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amelius • today at 11:30 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

What is the propagation speed of this pilot wave?

EDIT: ok, I asked AI and this speed is infinite, which is why the theory doesn't mesh well with relativity.


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pja • today at 12:31 PM

Quantum effects travel instantaneously in standard QM, no pilot wave required: What’s limited to light speed is /information/.

You can entangle two particles in QM, separate them by light years & when you measure the state of one of them you will instantaneously determine the state of the second one, no matter how far away it is. But you cannot transfer information by doing so - information must plod along at light speed between the two.

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