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DrChinese, I have read about that experiment. Thanks. A bigger mystery is how simple organic beings can even have such conversations, let alone understand as much as we do. I wax philosophical, forgive me... Daryl

ZapperZ, I reviewed your article: Why is Quantum Mechanics SO difficult? "You cannot use your existing understanding of the universe to try to understand the various concepts of QM. There is a discontinuity between the two. It is only via the mathematical continuity of the description can...

RandallB. Thank you. You have hit exactly on what I was getting at. You are right of course that we cannot look at space and time separately but rather as "spacetime". That may be explanation enough. But there still remains the issue of how it can happen at all. Again we are trying to...

You said : "Your measurement only happens to select one of the available values, and when you do that, the partner is automatically selected because u and v are not separable (as in mathematically)." But the particles are separated in space (if not in time), and while the math may make sense...

I guess I can't re-word my question much differently. I assumed mentioning the ERP Aspect experiments would explain. Very simply. Two entangled particles head off in different directions, I force a change to something such as spin, or polarization, and presto the partner changes quicker...

Wow, I thought all you guys were really smart, but let me try to explain my dumb question. Please don't accuse me of "thinking" in layman terms I use. Think about Aspect's ERP experiments. You change a complimentary of a particle, and "like magic" the other particle can be measured to...

NO they are NOT communicating. But if the complimentary factors were set at the time of entanglement, then there would be no mystery, but it "appears" to change FTL later, unless the time of the change is the same as the time of the entanglement, then due to relatively, no mystery. My...

I'm beginning to really like this forum. This is a lot of fun! Uh... what about the ERP, entanglement time thing...?

Great responses but what about the time factor? What about Aspect's ERP experiments in which changes to one particle manifest themselves in the partner at what would be FTL speeds if they were "communicating"? Can relativity possibly play a part here? I've heard "no" but not "why" time is not...

I've seen little reference material on my question, except the occasional statement that "that is not the case", but no explanation as to why it is not the case. I suppose this is a common question asked by the layman, but that's me so, I'm asking. If entangled particles are able to...

ZapperZ - That's exactly what I'm getting at. We have the remarkable ability to often "imagine" things that turn out to be true. I support the investigation of such "imagination" or suspicion wholeheartedly. I just don't happen to buy dark matter when I think there are other and simpler...

koantum - Good response, at least I think you see where I'm coming from. I didn't mean for this post to get off on a tangent. But I have a few questions that I would like to get a scientific perspective on. Certainly the nature of matter is a pretty broad topic. I'm sure I will ask some...

Certainly I have been overgeneralizing. I don't mean to imply that science should be subservient to philosophy, but I think it should be used to separate the chaff from the wheat as I said. I don't think it necessarily healthy to give no credence to philosophy. Of course by the word...

ZapperZ - Certainly there is no need to ascribe "cosmic significance" to anything (although that can be fun), my point is that at some point there is no harm in exploring suspicions, and certainly no shame in having them. I think its best when math confirms a suspicion as opposed to...

Thanks guys. Not being a physicist I really don't understand the "shut up and calculate" mindset. If we can't be in awe at what we find, then what's the point? If we can't imagine where it might lead us, then why follow? Bohr referred to "meaningless questions", but how can any question...