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Two particles, one fate — gossip travels faster than light but refuses to say anything new.
means A quantum phenomenon where two or more particles become linked so that measuring one instantly correlates with the state of the other, no matter how far apart they are.
from From Latin 'quantum' (how much) via physics' early-1900s adoption to mean discrete packets of energy, plus 'entangle' — rooted in 'tangle,' likely from a Scandinavian word for seaweed or knotted things catching you up. Einstein himself coined the key phrase in German, 'Verschränkung,' around 1935, and famously distrusted the whole idea, calling the correlations 'spooky action at a distance' — a skeptic's jab that outlived his skepticism.
- einstein called it
- spooky action at a distance, with disdain
- no signal sent
- correlations only, so relativity survives unbroken
- record distance
- photons entangled across 1,200 km via satellite
- not about distance
- breaks on measurement, not on separation