Please explain to me quantum entanglement.. and can we “ hypothetically “ build a quantum entangled cameras or some sort of optical device one we can observe on and them put this device in a space shuttle or smt then we can observe events in time ?
Let’s just say this device is 1 light years away but it’s entangled with a device here on earth so events will reach us 1 in 1 year or just in time?
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The most simple explanation of quantum entanglement is just an extension of the idea that mulitple objects cannot exist in the same place at the same time.
It turns out, for very small objects, “place” is not the only detail about objects that obey that rule. There are other things like electric charge, momentum, etc… That cannot be the same at the same time.
At that scale, we do know that there are minimum measurements for these things, though, and we can see that the total system might have a certain value.
And because these tiny objects don’t have location in the same way that much larger objects do (they’re excitations in fields. Or they’re wave functions that collapse. Or *maybe* they’re vibrating strings. But they’re *definitely not* points in a specific place), they can interfere with each other in this way over much larger distances than would be possible, otherwise.
But for basically the same reason, in order to verify that they’ve actually done so, you have to independently observe all of the entangled particles and measure their individual traits before you can know for a fact that they interfered with each other.
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