What the Bleep Do We Know!? Nuthin.
Suppose you are a resident of a planet in Alpha Centauri. Back on
Earth, a friend enters your name in a lottery in which your chance of
winning the prize of a million dollars is one in a million. If you
win the lottery, your probability of winning collapses
instantaneously to unity, and your wealth increases instantaneously
by a million dollars. But it takes four years for the news, traveling
at the speed of light, to reach you and your Centauri bank. You can't
start spending the money until that happens. That's how it is in
quantum physics. The collapse of the abstract wave function is just a
mathematical artifice. Even though this happens at faster than the
speed of light, any signal and other practical result will be limited
by relativity and the laws of conventional physics.
<http://csicop.org/sb/2007-09/stenger.html>Link
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