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But perhaps the more prosaic reality is that any attempt to describe
non-classical events with language based on classical laws and
perceptions cannot succeed.
... And so we are left with the word problem. The photons aren't
exactly "connected" and they aren't exaclty "communicating". So what
are they doing? They are correlated ... And what does that mean? Here
even metaphores are useless ... You just have to learn the mathematics.
... There is no reason to expect that our linguistic toolkits will
contain tweezers fine enough to grasp the slipery concepts that hold
in the subatomic realm.
Language evolved to help people get around on earth, not down inside
atoms. The deeper mystery is why the language of mathematics seems to
work so well on that distant realm. Physicists don't even pretend to
have an answer.