Atheists: Since you don't believe in God, how do you explain "spooky action at a distance"?

We don't (yet) have an explanation for quantum entanglement -- that means we don't know, it doesn't mean "god did it."

String theory provides an explanation, though it can't yet be verified experimentally; if the 11 (or so) dimensions in string theory exist, and particles are strings "vibrating" in all of those dimensions, the entanglement could be information exchanged across one of those dimensions whose "space" is always collapsed, no matter how far apart the particles get in our four dimensions. In other words, particles could be "at a distance" in our four dimensions, but touching in another dimension, and there would be no "spooky action at a distance" to explain.

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(((Olga!!!)))

edit: No, I don't expect you to "believe" anything -- just accept that there could be an explanation that's not "spooky" at all :)

If you have hard time visualizing it, think of a flat 2D piece of paper; you can put dots (points) on the paper that are widely separated in 2 dimensions, but whose third dimension are all exactly the same -- zero. They're all "touching" in a third dimension, no matter how far apart they are in two.

There is not a definitive answer yet, although this has been observed experimentally the mechanisms behind it have not yet been determine. People are theorizing and researching this subject to find the answer to that.

We don't know everything about how the universe works. Just because our understanding is limited does not mean that "God" fills the holes. If we just understood everything we observed there wouldn't really be a need for scientific research would there? We'd just know by observing. If we knew everything right now we wouldn't need to research either.

Edit for Speculation:

The entanglement could occur in a higher dimension. For example, if the entanglement occurred in the fourth dimension (time) and made it so that the state of each particle was a function of (t) then the particles would always appear to be linked to each other. This would have the outward appearance of one particle acting upon the other. There are probably big flaws with this, that's why it is speculation.

We'll be able to explain it using reasoning and logic soon enough, not using an ancient superstition.

In the same way 500 years ago, people would have thought that a solar eclipse was the work of an angry God. I think this is the exactly the same. History has shown that every "God created it" explanation has been undeniabley proven wrong.

Who knows, religion might be dead in 1000 years time. Because science has laughed in its face completely.

Well, since you do believe in God- Explain "spooky action at a distance" to me :)

Quantum entanglement...

they're still woring on it...

The vision of a god tracking each quantum particle makes me thing of a cat chasing a light beam... LOL

IMHO

It must be teh superstrings. One end of the string is glued to one particle, the other is glued to a different particle. Or something.

Electro Magnetic fields .

Take it from your number one bra-ket admirer: it's LUST my gorgeous Olga; pure and unadulterated LUST --- the kind that can transcend all spacetime. ;D

And don't you let 'em whisper all that nonsense about quantum muantum strangledment in your voluptuous ears, my ravishing one.

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I love Father Earl's answer! LMAO!

Not-yet-explained physics?