LHC scientists simply confirmed that spooky quantum entanglement applies to the highest-energy, shortest-lived particles of all: high quarks.
Of all of the spooky quantum phenomena in our Universe, maybe the spookiest of all of them stays quantum entanglement. The essential thought behind it’s that particles don’t simply exhibit this bizarre type 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 may be associated to at least one one other. Once you measure the quantum state of 1 entangled particle, you immediately know one thing in regards to 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 properly explored for typical particles akin to photons, electrons, positrons, protons, neutrons, and different atomic nuclei. Nevertheless, almost all of those exams have occurred at comparatively low (typical) energies and for comparatively steady (long-lived) particles. Does quantum entanglement work the identical means at excessive energies, and/or for terribly unstable, short-lived particles?
