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Letter: Entangled web

Published 17 April 2004

From Max Wallis, Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology, Cardiff University

Michael Brooks’s suggestion that physicists now believe entanglement between particles exists everywhere, all the time, as exemplified by light photons travelling from a star, brings wry smiles to we wave physicists (27 March, p 32).

We are quite at home with light waves interacting with the atoms of the star, and bringing us evidence of those atoms. But entanglement physicists believe observation of that light affects all those atoms instantaneously. They are clearly in a tangle.

Cardiff, UK

Issue no. 2443 published 17 April 2004

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