One of the most accurate and successful theories in physics contains the single worst prediction and isn’t mathematically rigorous at all.
Doing calculations with it feels like doing vibes based maths, and you spend a lot of time doing things like: “oops divided by zero guess I’ll cancel it out by multiplying by zero” and it works.
Physics in general has not caught up to the fact that locality isn’t a thing. Nobel prizes were handed out for this in I think 22… And people still think the notion of spacetime can be taken seriously. It can’t.
One of the most accurate and successful theories in physics contains the single worst prediction and isn’t mathematically rigorous at all.
Doing calculations with it feels like doing vibes based maths, and you spend a lot of time doing things like: “oops divided by zero guess I’ll cancel it out by multiplying by zero” and it works.
Physics in general has not caught up to the fact that locality isn’t a thing. Nobel prizes were handed out for this in I think 22… And people still think the notion of spacetime can be taken seriously. It can’t.
What does that mean?
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!
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.