 Quote by jostpuur
I just couple of minutes ago happened to hit the url http://www.physics.ucsb.edu/~mark/qft.html on these forums, started reading it, and noticed that Srednicki explains neccecity of commutator vanishing outside the lightcone quite differently. I haven't understood it myself yet, but it certainly looks worth cheking out. On the page 46 of the pdf. |
This argument is equivalent to demanding that spacelike separated measurements do not influence each other *statistically* (on the level of single events, this is not true - see the EPR paradox). Of course, it is perfectly legitimate to object that statistical assertions for one instant of time seem to contradict the very definition of statistics : quantum physicists interpret this again in terms of unrealized potentialities. In other words a phantom world which we will never observe.