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On Stapp-Unruh-Mermin Discussion on Quantum Nonlocality: Quantum Jumps and Relativity

Vladimir S. Mashkevich

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9801032

Abstract

We argue that the participants of the discussion have overlooked an essential circumstance, in view of which Stapp's fifth proposition fails. The circumstance is that though L and R measurements, being causally separated, are not invariantly time ordered, quantum-jump hypersurfaces associated with the measurements are causelikewise ordered. Stapp's fifth proposition is true iff L hypersurface precedes R one; but within the limits of special relativity, it is impossible to determine the causelike order of those hypersurfaces. The entire Stapp's construct is revised.

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