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minus-squareSasha [They/Them]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 hours agoYou know how you get COVID from being in the same room as someone who sneezes on you or something? It’s that. Non locality is when you get COVID from someone the next state over.
minus-squareWhyJiffie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 hours agolocality. what was it supposed to be? and why doesn’t it actually exist? what model “replaces” it, if any? maybe the meaning of spacetime isn’t obvious either, and I just misunderstand what it means
minus-squareComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 hours agolocality wikipedia page In short locality states that things are only directly affected by their immediate surroundings. This is provably untrue in quantum mechanics.
What does that mean?
You know how you get COVID from being in the same room as someone who sneezes on you or something? It’s that.
Non locality is when you get COVID from someone the next state over.
Which part
locality. what was it supposed to be? and why doesn’t it actually exist? what model “replaces” it, if any?
maybe the meaning of spacetime isn’t obvious either, and I just misunderstand what it means
locality wikipedia page
In short locality states that things are only directly affected by their immediate surroundings. This is provably untrue in quantum mechanics.
Thanks!