h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

ps. I've often wondered if it could answer the "spooky action at a distance" question. I was at a lecture by Lisa Randall in which a form of that question was asked, and her answer was basically no. The long answer was that quantum is very solid, and it's easier to just understand quantum and use it.

As a side note, I think if we were to learn the path-formulation of quantum, we wouldn't be as bothered by "spookiness".

My take is also that Bell's inequality and EPR seem to show that there are no hidden variables. Unless that experimental result is wrong (always a possibility), then that would rule out hidden variables in the form of higher-dimensional effects (I beleive).

I've been meaning to work through
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_integral_formulation

to try to understand.