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What did Einstein famously call quantum entanglement?
Answer
Spooky action at a distance
Einstein dismissed quantum entanglement as 'spooky action at a distance' because he was skeptical that particles could share quantum properties across any distance instantaneously, violating locality. Recent experiments (including 2024 findings) have confirmed that entangled particles can indeed maintain quantum correlations far exceeding speed-of-light separation distances, though no actual information transfers faster than light. This phenomenon has been experimentally verified in photons, electrons, and even heavy top quarks.
💡 Did you know?
In December 2024, scientists detected entanglement between top quarks—the heaviest particles known—over distances impossible to cross at light speed.
Other options people guess
- Quantum tunneling effect
- Wave-particle duality
- The uncertainty principle
Topics
- quantum-physics
- entanglement
- Einstein
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