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In Everett's theory, there are no point particles, just a wavefunction ψ(x1,...,xN,t) that depends on N position vectors xj.
“However, in this theory (unlike in de Broglie-Bohm mechanics [24]), there are no point particles, just a wavefunction ψ ( x 1 , ..., x N , t ) that depends on N position vectors x j (since ψ is a correlation field, this was identified with a 'webfunction' in [58] and with a 'multi-field' in [59]).”
From An Elementary Proof That Everett's Quantum Multiverse Is Nonlocal: Bell-Locality and Branch-Symmetry in the Many-Worlds Interpretation (2023) · cites this paper as [59]
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- Hubert, M., & Romano, D.
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