The Einstein quotes are rather apt. There was a famous disagreement between some well known physicists about what quantum entanglement meant for the principle o

The Einstein quotes are rather apt. There was a famous disagreement between some well known physicists about what quantum entanglement meant for the principle of locality. The argument that you explain above is the same as that used by some of the brightest minds in physics in the 1930s, including Einstein: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr-Einstein_debates#The_argument_of_EPR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr-Einstein_debates#The_argum... It was a hotly debated topic for several decades. Until 1964 we weren't even sure we could ever resolve it, then a fellow named John Bell published a testable theorem showing a divergence between quantum mechanics and the classical explanation you have above (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_theorem). In 1972, the first successful experiment of this theorem was performed, and incredibly, it showed entanglement is in fact more complicated than can be explained with classical mechanics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments. The experiments have been repeated and refined over the years and little by little, the once common theory of local variables is now almost completely dead.