Adlam Emily
Basic Research Community for Physics, Leipzig 04315, Germany.
Entropy (Basel). 2018 Jan 10;20(1):41. doi: 10.3390/e20010041.
Since the discovery of Bell's theorem, the physics community has come to take seriously the possibility that the universe might contain physical processes which are spatially nonlocal, but there has been no such revolution with regard to the possibility of nonlocal processes. In this article, we argue that the assumption of temporal locality is actively limiting progress in the field of quantum foundations. We investigate the origins of the assumption, arguing that it has arisen for historical and pragmatic reasons rather than good scientific ones, then explain why temporal locality is in tension with relativity and review some recent results which cast doubt on its validity.
自贝尔定理被发现以来，物理学界开始认真对待宇宙可能包含空间非定域物理过程的可能性，但在非定域过程的可能性方面却没有发生这样的变革。在本文中，我们认为时间定域性假设正在积极限制量子基础领域的进展。我们研究了该假设的起源，认为它是出于历史和实用主义原因而非良好的科学原因出现的，然后解释了为什么时间定域性与相对论存在冲突，并回顾了一些对其有效性提出质疑的近期结果。
