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Detection of Empty Waves Contradicts either Special Relativity or Quantum Mechanics

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It is shown that the very possibility of detecting hypothetical empty waves, combined with very general and apparently innocent assumption about their physical behaviour, contradicts either special relativity or orthodox quantum-mechanical description of EPR-type experiments.

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  1. Institute of Mathematics, University of Gdańsk, ul. Wita Stwosza 57, 80-952, Gdańsk, Poland

    Jaroslaw Pykacz

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  1. University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA

    Alwyn van der Merwe

  2. University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Augusto Garuccio

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Pykacz, J. (1994). Detection of Empty Waves Contradicts either Special Relativity or Quantum Mechanics. In: van der Merwe, A., Garuccio, A. (eds) Waves and Particles in Light and Matter. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2550-9_35

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