From: richalivingston@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, June 13, 2022 at 6:39:14 AM UTC-5, Sylvia Else wrote:   
   > The very fact that we can see this time reversal in the theory, together   
   > with the fact that these processes cannot be used to send information   
   > faster than light, is a good reason to think that there is no action at   
   > a distance, spooky or otherwise. In particular, the time reversal   
   > immediately raises the question of who is the actor, and who the actee[*]   
      
   I don't like the term "spooky action at a distance".  It implies something   
   non-sensical, yet there is all this evidence of something happening   
   that is very different from our normal macroscopic based intuition.   
      
   > Quantum mechanics tells us what results we'll get. It doesn't say   
   > anything about how it works, and popular science descriptions are   
   > usually just misleading.   
      
   You are correct, of course, that QM does not offer any mechanism   
   for this behavior, and I agree that the popular descriptions are   
   little or no help.  But I do think that this is something worth thinking   
   about in order to get a deeper understanding, perhaps beyond QM.   
   I've been studying QM since the early 1970's, and it is only in the last   
   decade or so that there has been much interest in the "interpretation"   
   of QM and what it implies about the mechanisms of particle   
   propagation.  I think this is long over due.   
      
   > Sylvia.   
   >   
   > [*] Spell check says that this isn't a word, but what does it know?   
      
   BTW, I like "actee" as a word, even if it isn't in the dictionary!   
      
   Rich L.   
      
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