> What this explains is "spooky action at a distance".
So what's the explanation for why almost all interactions that we perceive seem to not be spooky or at a distance?
So what's the explanation for why almost all interactions that we perceive seem to not be spooky or at a distance?
Or that you don't experience theory of relativity when accelerating.
Senses are imperfect and the information such as those aren't vital to our survival. And their effect is tiny, tiny, tiny. I'm pretty sure spooky action (iirc quantum tunneling) at a distance keeps our sun running, or at least computers.
using an optical analogy: if fourier space is "the real thing", why do we live in a world where point sources are much more common, useful, and interesting, than diffraction patterns?
you seem to be saying in reply "because non-local stuff is difficult to observe". but that's not an explanation; that's the problem.
[although tbh i think you could make this argument against any unified theory - it's effectively the same as "why do we get quantum decoherence?" except that now the idea that it's caused by complexity seems less intuitively right]
http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/11/10/against-...
Do we know that it is? Clearly we are experiencing major observation bias.
I think you are missing my point as well. Reality IS non-local, we just PERCEIVE it as local. No triangle on Earth surface has sum of angles 180, but we say - well it's close enough to 180 so lets say it's 180.
We perceive causality because it's an easier approximation than calculating probability distribution of each molecule. It's like a Russian doll, we perceive the outer doll as whole because we don't look close enough.
Because we don't need to. Evolution didn't specialize us to notice the subtle effect of quantum reality, when a good enough approximation allows us to survive and thrive. We perceive things we perceive, because of their importance for our survival. True nature of reality isn't important to our survival. Thus we don't perceive it.
Reality requires infinite amount of data to process. So we approximate it to stop being overwhelmed.
E.g. geocentric or heliocentric model of solar system are both equally valid. We just choose Heliocentric because its orbits are easier to calculate. Or earth is essentially flat even though it's a sphere etc.
That's not true. Causality is the very mode of operation of the world and it is a requirement for anything to exist at all. Without causality there would be no change and no change means no existence.
Probabilistic models only indicate the degree to which the system is not understood by the observer before his/her confirmation of the system state.
Quantuum theory proves that ball A can hit ball B that will travel back in time and hit ball C before ball B was hit. The causality isn't as narrow as in classical physics.
Also another thing to note - that all molecules in any matter move in random direction all the time, as so much their bounds allow them. It is not inconceivable that all molecules of a gold coin could simply move in the same direction and flip the coin by themselves. Chances of gold coins flipping on their own aren't impossible, just very very very very... improbable.
Even though shadows in usually are short and sort of shaped like we are, though a 2d projection on the ground. When the 3d objects are in weird relations to each other the shadows can be large and deformed (spooky).
if you drop down to the smallest scales you can't tell if two things are in contact. i'm inclined to think that an infinitesemally continuous universe is an approximation we use to make the math 'easier' - in fact so are space and time - and even countability.
our best theories indicate that at small scales you can't actually tell if things are separated or not - or even if there are one or two - or even if events happen first or second.
thinking about a tiny 'almost a black hole' clock on the planck scale can reveal this very quickly with only the most basic of QM, SR and GR relations... below a certain tick rate it will collapse into a black hole and stop working, or the uncertainty effects will smear out the results so that you can't tell which tick comes first, or the error in the ticks exceeds the length of the ticks. in essense space and time are unmeasurable in the context of semi-classical QFT + GR theories