Reply #3: I don't think this is new, I had heard years ago of similar. [View All]

I think it was referred to as instantaneous communication. The way I had heard (I was hanging around with a pair of research physicists that day, long story), it went like this. When this one particular sub-atomic particle breaks down, it always divides into two particles with opposite characterstics, say a muon with left hand spin and a muon with right hand spin. (its not necessarily muons, I just like that word, and its not necessarily spin, but its some characteristic that has two poles, two forms) What physicists have found is that if you take these two muons and separate them, and change the spin of one of them, the spin of the other one will instantaneously change, so that you stil have one with left spin and one with right spin. Like the universe demands this particular symmetry. But the thing is it happens instantaneously; thus the information that the spin of the one has changed travels to the other faster than the speed of light.

I remember that there was talk of a theory of interconnectedness, that the two particles are somehoe still conected wven when they are apart.

I think this goes back decades.