energy. In quantum-speak, this lattice of connections is called nonlocality. And even though it’s one of the signature concepts of quantum mechanics, nonlocality, along with its cousin entanglement, has incited much head-scratching over the last 300 years, starting with Sir Isaac Newton, who considered what he called “action at a distance” ludicrous (despite the fact that his own theory of gravity had proposed just such a phenomenon). To be brief, nonlocality is when two particles behave synchronously with no intermediary. But it doesn’t make logical sense, right? If you want to move, say, an
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