> We are told that string theory needs 11 dimensions - could it be, for > example, that there is another dimension in which the entangled particles > are adjacent to each other? > Norman
Of course here we are speaking of spooky actions as possible *physical* effects, involving, or not, superluminal informations. So we are not speaking of spooky actions as *epistemological* effects (such as Rothstein, Page, Hardy, Peres, Cerf, Mermin, etc. described many times, and also Bohr, but in obscure terms). An interesting way of accepting *physical* non-locality (better, non-separability) has been proposed by Ne'eman [Found. Physics, 16, (1986), 361]. Ne'eman assumes that gauge theories should be regarded as geometric constructs, that is to say fiber bundle manifolds. One can construct a strongly correlated manifold (called principal fiber bundle) in which a structure group have global characteristic, such that operators are non-localized. Ne'eman says that what makes QM so weird is just our habit to visualize events in the usual space, and not in abstract spaces. Another possibility is that one suggested by Feynman [Int. J. Theor. Phys., 21, (1982), 467] and Mueckenheim [Phys. Rep., 133, (1986), 337] and Scully, Walther, and Schleich (1994), that is to say the 'negative probability solution'. This solution, imo, is something in between the *physical* and the *epistemological*. But it is not new. Dirac [Proc. Roy. Soc., 180A, (1941), 1] wrote "Thus negative energies and probabilities should be considered simply as things which do not appear in experimental results." And of course there is also Costa de Beauregard's theory about retrocausation, and many more similar models.
