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Realism, in the physics sense, means that an object has certain values even if nobody has bothered to measure those values. Thus, an electron has a location even if it has not yet been measured. The act of measurement, which collapses the wave function, forces the electron to "reveal" its location.

Localism, means that one event can not influence another event that is separated from the former by the speed of light times the time of the two events. In other words, the information that "Event A has occurred" can not travel faster than the speed of light.

Both of these concepts make sense if we agree with relativity. Unfortunately for our common sense, experimental evidence is rapidly mounting that one or the other must be false. We are finding that, in our universe, the results of one measurement "communicates" the measured value to another spot faster than light. Either localism is not valid or the two events are entangled to the point where their possible values are in a superposition until a measurement is made.

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