Everything counts & local reality

The title of the show is comprised of a the title of a Depeche Mode song from 1982 and the subject of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, two ideas I kept in mental parallel while working on this show.

Since I was a child, I’ve been driven mad by palpable sense of “loss of something I never had” when I hear “Everything Counts.” This is some neurobiological response to minor chords: an earthy,
visceral experience of a what paradox is.

About local reality from Scientific American:

One of the more unsettling discoveries in the past half a century is that the universe is not locally real. In this context, “real” means that objects have definite properties independent of observation—an apple can be red even when no one is looking. “Local” means that objects can be influenced only by their surroundings and that any influence cannot travel faster than light. Investigations at the frontiers of quantum physics have found that these things cannot both be true. Instead the evidence shows that objects are not influenced solely by their surroundings, and they may also lack definite properties prior to measurement.