A World Without Nuance

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>This is only weird if you don’t understand the concept of object permanence. If a red marble and a green marble are in a bag and you take out a green marble, you can be certain that the marble in the bag is red. Entangled particles are like this because when they are ‘born’ they are automatically opposites and they remain opposites as long as they are not disturbed. This only doesn’t make sense if you do not understand that there are initial conditions about which you do not and cannot know.

The above is only an "explanation" if you don't know about Quantum Mechanics...

She goes into the experimental discrepancy between quantum and classical probability and then explains it in terms of a systematic error caused by a shaking reference frame. Taking only part of the argument out of context is misleading.

And the explanation of the "shaking reference frame" is wrong. It borders on conspiracy theory ("1000s of prominent physicists didn't understand this, but I do").

Hilbert space being used to remove the effect of a shaking reference frame from a calculation is a conspiracy theory? Tell that to the people who use Hilbert space to remove the impact of a non-inertial reference frame from quad-copter drone control calculations. The quality of physics education varies widely and it may disappoint some people to learn that their teachers weren't that good.

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