Recent content by vegasgeorge

I'm still digesting Bell's Theorum and Einstein's 1935 EPR paper, and will get back to you all on all that. In the meantime, as I see this discussion developing in my absence, I have to ask, doesn't Occam's Razor come into this? Wouldn't the assumption that the two entangled particles had...

Thanks for the direction. I'm trying to understand the basics of Bell's Theorem. Can someone tell me exactly what is meant by "local hidden variables?" I get the "local" part. But I'm not at all sure what "hidden variables" refers to.

OK, I get it. But the "spooky" part isn't the observed results of the second particle. It's the notion that the initially unobserved particles "contain all possible values". That's equivalent to asking the old tree falling in a forest question, or if the moon exists if no one is looking at...

I don't see why the "action" part of this problem is necessary. Two entangled particles are created, each with opposite qualities. One is observed. So, naturally the other has opposite qualities. Nothing has changed. There has been no "action." The observation of the one hasn't changed the...