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[QUOTE="gentzen, post: 6800433, member: 685984"] That is quite possible. My reaction to your "intended interpretation" was dominated by your reference to GRW (paired with my limited knowledge of why such objective collapse theories differ from standard QM): GRW is known to allow both a "flash ontology" (or "flashes ontology") and a "mass density ontology". (I guess that some objective collapse theories are commited to a "mass density ontology", i.e. theories like the Diósi–Penrose model.) So I guessed that your "events" would be similar to the "flashes" for GRW. The "flashes" for GRW have infinitely accurate spacetime coordinates. For GRW, even their randomness seems to be not enough to get rid of that excess accuracy again. But for Bohmian mechanics, the randomness is sufficient, so an unconditionally true answer to that question seems impossible. The trouble with excess accuracy is that the information content of a system with a finite energy in a finite spacetime region should better not be infinite. It is convenient to work with real numbers for mathematical models, but their infinite accuracy forces you to have some mechanism (like "vagueness") to avoid that their infinite accuracy has experimentally observable consequences. I guess that the mechanism for QFT to get rid of the excess accuracy (related to "point process in spacetime") is renormalization. You find "points of view" like the following in [URL='http://people.phys.ethz.ch/~nbeisert/lectures/QFT1-19HS-Notes.pdf']modern QTF1 lecture notes[/URL]: [/QUOTE]
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