Response to “Comment on ‘Nonlocal character of quantum theory,’ ” by Abner Shimony and Howard Stein [Am. J. Phys. 69 (8), 848–853 (2001)

Abstract

The question raised by Shimony and Stein is examined and used to explain in more detail a key point of my proof that any theory that conforms to certain general ideas of orthodox relativistic quantum field theory must permit transfers of information over space-like intervals. It is also explained why this result is not a problem for relativistic quantum theory, but, on the contrary, opens the door to a satisfactory realistic relativistic quantum theory based on the ideas of Tomonaga, Schwinger, and von Neumann.