Action and Passion at a Distance.

Daniel Mosheh Rohrlich, Sandu Popescu

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Abstract

Quantum mechanics permits nonlocality — both nonlocal correlations and nonlocal equations of motion — while respecting relativistic causality. Is quantum mechanics the unique theory that reconciles nonlocality and causality? We consider two models, going beyond quantum mechanics, of nonlocality — “superquantum” correlations and nonlocal “jamming” of correlations — and derive new results for the jamming model. In one space dimension, jamming allows reversal of the sequence of cause and effect; in higher dimensions, however, effect never precedes cause.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationQuantum Potentiality, Entanglement, and Passion-at-a-Distance
Editors R.S. Cohen, M. Horne, J. Stachel
PublisherSpringer, Dordrecht
Pages197-206
ISBN (Electronic)978-94-017-2732-7
ISBN (Print)978-90-481-4809-7
DOIs
StatePublished - 1997

Publication series

NameBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
PublisherSpringer
Volume194
ISSN (Print)0068-0346
ISSN (Electronic)2214-7942

Keywords

  • Relativistic Causality
  • Unique Theory
  • Quantum Correlation
  • Light Cone
  • Binary Condition

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