More evidence to support quantum theory’s ‘spooky action at a distance’

C. S. Unnikrishnan

Mark Buchanan

Christopher Paradise

This paper presents the Universal Algorithm of Existence (UAE) as a speculative information-physics framework for interpreting quantum nonlocality and cosmological light observation. Rather than treating entangled correlations as “spooky action at a distance” or delayed-choice effects as evidence of retrocausality, the paper proposes that such phenomena can be understood as context-dependent resolutions of a deeper informational substrate. Using the delayed-choice quantum eraser and cosmological light retrieval as case studies, the paper formulates UAE in a disciplined mathematical language, states its consistency requirements with standard quantum mechanics and FLRW cosmology, and positions it as an interpretive research program awaiting distinctive testable predictions.

Shreya Banerjee, Sayantani Bera, Tejinder P. Singh

Quantum nonlocal correlations and the acausal, spooky action at a distance suggest a discord between quantum theory and special relativity. We propose a resolution for this discord by first observing that there is a problem of time in quantum theory. There should exist a reformulation of quantum theory which does not refer to classical time. Such a reformulation is obtained by suggesting that spacetime is fundamentally noncommutative. Quantum theory without classical time is the equilibrium statistical thermodynamics of the underlying noncommutative relativity. Stochastic fluctuations about equilibrium give rise to the classical limit and ordinary spacetime geometry. However, measurement on an entangled state can be correctly described only in the underlying noncommutative spacetime, where there is no causality violation, nor a spooky action at a distance.

Joseph Palazzo

In the interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, there were four major mistakes done at different levels: (1)A misinterpretation of Bell’s theorem in which the original intent did not include non-locality, but as a test to see whether or not a particle has a certain property that can be measured. (2)A misinterpretation of the disagreement between Einstein and Bohr. Einstein’s objection to the collapse of the wave function implied a spooky action at a distance, while Bohr insisted on the instantaneous collapse of the wave function which he mistook to be a real wave. (3)A misinterpretation that the wave function represents a real wave when in actuality it represents the possible states of a quantum system before a measurement. (4)When Bell’s theorem was violated by a quantum system, those violations were misinterpreted as evidence of an instantaneous collapse of the wave function and non-locality. We will argue: there is no collapse of the wave function. Bell’s theorem is not about non-locality. There is no spooky action at a distance. And Quantum Mechanics is about measuring quantities at the microscopic scales and in doing so, these quantities are altered. So what we get is partial knowledge. But in spite of that obstacle, we still get a theory of reality with considerable success.