Saturday, January 6, 2018

quantum mechanics - Bell's theorem and why nonlocality is problematic


I generally hear it assumed that Bell's inequality implies violation of counterfactual definiteness, because locality is considered sacrosanct. I understand of course that measurable violations of locality are logically inconsistent. But what is so bad about "hidden" violations of locality? What are the reasons nonlocal hidden variable theories are frowned upon? Is it just because the ontologies currently on the table (such as de Broglie–Bohm theory) are considered kind of ugly?




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classical mechanics - Moment of a force about a given axis (Torque) - Scalar or vectorial?

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