Whenever your friend is in a bad mood, you suddenly feel depressed thousands of miles away, is this caused by quantum entanglement between people? Before exploring whether quantum entanglement exists between people, let's first briefly understand what quantum is and what quantum entanglement is, and analyze the possibility of quantum entanglement between people based on scientific principles.
Quantum is the basic unit that makes up the material world, and it refers to the smallest, indivisible unit of energy in physics. Quantum mechanics is the branch of physics that studies the behavior of microscopic particles such as electrons and photons, and it reveals a world that is very different from our daily experience, a probabilistic world in which particles can be in multiple positions and states at the same time.
Quantum entanglement is a very important and mysterious phenomenon in quantum mechanics, which refers to the fact that two or more quanta become inseparable in a sense, and their quantum states affect each other instantaneously, no matter how far apart. This means that a measurement of one of the quanta immediately determines the state of the other quanta, regardless of the distance between them.
Quantum entanglement challenges the principle of locality in classical physics, which states that objects cannot interact with each other faster than the speed of light. In quantum entanglement, the transmission of information seems to be instantaneous, a phenomenon that Einstein vividly called "ghostly long-distance action".
When we apply the concept of quantum entanglement to the relationship between people, we first need to recognize a basic fact: humans are complex organisms composed of a large number of atoms and molecules, and microscopic particles such as electrons in each atom follow the laws of quantum mechanics. However, the size of the human body goes far beyond the direct manifestation of quantum effects.
From a scientific point of view, it is extremely difficult to observe the effects of quantum entanglement at the macroscopic level, such as complex systems such as the human body. Quantum entanglement is usually observed at extremely low temperatures and under specific experimental conditions, and the temperatures and conditions of the human body and the daily environment are far from this.
Although microscopic particles in the human body do follow the laws of quantum mechanics, their interactions with each other and with their environment are such that any possible quantum entanglement state will soon decay due to the interaction of the quantum system with the surrounding environment, and eventually integrate into the behavior patterns of classical physics.
So, there is an entanglement between people, but this entanglement is emotional, social. It is extremely unlikely that there is quantum entanglement between people, quantum entanglement is mainly a phenomenon between microscopic particles, and at the macroscopic level such as the human body, quantum effects are masked by the laws of classical physics.