Weird science makes me hate everything, including you.

[Sethomas]

I've been avoiding this forum as of late because it's so depressing, and I don't need that. Between posting on the other forums and leaving my room for fast food twice a day, I've been devoting my life to conquering wikipedia. After describing M-theory to a friend a while ago, and then seeing a reference to a scav item I turned down demanding, "explain string theory using only sock puppets", I decided to refresh my understanding on the subject. Naturally, wikipedia was the first source.

I was first reminded of the principle of non-locality, which is something that royally pissed me off when I first learned of it in 2004. Enough had happened in the following months that I was able to be royally pissed off at other facets of reality (exemplia gratia, my life), so it was more or less erased from my daily recurring thoughts. Then today, I read more about it and all those memories came back.

Basically, as I remember it descriptions of experiments I read in 2004, quantum mechanics dictates that acting on one particle at point A can affect the behavior of a particle at distant point B instantaneously. Communication between the two is possible because even if there were a "messenger particle"* causing it, it would necessitate hyper-luminous speeds and not really solve any problems. So, basically, reality makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER.

As far as I know, non-locality is just a weird implication of quantum mechanics that has been verified to be true in experiment. However, nobody understands how it actually happens, only why. I'm too inept to solve it myself, and I doubt anyone else will in the foreseeable future.

Why was I born into a time where the problem was known but the solution beyond grasp, without the means of doing anything about it except get pissed off? Fuck you, physics, for showing us these quirks of existence. And fuck you, existence, for being so quirky.

*The term "messenger particle" just seemed the most apt to convey what I meant, but the term proper already refers to those particles that result in the four forces of nature (photons, gravitons, yadda yadda).