bildramer

bildramer t1_irnuucr wrote

I, as one of those people, think it's that others often misunderstand the balance of evidence. Most often it's not "A, but it could be B, let's discuss" - it's "A, and unless multiple miracles in a row have happened everywhere every millisecond to explain why in all of human history we've seen A when B was actually the case, B is excluded". Or sometimes it's "A and B are both different wordings describing the exact same predictions". Laymen confuse things so much it's often difficult to determine which one it is. That's all once you have discussed things a bit and clarified - to begin with, most of the time it's just "A and B are both fanciful ideas journalists made up and actual professional philosophers somehow confused for real physics". It gets annoying.

In this case, regarding "spooky action at a distance" etc.: nothing about it is new science, nothing is "interesting" (something you'd see in the frontiers), nothing is controversial or unexplained or even hard to communicate - it's all undergrad stuff taught to undergrads for over half a century now. Anyone with actual knowledge is not eager to demonstrate having it, they're just sick of it by now.

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