The falling slinky and QM.

 The seemingly strange behavior of the falling slinky can be explained by referring to what the universe, at a particular point in spacetime "knows" versus what the universe, or person, at another point in spacetime knows. 

The person knows that the slinky has been released before the bottom of the slinky knows. 

QM is all about what the universe knows at various locations in spacetime. Sometimes and someplaces the universe happens to be a person.  

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