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Ep63 - Sean Carroll: "Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime"

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Quantum Mechanics - Entanglement

The Higgs boson we discovered back in 2012 is a spinless particle. Every elementary particle comes with a quantity called spin, which is really just like the spin of the Earth or a spinning top. So when you talk about what the two electrons are doing, you need to talk about both of them at once. What is happening to particle one is entangled with what's happening to particle two.

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