[Physicist]

Er, I may be way off base here but I suspect the notion of the myth of matter being exploded has to do with the violation of Bell's Inqualities, i.e. nonlocality.

I haven't forgotten nonlocality. It's yet another example of material behaving as material behaves.

(You all may be interested in an illustration of Bell's Inequality that I concocted for use on FreeRepublic, but I warn you that my experience in running it past a few people shows that it's not nearly as easily grasped as I had hoped.)

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you oh so very much for your reply!

And thank you for that link and dialogue! It is excellent - reminds me of the tortoise in Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid.

I do hope you are planning on writing books for the general public! You have a great way with words that would help all of us understand. One thing though...

Some of the concepts are difficult to grasp from words alone, and charts and graphs can be intimidating. It is my hope that some physicist (ahem...) will publish in e-book form with selectable animations like this one.

I could visualize your dialogue with an animation that follows the conversation!

[betty boop]

I haven't forgotten nonlocality. It's yet another example of material behaving as material behaves.

What a perfectly charming "dialogue," Physicist -- and so helpful a description of the "ins-and-outs" of nonlocality! Thank you so very much!

I have a couple questions begging for answers (that I do not have): Is a photon "material?" Where does each of the paired photons get its "instruction set" from?