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I assume you're already conversant on the subject but from my limited understanding I believe that the transactional interpretation comes to some of the same conclusions as Bohm's interpretation, all without directly positing non-locality - I like it as an interpretation because I abhor both the many-worlds interpretation and non-locality (except as a hypothetical means to an end, but how satisfying is that eh?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation http://www.npl.washington.edu/npl/int_rep/tiqm/TI_toc.html It requires a little mental gymnastics to understand what it means for wavefunction collapse, but that might just be me, I don't have the capacity to articulate it in a coherent manner sorry, but just thought I'd post the links to you just in case you're interested

I thought that string theory started a particle off with having the planck mass, and then via quantum fluctuations most of that mass is cancelled out, leaving the remainder as the total mass. Also - and sorry for being another pest in this thread - but how exactly does the Standard Model of particle physics determine *why* particles have the mass they do. I was under the impression that the SM just takes these arbitrary values as a given and basically ignores the underlying reason, or am I wrong

But if you've two things rotating around each other wouldn't this present a similar situation as a giant circular spacestation with artificial gravity?

If they are in orbit around something, doesn't that introduce acceleration and thus wouldn't GR apply instead?