As startling as it is, as long as fifty centuries ago the ancient Egyptians knew something very similar to entanglement and actually adhered to the bold belief that everything that ever existed is amalgamated into a hidden One, a single, inaccessible being, symbolized by the veiled goddess Neith, later often identified with her better-known companion in protecting Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus: the mother goddess Isis. According to this view, what we experience as nature is just the cover under which a hidden but looming unified fundamental reality can be surmised.
