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The Sutherland paper cited in the OP claims that locality can be preserved when a retro-causal mechanism is employed. In most cases, when "locality" is specified, causality to the exclusion of retro-causality is presumed. That's a very reasonable assumption since allowing retro-causality makes...

His paper addressed "causality and locality" - not just locality.

OK. Now I can read the article by Sutherland. That Sutherland article does not presume "causality" as part of "locality". Obviously, asserting a combination of causality and retrocausality can be used to completely remove any locality restrictions. That is an outlandishly trite point to...

I think I know what you are getting at. It is common to see the term "quantum indeterminacy" melded into terms like "random" and non-deterministic - and perhaps I will start a thread on that topic sometime. "Retrodiction", and specifically the way in which you are using the term, presumes a...

I'm having trouble finding John Bell's original 1964 paper. But it discussed "Local Reality Theorem" at length, and as I recall, it included the term "non-local". I did find a source that quotes a section of Bell's original paper. Here is an excerpt that uses the term "non-local" in context...

The Bell experiments demonstrate that the measurement results are the result of both measurement choices. The the only emitter contribution that is demonstrated by the experiments is that the particles were created entangled. The "normal" (ie, naive) expectation would be that some kind of...

Clearly, if you start with that presumption, everything is local. But that presumption is wrong. If it was right, there would be nothing to talk about - because that is the way we all "naturally" expect things to work. The key to understanding the Bell inequality is to understand how one can...

When I bring up that "researchgate" link, I get the abstract and the references - but not the full article. From what I gather, in that paper they are saying that a retrodiction can be made based on one measurement that infers conditions that will affect the other measurement. Fine enough -...

Your experience with code reviews is bizarrely different than mine. 1) If I thought someone was holding back on finding or reporting errors in my code, I would visit their office and work things out with them. 2) Reviewers should be getting a "review package" that includes the what is required...

The amount of water I suggested was intended to evaporate quickly within the ball - leaving the air in there more humid and thus more electrically conductive. It was also intended to make the interior surface of the clear plastic globe conductive. If the interior air is dry and that surface is...

As you suspect, there is a problem with static electricity. If I had the globe in my hands, I would be looking at the base and how the mechanics and electricity make it from outside the globe to inside the globe - because that will be your access path. You objective is two-fold: 1) To create a...

Determining requirements: Any Systems Engineer looking at how the judicial system collects testimony would have to be very dismayed. Interviewing "stakeholders" for the purpose of determining requirements requires skill, fluency, and the ability to be very flexible with how language is used -...

In my opinion: It would be useful for a critique from a generative AI (or perhaps reports from a few Generative AI products) to be included in the review package - and available to the author (before the review) and the peers (during the review). But only material generated by peers should...

It's simply whether they are in phase or not. If you know they are the same frequency and in phase, then they will "constructively interfere". The method for determining that they are in phase can be anything. For example, two lasers could (in principle) be properly regulated to hold to a...

For the general case, this is a very interesting question. But for simplicity, I will answer a much more limited case. Let's say that the object is moving parallel to the projection screen and rather close to it. And let's say that the light source is quite distant - so that all of the light is...