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    Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality

    This is a key point! In one of his many talks, Barandes said that, in his formulation, the typical spatial non-locality that arises from the usual interpretations of Bell's theorem can be reinterpreted as a "temporal non-locality". Lucas.
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    Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality

    I must say that it would not have been bad if Barandes had chosen other words for his principle of "causal locality", instead of simply swapping the order in "local causality". Lucas.
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    Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality

    Following on from what I mentioned in the previous post, these are two different concepts. In the case of QM, we know that it is causally local, according to Barandes' stochastic-quantum theorem, but it is not locally causal, according to Bell's theorem. Lucas.
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    Graduate Understanding Barandes' microscopic theory of causality

    In this video, at 1:04:00, Dustin Lazarovici asks Barandes if his principle of "causal locality" corresponds to what is usually called non-signaling, and Barandes answers affirmatively, pointing out that the proof of his principle of causal locality is very similar to that of the...
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    Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics

    The first sentence is a response to those who argue that RQM would be a solipsistic interpretation. Somehow, the typical confusion arises regarding the definition of certain terms that are commonly used in the community. The first sentence states that RQM is consistent with what is commonly...
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    Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics

    I interpret Candiotto's work as suggesting that relations/interactions are fundamental and that objets/entities emerge from them, while Dorato suggests that a system that does not interact with others can be given an entity by taking into account its predisposition to reveal certain information...
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    Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics

    Thanks for the reference @martinbn! I've been reading a bit about all this and I'd like to add something that I think is interesting... and confusing. In the paper I refer to in post #66, Rovelli states that the ontology of RQM consists of the instantaneous quantum events. Furthermore, he...
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    Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics

    In RQM, what matters is the transition probability between two events involving the particle. If there is a gravitational field, it is included in the Hamiltonian. Lucas.
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    Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics

    A very clear explanation of what constitues the ontology of RQM, taken from this paper: "The standard objection to the epistemic interpretation of the wave function is that instrumentalism about it (i.e. treating it as a bookkeeping device) is simply giving up on physics. But if quantum events...
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    Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics

    In fact, Rovelli developed the relational interpretation inspired by his work in loop quantum gravity. He discusses this in section 4(c) of this paper. Lucas.
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    Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics

    Hi @PeroK! Your objections relate to certain metaphysical assumptions that you take for granted, but which RQM rejects. First, I would like to briefly summarize the essence of the relational interpretation. Taking events/interactions as the central element, if information exists about the...
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    Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics

    I'll make one last attempt! In any case, we may disagree and that's perfectly fine. :smile: Yes, that's true, but Rovelli mentions it because it favors that interpretation. To reinforce it, he adds: "The quantum leaps from one orbit to another constitute their way of being real: an electron is...
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    Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics

    Yes, absolutely! That's why it's a matter open to interpretation. I'm not entirely sure I understand this question. According to the RQM, the ontology of the theory is given by interactions/events. From these, it's possible to construct everything else. For example, if there exists a sequence...
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    Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics

    This idea can be found in several places throughout Rovelli's writings. As an example, in the book we mentioned earlier ("Reality is not what it seems"), he explicitly wrote: "This is the second cornerstone of quantum mechanics, its hardest key: the relational aspect of things. Electrons don’t...
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    Undergrad One does not “prove” the basic principles of Quantum Mechanics

    Rovelli says: "The question of ‘what happens between quantum events’ is meaningless in the theory. The happening of the world is a very fine-grained but discrete swarming of quantum events, not the permanence of entities that have well-defined properties at each moment of a continuous time."...