So the average distribution of everything in the Universe provides a frame of reference against which such changes are measured. Somehow, the “local” object is influenced by everything “out there.” Mach’s Principle tells us that a particle’s inertia is due to some interaction of that particle with all the other objects in the Universe. Just what that interaction is has long been a mystery. The pilot wave interpretation, and non-locality, may be the resolution of that puzzle. This leads to an interesting conclusion, which also features in another interpretation (Solace 3). The de Broglie–Bohm
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