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Quantum Entanglement
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Quantum Entanglement: Quantum entanglement is a link between particles that have interacted, such that measurements on them give matched results however far apart they are, though no signal passes between them.
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At a glance
- Also called
- spooky action at a distance, entangled particles
- Found in
- Consciousness & Spiritual Psychology
- Related
- Wave Function, Observer Effect, Double-Slit Experiment, Synchronicity
Quantum entanglement is a link between particles that have interacted, such that measurements on them give matched results however far apart they are, though no signal passes between them.
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What is quantum entanglement?
When two particles are produced together in the right way, quantum theory describes them with a single wave function. Measure one and the result is random; measure the other and its result is random too; compare notes afterwards and the two lists match more closely than any set of instructions carried from the source could arrange. That excess is what experiments confirm.
The match cannot be used to communicate. Each side sees only noise until the records are brought together by ordinary means, no faster than light. Entanglement is fragile and is destroyed by contact with the surroundings, which is why it is found in laboratories and not between people.
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What sets Quantum Entanglement apart
What makes entanglement strange is a number. John Bell proved in 1964 that if particles carried their answers with them, correlations between distant measurements could not exceed a certain bound. Quantum theory predicts a larger value and experiments find the larger value. So the matched results are neither sent between the particles nor fixed in advance. Just as firmly, the theory forbids using the effect to transmit anything, because each side's results, taken alone, are pure chance.
- Named: Erwin Schrödinger, 1935 (German Verschränkung)
- Einstein's phrase: spukhafte Fernwirkung, 'spooky action at a distance'
- Test: Bell's theorem, 1964
- First experiment: Stuart Freedman and John Clauser, 1972
- Nobel Prize: 2022: Alain Aspect, John Clauser, Anton Zeilinger
- Limit: no signalling: it cannot carry a message
Often mistaken for something else: A pair of gloves split between two boxes is correlated because each glove was left or right all along; entangled particles are correlated more strongly than any such pre-set arrangement allows.
The story behind Quantum Entanglement
Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen described the situation in 1935 to argue that quantum theory was incomplete, and Schrödinger named it entanglement the same year. Einstein later called it spooky action at a distance. In 1964 John Bell showed how to test it. John Clauser ran the first test in 1972, Alain Aspect closed a major loophole in 1982, and Anton Zeilinger extended the work; the three shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Why Quantum Entanglement matters
Quantum Entanglement is the physics most often cited for telepathy, soulmates and oneness, and it supports none of them.
How to read Quantum Entanglement
Physicists build encryption and computing on it; readers may take it as an image of connection so long as it is called an image.
Quantum Entanglement in practice: an example
Two laboratories measure entangled photons; each sees a random string, and only on comparing them do the matches appear.
Where readings of Quantum Entanglement go wrong
Quantum Entanglement carries no thought, feeling or message, and nothing shows that people or minds are entangled.
Sources and editorial method
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- Source
- The Great Almanac Dictionary
- Category
- Consciousness & Spiritual Psychology
- Aliases
- entanglement, quantum entanglement meaning, spooky action at a distance, entangled particles
- Last updated
- 2026-09-26
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Common questions
What is quantum entanglement?
It is a condition in which two or more particles share one quantum description, so that measurements on them are correlated in a way no local hidden instructions could produce.
Can entanglement send information faster than light?
No. Each measurement gives a random result, and the correlation shows only when the two records are compared through an ordinary channel. This is an established theorem of the theory.
Are people entangled with each other?
There is no evidence of it. Entangled states are lost almost at once in warm, crowded matter. Speaking of entangled souls is a figure of speech borrowed from physics.
