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Where Do Space, Time and Gravity Come From?

The Joy of Why

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Is It a Violation of Special Relativity?

The way the universe works involves correlations that travel faster than the speed of ight, but in some well defined sense. If you imagine these two particles moving back to back, and one person detects one, and there's another one, yo a light year away, who's going to detect the other one? The point is that they don't know what your measurement outcome is. You would have to tell them. So even though, in the global point of view, now, the location where the other particles can be detected is known to god or to the universe, it is not known to any particular person sitting at any location within the universe. It takes the speed of light time to take

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