spooky action at a distance
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spooky action at a distance
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Calque of German spukhafte Fernwirkung. Coined by Albert Einstein in a letter to Max Born on March 3, 1947 to express his skepticism about quantum mechanics, where two particles may interact instantaneously over a distance.
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Synonym of quantum entanglement.
The correlations are thus due either to entanglement, as predicted by quantum physics, or to some hypothetical spooky action at a distance whose speed we wish to bound from below.
Similar: quantum entanglement
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noun quantum entanglement
| Español | acción fantasmal a distancia |
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| Português | ação fantasmagórica à distância |
| Français | action fantôme à distance |
| Deutsch | spukhafte Fernwirkung |
| Italiano | azione spettrale a distanza |
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