"What is the 'means' by which the non-local connection is actualized? ...[S]ome possible responses ...(1) The connection is mediated ...by particles or fields that propogate at superliminal fields. ...(2) The connection propogates backward in time. ...(3) Physical space has more than three spatial dimensions. ...(4) [P]hysical space is not simply connected. ... Option (2) violates the Principle of Causality. ... Based on the results of tests of Bell-type inequalities... non-local connections have at least the features... (a) not decreasing with distance; (b) cannot be shielded against; and (c) are highly selective in what they effect. The[se] features are consistent with Option (4)..."
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Peter J. Riggs, Quantum Causality: Conceptual Issues in the Causal Theory of Quantum Mechanics (2009) pp. 106-107, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Natural Science 23.
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