A Treatise on the Nature of Invisible Connection, the Futility of Pairing, and the Philosophical Implications of the “Search for Devices” Screen
In 1935, Albert Einstein co-authored a paper predicting that quantum mechanics — the branch of physics that governs the behavior of atoms and the particles inside them — would permit something he considered revolting. Two particles, created together as a linked pair, could be separated by any distance and would remain correlated: measure one, and the state of the other is determined instantaneously, regardless of how much space sits between them. Einstein called this “spooky action at a distance” and meant it as an insult. He spent the last thirty years of his life arguing that the universe could not possibly work this way.