Physicists just won the Nobel prize for proving that this is true. I’ve read the articles and don’t get it.
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It could also mean that we think of as independent particles are actually just *one* really spread out object, not that the particles communicate.
Like separating the front and back side of a coin (say, with a laser) and then discovering that one is heads (or tails) and that the other is always the opposite. No, they were always like this, but it’s our discovery of that which was confused.
Another misconception is that we can operate on one side of the entanglement and have that operation be reflected at the other side. That’s not what it means, I’ve read. There is no connection between the objects… it’s just that they were created as opposites.
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