In Ant-man and the Wasp, when Ant-man shrinks to a subatomic size, Janet Van Dyne begins to plant messages in his head from afar. Quantum entanglement inspired this plotline, according to an interview with NBC – a phenomenon where two tiny particles share information over great distances.
Monika Schleier-Smith, an experimental physicist and associate professor at Stanford University, entangles atoms in her lab to ask big questions like: How does gravity work, what happens to information when it falls into black holes and what problems can quantum computing help us solve?
Quantum physicists study how atom-sized particles interact. At this size-scale, the classical rules of physics fail, and counterintuitive phenomenon like quantum entanglement arise.
Schleier-Smith compares entanglement to tossing a coin. The results will be random. Half the time you’ll get heads, and half the time you’ll get tails. But imagine if someone else was also flipping a coin, and ...
