Here’s what quantum entanglement and spooky action at a distance are. When the idea of this first flowed out of Einstein’s work on relativity, he dismissed it as absurd and gave it the name, “spooky action at a distance.” He refused to believe that just because his equations led to the prediction of spooky action, it could really exist. But subsequent experiments have shown that the equations are right, and intuition is wrong. So given that it exists, how does it work?

Do you think spacetime is an illusion and all is in one place, or do objects at separate ends of the galaxy really manage instantaneous communication with one another? Is there some as-yet-unknown force that stretches between two entangled leptons no matter how far they are moved apart? Does God do it, constantly watching all the quarks, leptons, gauge particles and Higgs bosons that go to make up the 100 billion galaxies, each with something like 100 billion stars and a massively larger number of planets orbiting them? If so, what is God’s purpose in doing that, or is it just because she can? Clearly none of us really know the answer, but applying Occam’s Razor, what seems most likely to you?

Topics: physics, weird, quantum physics, universe, spooky