Tuesday Adam Gopnik makes some nice literary allusions in a recent New Yorker essay-review of George Musser’s Spooky at a Distance, which is about the history of quantum entanglement theory. Entanglement, also known as non-locality and described by Einstein as “spooky at a distance,” claims that two particles of a single wave function can influence each other, even […]
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Donne’s Lovers, Spooky at a Distance
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Quiz: Identify These Famous Figures
Two wonderfully light poems give readers a chance to test their knowledge of cultural history.
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