On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 7:00 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 12:20:20 AM UTC-7 Bruce Kellett wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2024 at 6:00 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday, December 16, 2024 at 11:48:17 PM UTC-7 Bruce Kellett wrote: > > How is non-local defined? Does it imply instantaneous, or faster than > light transference of information? AG > > > I defined non-local above: whatever happens at A does not affect B and *vice > versa*. It has nothing to do with faster-than-light transfer of > information. If there was some FTL transfer between A and B, then the > effect would be local. The idea that non-locality means FTL effects is a > common confusion. That idea is totally wrong. > > Bruce > > It might be, as you write, a common confusion, but how else can a > measurement at A not effect a measurement at B , and vice versa, and yet be > correlated, without faster-than-light transference of information. It does > seem to me that non-local implies denial of realism. AG > > > You just have to stop thinking about it in classical terms. > > Bruce > > > If my interpretation is wrong, this is too classical, what's the correct > interpretation? AG > Instead of thinking in terms of a local Hamiltonian, depending on just one spacetime point; you have to think of a non-local Hamiltonian, depending on more than one spacetime point. Bruce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLQ4n_mB2%2BNCwsTiePb9Cm2ivn53apiZtb-Os7SZXfbk6w%40mail.gmail.com.
