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Letter: Vanishing together

Published 5 July 2006

From Michael Murphy

You suggest that “If one half of an entangled pair of particles were to cross the event horizon and disappear into the singularity while the other did not, then this entanglement would be destroyed” (10 June, p 34).

Why should it? Since other manipulations of one half of an entangled pair result in a corresponding effect to the other half, quite regardless of intervening distance, isn’t it possible that the entanglement would remain, and both halves of the particle pair would “disappear into the singularity”?

Baltimore, Maryland, US

Issue no. 2559 published 8 July 2006

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