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Supererogatory Superluminality, Bradley Monton, Brian Kierland

Brian Kierland

We argue that any superluminal theory T is empirically equivalent to a nonsuperluminal theory T^∗, with the following constraints on T^∗: T^∗ preserves the spacetime intervals between events as entailed by T , T^∗ is naturalistic (as long as T is), and all the events which have causes according to T also have causes according to T^∗. Tim Maudlin (1996) defines standard interpretations of quantum mechanics as interpretations ‘according to which there was a unique set of outcomes in Aspect’s laboratory, which outcomes occurred at spacelike separation’, and Maudlin claims that standard …