Riaanh
Fascinating! I can't help to wonder about its influence on things like identical twins having a special connection, i.e. the one being in an accident and the other one feeling something at the same time.
Who knows?
DomainRider
@Riaanh - it seems very unlikely that entanglement has anything to do with any 'special connection' between twins such as you suggest, as it cannot be used to transfer information.
It might be said that any entanglement between twins would be special *because* it would have no influence on either.
notarichman
so, if the internet is split such as .gov and .com and each subsystem has at least 1/5 of the total; then they are entangled? If you consider large enough systems; then they have a chance of being entangled, though not split apart? i probably got this question wrong... but consider using this entanglement as a way of viewing what is going on at another planet or solar system or galaxy. what defines the terms: "system", "split", "subsystem"? Does .gov and .com mean that they have split off the internet "system"? If another internet forms that has never been connected to the present internet and is at least 1/5 in size; then does that mean they are entangled? or do they have to be "split off"? Given NSA's current prism program, imagine the consequences of spying between internet subsystems, etc. I would think that twins would be considered a split of at least 1/5, but how do we know that they were part of a "system"? What is the lower limitation of the size of a system? what if the original system before being split grows? If a meteorite comes from the asteroid belt; then could we use it to view the asteroid belt from close up? I can't see how the asteroid belt could be considered a split off of a system, let alone the meteorite be considered 1/5 of the total...so the next question is how do we make an entanglement occur without the original system and or size? that would seem to make quantum entanglement actually useful.
Grumpyrelic
Hmm... build a ship that rides the entanglement and you could be everywhere at once all the time. Sounds like a description of god doesn't it? I wonder what sort of person we could meet there...
Mihai Pruna
this would explain several previously unexplained phenomena related to telepathy premonitions ghosts and you name it
Stephen Funck
Sounds like God omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient from before the beginning to after the end Alpha and Omega unknowable dimensions, outside of time real, hidden, revealed divine paradox
see3d
If large systems that have interacted with each other are certainly entangled, then how about the big bang? Everything in this universe is then entangled no matter how far apart today.
Pecos Pete
This was a theme in Red Dwarf X episode 4 by Doug Naylor!
bdodson
see3d, Good insight. check out http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.1584.pdf. Brian Dodson
Tickoslav Damien Tockovich
Humans already have long empirical relationship with Quantum Entanglement in large systems; it has been called sympathetic magic. :)