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Redfox8@mander.xyz 2 weeks agoPlease explain entanglement and how two particles can be inexplicably connected despite being gajillions of light years apart! Bonus question, do you believe time exists?
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Redfox8@mander.xyz 2 weeks agoPlease explain entanglement and how two particles can be inexplicably connected despite being gajillions of light years apart! Bonus question, do you believe time exists?
knightly@pawb.social 2 weeks ago
Okay!
Entanglement is what we call any sort of quantum interaction that causes some property of two particles to become linked, like photon gun that always spits out two photons of the same polarization, or bouncing a couple of molecules together so that they spin in opposite directions. So long as nothing comes along to disrupt that state, we could measure one particle and we’d know the state of the other particle no matter where it is without having to measure it.
The “inexplicable connection” there is just information about a quantum pair, but it’s spooky because that information literally doesn’t exist until it is measured, at which point the connection is broken. A couple of intergalactic hydrogen atoms could exchange a photon across light years and become entangled for the rest of time, casually sharing some quantum secret as they coast to infinity.
Bonus answer, I think time is real but isn’t like what we imagine it to be.
pcalau12i@lemmygrad.ml 1 week ago
Nope. No “secrets” are being exchanged between these particles.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem