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agree. The issue that is confusing in explanations of entanglement is the use of a statistical measurement to a model of an individual event. Entanglement is a state made after the observations of many events. Before there is a red ball and a blue ball, there is a precursor, purple ball. That purple ball splits and two balls wrapped in paper are created. They can travel great distances over long times to separate locations, A and B. When some humans start to unwrap them, they are amazed at the correlation-one blue is always matched by one red. So until the balls are unwrapped, how are the humans to describe them? They use the word superposition-unfortunately, many interpret that as a SIMULTANEOUS existence of both states in each ball. Whereas in reality there are many events - the humans at location A see both colors as do the humans at location B. That does not mean that individual particles assume both states. A similar confounding statistic was taught in grade school. The average family has 2.5 children. Yet half a live child was never born.


> Whereas in reality there are many events - the humans at location A see both colors as do the humans at location B

This is one of many interpretations, I don't think it's fair to label conjecture as "reality" yet.




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