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DetlefK

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3. Geometry without locality and unitarity. Sounds... tricky.

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Wed Sep 18, 2013, 07:35 AM

Sep 2013

locality = things interact by being at the same place at the same time

unitarity = if you do the opposite of what you did before, they will cancel out

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