In the EPR Paradox, Einstein believed the answer was there had to be hidden information.
Bell devised the mathematics to test this, and the tests done ever since have shown the no-hidden-information argument to be true.
What seems intuitive to me, then, is the opposite of hidden information. Hidden lack-of-information.
Hidden lack-of-information, for example, is what you have in a lossy compressed image, as compared with a "real" one.
My first description of this, is that reality is constrained in certain hidden ways. There are certain places it cannot go...and this extends also to our ability to test things. We simply can't get to the experiments that would disprove entanglement, because we are similarly constrained.
Therefore, the world has less information that a world in which every possibility...was really possible.
And it seems to me to be impossible that the universe could have so impossibly much information as it might at first glance seem to have. Some data reduction...just has to be there.
It's also consistent with the theory that "this universe" is actually a simulation. A simulation done in a higher order universe lacking some of the constraints. Perhaps they couldn't hide this aspect of the simulation, except by obfuscation.
Anyway, just something that occurred to me watching Nova tonight. I'm not sure I like it actually. It's so much nicer to think of a more infinite, but also infinitely entangled universe. But they sound pretty similar actually...an "entangled" universe is also a constrained or information-compressed one. It is as if the universe is being expanded from an MP3 file.
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