What interpretations break causality instead of locality?

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By Bell’s theorem, an interpretation of QM must break either locality or causality. Linked below is the only interpretation I know of that chooses to maintain locality. (I don't know many.) Do you know of any others?

CAUSALLY SYMMETRIC BOHM MODEL
http://arxiv.org/ftp/quant-ph/papers/0601/0601095.pdf
 
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For a list of local approaches see
https://www.physicsforums.com/blog.php?b=3622
 
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Demystifier said:
For a list of local approaches see
https://www.physicsforums.com/blog.php?b=3622
Cool. Thanks.

  • Copenhagen - Copenhagen is local? I didn't know that.
  • many worlds - Many worlds is local? I didn't know that either.
  • superdeterminism - Sounds crazy but I'll read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdeterminism
  • backward causation - I assume the causally symmetric Bohm model counts as one of these. Otherwise I can't find this interpretation.
  • noncommutative hidden variables - I hear Joy Christian is a crackpot Bell denier.
  • Your solipsistic hidden variables - Cool. I'll have to read this one ... if I can
 
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Cramer's Generalized absorber theory and the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox:

http://www.npl.washington.edu/npl/int_rep/gat_80/

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New Insights on Time-Symmetry in Quantum Mechanics
by Yakir Aharonov, Jeff Tollaksen

http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1232

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Relational Blockworld: Towards a Discrete Graph Theoretic Foundation of Quantum Mechanics
by W.M. Stuckey, Timothy McDevitt, Michael Silberstein

http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.2642
 
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