The author &quot;makes it simple&quot; by using a crappy get out for explaining the seeming faster than light influence in quantum entanglement:<p>&gt;This “spooky action at a distance,” as Einstein called it, might seem to require transmission of information — in this case, information about what measurement was performed — at a rate faster than the speed of light.<p>&gt;But does it? Until I know the result you obtained, I don’t know what to expect. I gain useful information when I learn the result you’ve measured, not at the moment you measure it. And any message revealing the result you measured must be transmitted in some concrete physical way, slower (presumably) than the speed of light.<p>The thing is when the results are obtained you can write them down or similar. Unless you are presuming the written results and other records change as you mail them to each other you are left with the faster than light type paradox. I&#x27;m with Einstein on that one in that something odd is happening.<p>My guess is that quantum mechanics is the fundamental nature of the universe and the appearance of space and time are a resulting epiphenomenon. As a result of that the particles appear far apart but are in some ways are still connected.