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> Entanglement is just a statistical effect in our measurements — we can’t say what is happening or why that occurs. We can calculate that effect because we’ve fitted models, but that’s it.

Bell's theorem was a prediction from math before people found ways to measure and confirm it. A model based on fitting to observations would have happened in the other order.



> A model based on fitting to observations would have happened in the other order.

We’d already had models which said that certain quantities were conserved in a system — and entanglement says that is true of certain systems with multiple particles.

To repeat myself:

> Entanglement is just a statistical effect in our measurements — we can’t say what is happening or why that occurs.

Bell’s inequality is just a way to measure that correlation, ie, statistical effect — and I think it’s supporting my point the way to measure entanglement is via statistical effect.

ER=EPR is an example of a model that tries to explain what and why of entanglement.




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