I think you’re getting angry at the wrong things and taking me too far. I didn’t at all mean we can’t believe or trust physical reality. Neither do I doubt special relativity, or specifically the Lorentz invariance.

I wasn’t meaning to insult your intelligence, but now I feel you’ve done that for me.

What about a third option that reality exists and it is just nondeterministic?

There’s still a pattern in the results, so by one means or another we want to explain the results. Just calling it nondeterministic, if I understand right, would be just saying you can’t predict it from prior observations.

So, whatever language you use to describe this puzzling situation, the puzzling situation thus far remains.

since we know the universe is local

A priori? Or because it best fits with Relativity? It sounds about as strong as saying, “we know time is universal.” It’s obvious, has to be true, but apparently not how the universe functions.

It is strongly force sensitive, but the force is always perpendicular to its trajectory around the sun, so that to a naive eye it seems not to be responding to any force.

It’s like Yoda force-pulling Windu constantly in a circle ready for a hammer throw.

Quantum results are hard to explain, but proven (by experiment) to be real. There’s a particular mathematical/logical definition of something being ‘real’ and ‘local’, that I’ve still only half got my head around, and it should be true but isn’t.

The main experiment is two particles that, if you check one, it affects what you’ll see in the other in a particular, but subtle , way. And it’s proven mathematically impossible to find an explanation where they don’t either communicate faster than the speed of light (so, not ‘local’) but the effect actually happens (‘real’).

The trick is in the statistics - the pattern of results - that match up between the two particles in this very particular way. And one way to explain it is that different options are also happening, but in a different universe - i.e. every time two different things could happen, reality splits into two realities, one where this happens and one where that happens.

That’s for specific quantum events, but some think those such quantum events underlie all choices and possibilities in reality. So, scale up that idea and you get ‘infinite’ (actually just very very many) parallel universes, one for every possibility that could ever have happened, branching off into more each time a (quantum) choice happens.