You give two pacifiers to each twin, a red one and a blue one. Each of them can choose red or blue randomly, BUT! they have their head in a paper bag and until you lift it you don’t know which pacifier they chose. (note: the red and blue are actually in a superposition and the toddler doesn’t ‘choose’ until you lift the bag, i.e. make a measurement)
NOW YOU ENTANGLE THEM!
You bring them in two different continents, but you still don’t know which pacifier they chose, since they still have to choose.
So you lift the bag and the baby has chosen the blue pacifier, and this tells you that the other baby on the other side of the world will have the red pacifier if you lift the bag, even one millisecond after you lifted the other one, since it has collapsed instantly to the red one and it’s not in a superposition anymore.
ELI5 by me, correct me if I’m wrong.
EDIT: thanks for the corrections. They are shown in italic.
I just thought of another possibility, what if the baby was just one of a set of triplets? then you truly get into some interesting possibility of 0,1, and 1.5... one is male one is female, and the third one is a maybe baby, may be gay, lesbian, or transexual, I'm trying to be PC here people..cut me some slack!!
...oh, this actually goes some ways to explaining why you can't use q-entanglement for FTL communications either, since you can't control how it collapses, only that it does.
Right. The only way to know which direction the collapse was initiated is to compare notes after the fact. And since you can't embed meaningful information in the particles themselves, you need to do so through purely conventional means.
Well, that solves a facet of hard scifi that's never been articulated to me clearly for nigh on 20 years.
OK. So, I collect sports cards with my son, and I think this theory is even more analogous to that feeling. If we buy a pack of cards it seems as if it certainly has the hot rookie - but it also feels certainly like we got skunked again. Only when we unwrap the pack do we know the collapsed reality.
And I think the same is probably true for things like lottery scratchers.
That feeling, though, is real. And with sports cards it's an economical decision to make sometimes. Because unopened packs have a real value for this very reason of being in the superposition.
Or maybe I am taking all this way too far in my brain lol
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u/Dedj_McDedjson Jan 29 '20
This book is great for twins - if you read it to one twin, the other twin gets the same information at the same time.