LHC scientists simply confirmed that spooky quantum entanglement applies to the highest-energy, shortest-lived particles of all: prime quarks.
Of all of the spooky quantum phenomena in our Universe, maybe the spookiest of all of them stays quantum entanglement. The essential concept behind it’s that particles don’t simply exhibit this bizarre form of indeterminism — the place they propagate as waves, in indeterminate states, however work together like particles with definitive and measurable properties — however that the quantum state of even disconnected particles might be associated to 1 one other. Whenever you measure the quantum state of 1 entangled particle, you immediately know one thing concerning the pair that it’s entangled with: not an exactly-determined state, however with units of possible outcomes which might be superior to mere random likelihood.
Quantum entanglement has been effectively explored for standard particles reminiscent of photons, electrons, positrons, protons, neutrons, and different atomic nuclei. Nevertheless, almost all of those exams have occurred at comparatively low (standard) energies and for comparatively secure (long-lived) particles. Does quantum entanglement work the identical approach at excessive energies, and/or for very unstable, short-lived particles?
