Key Aspects of Quantum Entanglement
Non-local Connection: Entangled particles maintain a shared existence, meaning measurements performed on one system instantaneously influence the other, even if they are light-years apart.
Interdependent States: The individual state of a particle (such as spin-up or spin-down) is not determined until it is measured. Once measured, the corresponding entangled particle’s state is immediately known.
Origin: Entangled particles are typically generated from the same source or a joint interaction.
Applications: It is crucial for quantum technology, enabling secure communication, quantum teleportation, and improved computing power.
Experimental Observation: Researchers have observed this phenomenon in various contexts, including at high energies with top quarks at the Large Hadron Collider.
Note again: Measurements performed on one system instantaneously influence the other, even if they are light-years apart.
From Wikipedia:
Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon wherein the quantum state of each particle in a group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, even when the particles are separated by a large distance. The topic of quantum entanglement is at the heart of the disparity between classical physics and quantum physics: entanglement is a primary feature of quantum mechanics not present in classical mechanics.
Measurements of physical properties such as position, momentum, spin, and polarization performed on entangled particles can, in some cases, be found to be perfectly correlated. For example, if a pair of entangled particles is generated such that their total spin is known to be zero, and one particle is found to have clockwise spin on a first axis, then the spin of the other particle, measured on the same axis, is found to be anticlockwise. This behavior gives rise to seemingly paradoxical effects: any measurement of a particle’s properties results in an apparent and irreversible wave function collapse of that particle and changes the original quantum state. With entangled particles, such measurements affect the entangled system as a whole.
Such phenomena were the subject of a 1935 paper by Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen, and several papers by Erwin Schrödinger shortly thereafter, describing what came to be known as the EPR paradox. Einstein and others considered such behavior impossible, as it violated the local realism view of causality and argued that the accepted formulation of quantum mechanics must therefore be incomplete.
Later, the counterintuitive predictions of quantum mechanics were verified in tests where polarization or spin of entangled particles were measured at separate locations, statistically violating Bell’s inequality. This established that the correlations produced from quantum entanglement cannot be explained in terms of local hidden variables, i.e., properties contained within the individual particles themselves.
Entanglement can produce statistical correlations between events in widely separated places, but it cannot be used for faster-than-light communication.
Quantum entanglement has been demonstrated experimentally with photons, electrons, top quarks, molecules and even small diamonds. The use of quantum entanglement in communication and computation is an active area of research and development.
In brief, Einstein and others considered such behavior impossible because measurements performed on one system instantaneously influence the other, even if they are light-years apart.
And this despite it was Einstein that first described quantum entanglement in theory.
Yet as written above:
Quantum entanglement has been demonstrated experimentally with photons, electrons, top quarks, molecules and even small diamonds. The use of quantum entanglement in communication and computation is an active area of research and development.
I would hypothesize that the mind is held together by quantum entanglement. And the mind is an emergent phenomenon made possible and based on quantum entanglement. (Send comments and suggestions to mabuhibisaya2017@gmail.com)/PN
