But was Einstein correct after all and no signal, or particle, can travel faster than the speed of light. Einstein didn't like the new quantum physics.
Arvin is right that the conclusions are uncomfortable. It would appear that there is no time and that every thing is set out at once - and so the end is already with us. If it is already predetermined that two die will become entangled and then their combined value will be forever be 7 after that, then there is no need for signals to travel faster than the speed of light for this process to work.
But if Everything is all here at once, how did everything instantly come about - did everything just pop into existence already made? One moment it's not there, the next moment it is. Or has everything always been here, with no beginning in time. But there might not be any time anyway, it seems.
And yet, here we are figuring it all out, which is predetermined as well. That means it has already been figured out before we got here. Weird! But perhaps we will never fully understand it?
Yep, it feels uncomfortable.
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It would appear that there is no time and that every thing is set out at once - and so the end is already with us. kv
We know that Space is being created as the Universe expands so why not Time too?
The research is in its infancy, so a lot of ideas could change in time.
I prefer the theory that the future is set before us, but it keeps changing depending on what we do and what happens. That's even more elegant and mysterious.
"Superdeterminism" elegantly explains all the supposed difficulties arising from quantum physics. And it is correct.
The moral and mental difficulties we have with it are holdovers from 19th-20th century views downplaying initial and boundary conditions in causality, cross many fields of thought.
For more see various articles here
http://philosophyofscience.webstarts.com/
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