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PeterDonis
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This claim, of course, depends on using a different definition of "locality" from the one Bell, GHZ, etc. used to prove their theorems. Basically, it means something like "Alice's and Bob's measurement actions are local--they only act on the particle they are measuring". But again, we already knew this: the standard QM math tells us that the operator that describes Alice's measurement only acts on Alice's qubit, and the operator that describes Bob's measurement only acts on Bob's qubit. The nonlocality is in the wave function: acting on either qubit changes the entire entangled wave function, which includes the other qubit. In other words, there is nothing new here, just a choice of terminology that makes it seem like there's something new when there actually isn't.PAllen said:what appears to be a
causally local hidden-variables formulation of quantum
theory