The essence of the scientific method is that it is based on being able to repeat results. If you get the same results every time you do the same operation, and when anyone else who repeats it get the same result, you can safely conclude that you have a scientific explanation. But quantum mechanics says no, you have to assume everything happens with a probability but not with a 100% certainty. It's always statistical only. The two views are not compatible. Now that gives us a problem, because QM breaks science. Yet physicists tell us that QM is real. Basically they are implying we cannot trust science anymore. I realized this tonight when I realized that quantum connectivity might mean that sympathetic magic might have a real basis, but would be very hard to prove as it would be probabilistic in operation. Holy smoke. Might we want to rethink parts of old-time magic after all? Something to ponder.
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There is a subtle difference. In the "classical" case, if we were to somehow hypothetically know the initial conditions to enough accuracy, we could predict the result. But bell's theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem) and the experimentally observed inequalities show that there are no "local hidden variables" that one could measure to determine the exact outcome in a quantum experiment. So either we are misunderstanding the problem and interpreting the bell experiments incorrectly (which I think is a definite possibility) or quantum behavior is just intrinsically different from macroscopic behavior in that we cannot absolutely predict anything.
Then you could get into David Bohm's ideas about the implicate and explicate orders of reality, and how perhaps there are "global hidden variables" that would determine the outcome of a quantum experiment that lie within an "implicate" order that is unseen to our "explicate" order of effects from this deeper order of reality.
You can't prove absence.
We just don't know mechanism behind entaglement. Mostly because it could ruin Einshten bullshit about speed of light as maximum possible speed of anything. There is nothing strange that those who try to keep itself in modern science trying to avoid anything that could spawn something FTL at any cost.