Thought for the Day In 1972, a physics experiment proved that two subatomic particles, once linked, would experience an instantaneous, simultaneous effect on each other, even if light-years apart. In 1990, further experiments demonstrated that this supernatural phenomena occurred also with three particles, which had originated from the same source before spatial separation. A recent book by scientist Amir Aczel, Ph.D., (Entanglement— the physics world’s word for this discovered feature) recounts the details of these, and related, experiments. He summarizes the significance of the experiments: “Entangled entities (subatomic particles, such as photons) are linked together because they were produced by some process that bound them together in a special way….And such photons (or particles), produced in a way that links them together, remain intertwined forever. “Once one is changed, its twin—wherever it may be in the universe—will change instantaneously…. Notions of ‘causality’…are shattered…But entanglement is even more dramatic, for it breaks down our notion that there is a meaning to spatial separation. Entanglement can be described as…two or more particles, taken as one system…. “Two particles that can be miles, or light-years, apart may behave in a concerted way: what happens to one of them happens to the other one instantaneously, regardless of the distance between them….Entangled
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