Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Joint Configurations - Less Wrong
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Jordan, the three answers to your question are:
1) Each photon is actually spread out in configuration space - I'll talk about this later - so an infinitesimal error in timing only creates an infinitesimal probability of both detectors going off, rather than a discontinuous jump.
2) Physicists have gotten good at doing things with bloody precise timing, so they can run experiments like this.
3) I didn't actually perform the experiment.