> the balls don't have a concrete value until one of the boxes are opened,
> opening one box instantly influences the state of the ball in the other box
How do you know that without opening the box?
> opening one box instantly influences the state of the ball in the other box
How do you know that without opening the box?
It is more like you get to choose to measure only one of the red, green or blue channels. If you send a message containing which channel and the measurement, the other person can do the same measurement and find the complementary value. Without the channel and the original measurement the other person just sees random behavior.
The spooky part is that I don't choose the color channel to measure until after the entangled balls are separated
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation
And Schrödinger's cat never told us what really happened inside the box :)