does not have a location in space. It is spread out in some quanti mechanical wave function. And so the point of view that i just sort of half heartedly advocated was one in which space and time lose their centrality. I think for anyone who is not ofe with this particular idea

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