{"title":"Is Bananaworld nonlocal?","authors":"Allen Stairs","doi":"10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.08.001","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Jeffrey Bub (2018) investigates what we can learn about quantum mechanics from the structure of the correlations it predicts and apart from its detailed mathematical machinery. The present discussion is in the spirit of Bub's project. I examine two arguments, one from Clifton, Pagonis and Pitowsky (1992), and the other from Maudlin (2014). If either is correct, the non-signaling correlations by themselves entail that the quantum world is causally nonlocal. This paper calls both arguments into question. However, it also points out that even if the criticisms succeed, this doesn't settle whether quantum mechanics is causally nonlocal. The answer to that question depends on considerations that go beyond the correlations alone. Arthur Fine's “random devices in harmony” Fine (1981) will play a role as a tool for thinking about correlations that violate Bell-type inequalities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54442,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics","volume":"72 ","pages":"Pages 301-309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.shpsb.2019.08.001","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1355219818300303","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Jeffrey Bub (2018) investigates what we can learn about quantum mechanics from the structure of the correlations it predicts and apart from its detailed mathematical machinery. The present discussion is in the spirit of Bub's project. I examine two arguments, one from Clifton, Pagonis and Pitowsky (1992), and the other from Maudlin (2014). If either is correct, the non-signaling correlations by themselves entail that the quantum world is causally nonlocal. This paper calls both arguments into question. However, it also points out that even if the criticisms succeed, this doesn't settle whether quantum mechanics is causally nonlocal. The answer to that question depends on considerations that go beyond the correlations alone. Arthur Fine's “random devices in harmony” Fine (1981) will play a role as a tool for thinking about correlations that violate Bell-type inequalities.
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Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics is devoted to all aspects of the history and philosophy of modern physics broadly understood, including physical aspects of astronomy, chemistry and other non-biological sciences. The primary focus is on physics from the mid/late-nineteenth century to the present, the period of emergence of the kind of theoretical physics that has come to dominate the exact sciences in the twentieth century. The journal is internationally oriented with contributions from a wide range of perspectives. In addition to purely historical or philosophical papers, the editors particularly encourage papers that combine these two disciplines.
The editors are also keen to publish papers of interest to physicists, as well as specialists in history and philosophy of physics.
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