arXiv:1304.4801

Any nonlocal model assuming "local parts" conflicts with relativity

Antoine Suárez

Published Apr 17, 2013• 0 citations

Abstract

It is argued that any nonlocal model producing "local parts" (i.e.: disappearance of the correlations under certain testable conditions) can be reproduced by "multisimultaneity" and therefore (because of arxiv:1304.0532) conflicts not only with quantum mechanics but also with relativity. This result means in particular that the very structure of space-time (relativity) requires influences coming from outside space-time.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1304.4801

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