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Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon

StartsWithABang writes: One of the more puzzling phenomena in our quantum Universe is that of entanglement: two particles remain in mutually indeterminate states until one is measured, and then the other — even if it's across the Universe — is immediately known. In theory, this should be true even if one member of the pair falls into a black hole, although it's impossible to measure that. However, we can (and have) measured that for the laboratory analogue of black holes, known as "dumb holes," and the entanglement survives!

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  1. Dumb Holes? by Mister+Transistor · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've known a few. Whenever they are around, everything intelligent seems to get sucked away.

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