I swore I wouldn't repost entries from my old blog, but I couldn't stop the urge to post this:
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"...quantum nonlocality, the way once two electrons were entangled, you could separate them, shoot them hundreds of thousands of miles in opposite directions, and they'd stay linked: if you set one of them spinning, the other would instantly spin at the same speed in the opposite direction. They weren't talking to each other; communication was not whizzing back and forth regularly faster than the speed of light. The two particles just existed outside regular reality, outside of spacetime, in a state where distance was meaningless, where distance wasn't." (Belong To Me by Marisa de los Santos)
Where distance was meaningless, where distance wasn't. I couldn't help but think that at the quantum level, we are not really that separate, you and I. Aren't we as "entangled" as entangled could get? But there are moments, a lot of them, when imagining your face as I read the e-mails you sent, reality slaps me hard on the face. I'm here. You're there. And for a wee bit I wish that's not the case.
(Multiply. May 23, 2008. 10:16 PM)
It's as true then as it is now.
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