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AMA | September 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is Space an Emergent Property Out of Entanglement?

I don't think we're anywhere near an equilibrium state for the internet right now. Josh Charles said, if it's possible that space is an emergent property out of entanglement, is it possible that we'll find spooky action at a distance is not really distant at all? I have two answers to this. It does not follow that two entangled particles are close. There are far, far more quantum degrees of freedom in empty space in their vacuum states than there are particles,. Even at the center of a neutron star or something like that. Most of space is empty as far as quantum field theory is concerned. When you're talking about the geometry of space, it's only the

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