What you're describing could be done with classical physics. Have one penny and two lockets. Place the penny blindly in one of the two lockets. Take one locket

What you're describing could be done with classical physics. Have one penny and two lockets. Place the penny blindly in one of the two lockets. Take one locket across the world. Opening it instantly lets you whether the other locket has contains the penny. And the point of this description is this is not what's weird about quantum entanglement. What's weird about quantum entanglement is you have two different measurement types that are non-orthogonal and they combine according to quantum logic rather than classical logic [1]. Having a particle in a state of this sort can't be explained by any analogy to discreet events occurring beforehand. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic#Quantum_logic_as_the_logic_of_observables https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic#Quantum_logic_as... Edit: Whether this is "spooky action at a distance" is in the eye of the beholder. One thing is isn't able to be is fully reducible to actions happening on something like a "classical time line" but another thing is isn't to able to do is transmit information.