Physicists Seek Answers to Quantum Correlations

One theory that takes some getting used to is that space and time are essentially the same thing. This means if you function like we do, time seems to be linear, and space has distance.

However, if *either* space or time are different for you, or don’t even affect you, then time and space will be very different, at least from your point of view, as it were.

It has been theorized that all matter and energy is just a single field, that is “out of time”. Therefore it can exist in a multitude of places and in different states simultaneously, at least from our point of view. When it clusters together, it appears to form increasingly immense super-clusters with radically different compositions.

Everything in the universe is just endless iterations of a single field, from our point of view. From its point of view, it is just one.

A vast number of iterations of this single field would be needed to even create a subatomic particle. On a grand scale, there are mathematically optimal stable configurations that form the organizational patterns of our universe, for example. Beyond a certain size, patterns are dependent on these configurations for stability. For example, the triangle and the sphere. They “last” longer, whereas other configurations are less stable and break up.

So, this being said, look at our “matched pair” of photons. In truth, all photons are “matched” to each other in complex stable configuration, but these two are identical twins. Mirror images, and importantly, they may be the same photon. From their “point of view” they occupy the same space and time, even if they are a billion miles apart, from our “point of view”.

This is how they achieve “spooky action at a distance”. Because they are the same photon, just with a different space and time from ours. If “they” are in reality “it”, than when we change “it”, “they” both appear to change at the same time. They don’t have to communicate with each other, because they are the same thing.

Importantly, this also implies that photons have some degree of individuality. Otherwise, when a single photon was changed, every other photon in the universe would also change, and not just its matched pair.

Who knows? Perhaps when we change the spin of a photon, it also changes the spin of a quadrillion quadrillion other photons in the universe. But we only see the change in the photon twin we are watching.

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