• cynar@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It was a bit of a joke. Entangled particles act a little like voodoo dolls, with “spooky action at a distance”.

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      2 months ago

      ah, world is going so crazy you cant really know what is what anymore

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        2 months ago

        Once you hit quantum mechanics, you need to throw out a lot of your instinctive knowledge, and just follow the maths. How this maps back to our perception is patchy at best. Once you add science reporters, who don’t actually understand the core subject, and you get some… interesting results.

        In hindsight, “quantum voodoo dolls” is a term I could easily see being used. There are a lot of poorly thought out Wats to try and describe quantum weirdness.