Doug BrotherofCats Dandridge

One of the spookier aspects of Quantum Physics is how two particles separated by great space can know what the other is doing. An example of this is two particles split from the same particle that have gotten some distance from each other, maybe light years. They have two possible states which they only become when they are measured. Not that we don’t know until they are measured, but actually don’t possess until the measurement is made (this is like the Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment for those who know). Now one particle must be one state, and the other the opposite state, normally a spin. When one is measured it assumes one state, and the other particle, no matter how far away, assumes the other state, as if it knew what the first state was. This flies in the face of most logic, and what most of us know about the speed of light. In the normal Universe information cannot be transmitted faster than the speed of light. In the Quantum Universe it not only can go faster but must. I believe this is because the particles are connected through other dimensions that the four we are familiar with (three spatial and one time). In fact, in some of these dimensions the entire Universe is compressed into the Planck Scale, or 1.6 X 10 -35 meters, which is even smaller than the brains of some politicians. So a span of light years would be a span of almost nothing at this level.
What about in our macroscopic world? Do objects ever behave in this way in he world we are familiar with? Well. yes, in certain areas. Such as the cable appointment. Have you ever wondered why the cable man is never at your house when you are there for an appointment until the last possible moment, but always shows up at the earliest possible time when you aren’t there? I have. There have been times when I have slept in for an extra hour, sure that they wouldn’t be there on time, and then missed the knock at the door when they got there as advertised. And there have been the times when I was up, fully dressed and doing something on the computer, and they have not come, and not come, and run late, until they got there well after the quoted time, sometimes after I had left the house to go to another appointment. And I wondered, how did they know? Like the quantum particles, they seemed to know where I was at what time so they could avoid the conjunction I was hoping for, their working on the cable at a time when I was ready for them to work on the cable. Is there some kind of connection in one of the Planck dimensions between myself and the cable man? Or anyone and the cable man, as my story does not seem to be unique? Food for thought, just not too much thought.