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>There's no locality.

How so? QFT is Lorentz invariant. Even has such a thing as the norm flux.



My bad; QFT actually postulates locality. I was thinking about the casual set theory which strives to solve some of the QFT's difficulties, and where locality is an emergent / statistical phenomenon rather than a postulated condition.


> Lorentz invariance is also violated in QFT assuming non-zero temperature.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_covariance


If you couple your system to a heat path that is at rest wrt a specific Lorentz frame, you of course lose Lorentz incariance. On the other hand the lagrangian of the standard model itself is to my knowledge fully Lorentz invariant.


I don't know what they talk about there, but it sounds like some kind of thermodynamic approximation is involved there. Does thermodynamics survive Lorentz transformation?




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