The Conventionality of Synchronization and the Causal Structure of Quantum Mechanics

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2006-06-28

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0606230v2

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, 1 figure

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Measuring velocities requires the synchronization of spatially-separated clocks. Because this synchronization must precede the determination of velocities, no system of clock synchronization--such as that based on Einstein's presumption of light-speed isotropy--can ever be founded on an experimentally-validated velocity. I argue that this very old observation, which lingers in the philosophical literature under the heading ``Conventionality of Synchronization,'' suggests an explanation of why ``spooky'' quantum correlations can transfer no information at any speed, superluminal or otherwise. This work constitutes the first application of the Conventionality doctrine outside of Relativity itself.

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