Quantum mechanics is very strange. The best explanation I’ve run across is some of the string or invisible dimension theories. In these theories the entangled pairs would only appear to be unconnected, as they’re actually connected by mechanisms we can’t detect. At present.
If these theories are true, some of the more bizarre sci-fi concepts become conceivable, including instantaneous travel, FTL travel and even time travel.
Very interesting stuff.
Sorry about the somewhat unreadable way my post came out. When I used Spellcheck to correct some typos, it, for some reason, re-formatted my original post!
"Might I say immediately, ... that we always have had (secret, secret, close.the doors!) we always have had a great deal of difficulty in understanding the world view that quantum mechanics represents. At least I do, because I'm an old enough man that I haven't got to the point that this stuff is obvious to me. Okay, I still get nervous with it. And therefore, some of the younger students ... you know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem. So that's why I like to investigate things." - Richard Feynman
Feynman actually came along after quantum mechanics was very much developed, yet even he admitted to having a problem developing an intuitive feel for it.