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Yes, and he was right not to be easy with that, because there are no faster than light effects. Entanglement is a state in which some measurements of objects ar
by dools 11y ago
Yes, and he was right not to be easy with that, because there are no faster than light effects. Entanglement is a state in which some measurements of objects are correlated. End of story. There's no "wires" connecting them, it's just how shit works. It's no more spooky than how light travels in a vacuum. If you try to understand light as propagating the same as sound, it's spooky. But light works differently than sound. Measurement of very small things works differently than measurement of very large things. It's just not that big of a deal. Like it's important and interesting but everyone gets hung up on this spooky bullshit.
- tim333 11y agoThere is something that looks rather like a faster than light effect - in the two photons experiments the correlations depend on the angle between the polarisers even if they are far enough apart that a light speed signal could not relay the polariser angle in time. Whether you see that as spooky is a bit in the eye of the beholder. But it's certainly a surprising thing. My guess would be its like that because quantum mechanics is the fundamental nature of the universe and space and time are an apparent effect of that. So in odd situations like the entanglement experiments quantum mechanics works as usual but something about space and time doesn't work like you might think it would. A bit like space and time being a leaky abstraction over quantum mechanics to make a programming analogy.
- dools 11y agoRight. I completely agree. And I guess what I have a problem with is not the word spooky but the notion that there is "action at a distance".