Quantum Entanglement, telepathy, clairvoyance, a different perspective on inventions
July 5, 2024
Quantum Entanglement: The Spooky Action That Enables Simultaneous Knowledge
Here are some notable examples of simultaneous invention by multiple people:
- Calculus was invented independently in the 17th century by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz.
- Oxygen was discovered in the 18th century by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Joseph Priestley, and Antoine Lavoisier, all working independently.
- The theory of evolution was developed concurrently by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the 19th century.
- The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray, who filed their patents on the same day in 1876.
- The Bessemer process for steelmaking was invented by Henry Bessemer in England and William Kelly in the United States in the 1850s.
- Non-Euclidean geometry was discovered by Nikolai Lobachevsky, János Bolyai, and Carl Friedrich Gauss in the early 19th century.
- Logarithms were invented by John Napier and Joost Bürgi in the early 17th century.
Quantum Entanglement and Simultaneous Knowledge
Quantum entanglement provides an explanation for the phenomenon of simultaneous knowledge or "spooky action at a distance" that Einstein famously criticized. Entanglement is a quantum mechanical phenomenon where two or more quantum particles become "entangled" such that the state of one particle is linked to the state of the other(s), even when they are separated by large distances.
The key aspect is that measuring the state of one entangled particle instantly affects the state of the other, no matter how far apart they are. This seems to defy the classical notion that information cannot travel faster than the speed of light.
The physicist John Bell derived a theorem that showed entangled particles could not be described by classical, "local hidden variable" theories. His work predicted that measuring the properties of entangled particles would violate certain inequalities.
Experiments like the one performed by Alain Aspect in 1982 confirmed Bell's predictions. By measuring the polarization of entangled photons, they showed the results violated Bell's inequality, providing clear evidence of quantum entanglement.
Crucially, these experiments demonstrated that measuring one entangled particle instantly affects the other, even when they are separated by large distances. This simultaneous change in the particles' states is the essence of the "spooky action" that Einstein found so puzzling.
In a sense, the entangled particles can be said to have "simultaneous knowledge" of each other's state, even before any measurement is made. This simultaneous knowledge arises from the quantum mechanical description of the system, not from any classical causal mechanism.
There are several interesting points in these events:
- In quantum entanglement, information is transmitted before light or even the event. Can we explain clairvoyance with this?
- Quantum entanglement can also exist between more than two objects.
- During quantum entanglement, can a person with telepathic properties transmit the result to the observer's relatives without incident?
While the exact interpretation of this phenomenon remains an active area of debate in quantum physics, the experimental evidence is clear - quantum entanglement allows for instantaneous correlations between distant particles in a way that cannot be explained by classical physics. This is a fundamental feature of the quantum world that continues to challenge our intuitions about the nature of reality.