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It is! It is superior in many ways, in particular as it takes the physics of measurement seriously, that you can't like in classical physics alway reduce the interaction strenght so that you can make inferences without disturbing the system. It also acknowledges that inferences can be...

I didnt mean todo that, but yes we were. But I thought we were disussing possible "explanations" beyond the descriptions, ie how can we "understand" what we know are "facts" here and now. And I suggested the logical possbility that the "explanations" to what is happening here now, locally - is...

The fallacy here is that here you over-extrapolate the acutual domain of corroboration (human scale observation) to apply universally, all the way from creation of the universe[which we cant observe]. This is what is often labeled the "cosmological fallacy". I fully agree that the theory as it...

Empirically well motivated from alot of experiments yes. But understanding a deeper explanation for the specific empirical facts, and their domain of validity is what is missing. /Fredrik

Elevating something to a postulate or axiom, means that within the theory, it is something you do not further need to explain. But a theory (regardless how well corroborated it is) is never more intuitive or understandable than the plausibility of it's the postulates it rests on. As I see it...

I agree with this hook. This was discussed in other threads. Barandes is making good contributions, but the picture he provides is critically incomplete still to serves as a resolution. The specific part is a missing first principle new reconstruction of the transition probabilitites (gamma). So...

Of course, we can explain time dilation, cleanly and logically from the postulates, since 1905. Few theories are as clear and clean as SR. But the conceptual problem still today is that while the no preferred observer is extremely intuitive. The light postulate, while technically simple, is by...

I think RUTA will love to hear this! But as I see it: It is a fact that there indeed exists no explanation yet (as a scientific consensus that is). Ie. we as a community don't know one, neither for SR nor the quantum weirdness. But the conceptual position that there isn't one to be found, i...

This quotation comes out insightful even in the light of today. I read this so that his intuition was and still is valid - there must be some "mehanicsm" - but i think the resolution required can not be achieved with a the tentative traditional continuous field theory. So does it make sense...

In most similar discussions there is always a mess of different use of terms like local, causal, action etc. This looping part of the discussion is not very interesting and quite tiresome, but what remains the enigma, regardless of terminology is to that There is still after all time no...

Correc,t there is nothing wrong with Bells theorem. There is no local hidden variables in the way of Bell definitions. /Fredrik

Fair point! I should have written that it is a conceptual framework that "allows" for an explanation - witout one particle in som omnipotent way "knows" what the other remote part is doing. The implicit possibility was that the particle just acts out of its expectations; and these are aligned...

The OP apparently seeks at plausible conceptual understanding of how nature can possibly logically pull this off, rather than just understanding or learning how to use the mathematics of quantum theory. As someone subscribing to an agentic qbist like interpretation I can interpret OP question...

But the absolute KEY difference is what you omitted "but without the guiding nomology". I'd say the key difference is not in "hidden variables" themselves. Ie i think the difference lies at the level where law-constraint applies. This is a major difference in the take on causal mechanisms. In...

If the issue is that Barandes seem to wants the metaphysical benefit of "real trajectories" without supplying the formal machinery that would make those trajectories like objective beables rather than underdetermined stuff? Then, my opinion is that it is a key feature here is that a subsystem’s...