[jheriko]

i thought every action was spooky and at a distance?

if you drop down to the smallest scales you can't tell if two things are in contact. i'm inclined to think that an infinitesemally continuous universe is an approximation we use to make the math 'easier' - in fact so are space and time - and even countability.

our best theories indicate that at small scales you can't actually tell if things are separated or not - or even if there are one or two - or even if events happen first or second.

thinking about a tiny 'almost a black hole' clock on the planck scale can reveal this very quickly with only the most basic of QM, SR and GR relations... below a certain tick rate it will collapse into a black hole and stop working, or the uncertainty effects will smear out the results so that you can't tell which tick comes first, or the error in the ticks exceeds the length of the ticks. in essense space and time are unmeasurable in the context of semi-classical QFT + GR theories

[brianpgordon]

"Spooky action at a distance" implies some kind of faster-than-light phenomenon. Regular things that interact while separated by space aren't considered to have "spooky action at a distance."