The Pros And Cons Of Quantum Entanglement

Quantum entanglement is a fascinating phenomenon that was discovered by Max Planck and has been researched up until now. Basically, entanglement, or “spooky action at a distance” as Albert Einstein called it, is the mysterious connection between two subatomic particles. They were entangled by natural occurrences, such as a particle collision, and can send each other info on what happens to them. If you think about it, this could be a huge step for mankind because we can theoretically use it for secret communication, high end internet, teleportation, and even communication with the future. So, what is quantum entanglement and how can it be manipulated to human’s advantage? First, let’s answer the question, what is quantum entanglement?

As you can imagine, since quantum entanglement is a faster than light connection and communication that isn’t stopped by any distance, it can accomplish some pretty amazing tasks. For example, it could introduce faster than light and un-hackable communication. Since one particle can affect the other particle faster than light, all we have to do is figure out how to put information in on one end and see it be received on the other. And since entanglement doesn’t use any sort of internet, it can’t be hacked. This would be a huge advantage in wars and even just cyber safe phone calls. Also, faster than light internet could be introduced. If this were to come along then everything would be a million times easier to do, and you would accomplish a lot more faster. Next, quantum entanglement helps prove the many worlds theorem. This theorem states that all possible alternate pasts and futures are real and existing. Last, quantum entanglement can theoretically connect across time, so maybe in the far future we might be able to send information into a future time. So, quantum entanglement, if used properly, could be used for amazing things that would highly benefit the life of now-a-day humans and maybe even future

There has been many ground breaking experiments, and discoveries, about quantum entanglement. First, let’s look at the Schroedinger cat experiment that explains the basis of quantum theory that says, before a particle is measured it has no definite state. In this experiment Erwin Schroedinger devised a “mental” experiment that shows that particles have no defined state before they are measured. To do this, he put a cat, not actually, just in his mind, in a box and had a vial of poisonous gas that would break if an atom decayed in a certain amount of time. After the certain amount of time, before he had measured the state of the atom the cat was technically both dead and alive, but once you measure it then you can determine whether the cat is alive or dead. This experiment was actually showing how quantum theory can’t apply to everyday things and only particles, but it is a really easy way to understand that before you measure the state of a particle, it has no state. Next, another huge experiment for entanglement was Bell’s Theorem. This was to prove whether entangled particles have secret information when they are created and we just don’t know it, or if that they really can communicate faster than light. To do this, Bell had two particles, particle A and particle B, and he measured the spin of them. He figured out that by measuring