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Special relativity requires that (at least) macroscopic events in a space-time region I are not influenced by changes of the macroscopic conditions in another, spacelike separated region II. It is shown that previous attempts at deriving a contradiction between this postulate and the predictions of quantum mechanics for EPR experiments are inconclusive.
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Kraus, K. (1985). Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Experiments and Macroscopic Locality. In: Tarozzi, G., van der Merwe, A. (eds) Open Questions in Quantum Physics. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5245-4_6
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