PHYSICS is notorious for throwing up concepts that defy our common-sense views of how the world works. One is quantum entanglement. The idea that two particles can instantly affect one another across cosmological distances makes no sense in our existing models of the universe. It certainly offended Einstein. But all the experimental evidence amassed in the past 80 years suggests that it cannot be dismissed.
One inescapable consequence is that space cannot possibly have the structure that Einstein’s relativity demands of it. Somehow, points in space can be connected to one another, however “separated” they appear to be. And things…
