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“We’re entangled,” I said. “That’s it, isn’t it?”
“I think so,” Professor Whitfield said. “At least, that was my guess.”
Quantum entanglement. I’ve read about it, but this was my first time seeing it—if that’s what was really going on. Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance.” He never believed it could really happen. Quantum physicists have shown it does.
It’s like this: say you have a calcium atom that emits two photons—which are particles of light—at the same time. Both of these photons are exactly the same—they have the same spin, the same velocity, everything.
Now let’s say you separate those two photons into two totally different locations. Maybe one stays in Bear Creek, and the other travels miles away.
What quantum entanglement says is that even if the photons are
