> If so, that is not a great analogy other than to illustrate a historical & incorrect perspective.

Read the next part, I was discussing the idea thought of by Einstein that was dismissed by Bell's theorem.

> Okay, say you 'do some entanglement of multiple particles stored in two separate tubes' where you know there is some kind of pattern in the entanglement. Is the issue that there is no way to know how to find that pattern without possessing both 'tubes'?

I'm not sure what you mean by this, can you elaborate?