|
Dean Radin explains entanglement:
Entanglement was predicted by the
mathematics of quantum theory. Quantum
theory considers matter not only in
particulate form, but also as waves of
probability. The interesting thing about a
wave is that it can combine and interfere
with other waves. Based on this idea, two
particles interacting could be understood in
wavelike terms as the creation of a new,
more complex wave. Not two waves, but one
wave, and that one wave remains one system
thereafter. So two particles that interact
can no longer be considered separate.
Einstein didn't like this idea and called it's
spooky action at a distance. But the
mathematics predict that if you have one
particle that splits into two, or two
particles that interact, once those
particles separate they are no longer really
separate. They both contain some aspect of
each other.
For about 30 or 40 years this prediction
about entanglement remained only a
theoretical possibility. And then after
development of a way to test whether the
prediction was true or not in the 1960s, the
first major replication of it was reported
in the 1980s. The method was based on a
theorem by Irish physicist John Bell. And so
now we're in a position where we know, based
not just on theory but also on empirical
fact, that particles which appear to be
separate can actually be connected through
space and time in ways that appear to be
spooky.
What's important then is that this is not
just an interesting theoretical idea, but an
observable fact about the fabric of reality.
-- Dean Radin,
The Bleeping Hearld, April 2006
[Interview, Part I]
|
