Artificial Entanglement

In his article ‘Quantum Entanglement’ (Resurgence 256), Deepak Chopra makes two major mistakes, which vitiate much of what he subsequently writes.

First, entanglement does not “defy … Einstein’s theory of relativity”. The Theory of Relativity does indeed set a limit on the speed of matter and information; but no information or matter is transferred in the famous entanglement experiment. This has been discussed for decades among physicists. There is an article in a recent issue of Scientific American on the nature of the challenge ...

 

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