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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6545992" data-attributes="member: 177">As others have already noted... not really.  In General relativity, we never disagree about what happened.  We never have the case where I think there was a tree between you and the target, and you do not think there was a tree, and one of us determines which is correct.  We always both agree that you had a clear shot.  We may disagree on when the event happened, in comparison to other events, but there is never a case of, "actually, you were wrong, and this event actually did occur, please update."Again, not really.  Because we both already agree that there's a 50% chance the cat lives, and a 50% chance it dies.  Unlike the video game analogy, where we each think the universe is in a different state, and a decision is made about which of us is correct, in QM, we generally agree on the state of the universe, and it doesn't matter at all which system detects it first.  We both agree that, until one of us looks at it, *nether* of us knows the actual state in the box.The client/host game system is about information lag.  Each client has its own little universe, and it may differ from the server's.  Every once in a while, you get an update to match your client universe to the server, and when you update, some of your history gets rubbed out as incorrect.  In the real world, there is no ultimate "host" system.  There are only clients.Except, in the client/host view of things, each one of us thinks we know *exactly* where the particle is.  But, for some reason one of us is decided to be correct, the other incorrect, and there is a discontinuity when the system updates, and some of us see things teleport about to match the chosen reality, and others don't.  The host/client universe has inconsistent histories, while we do not.The guy who said that God does not play dice with the world, probably not so much a gamer <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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