This piece of writing has been bouncing around in my head for a while, so I’m glad to finally have it sorted out enough to put it on 'paper.'
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Quantum entanglement describes the phenomenon where two particles, after becoming entangled upon interacting, have correlated properties no matter how far apart they are.
When you measure one, the outcome will determine the state of the other, no matter if they are light-years away.
This doesn’t mean they’re in the same state; it means one’s state impacts the other. Perhaps, when one spins clockwise, the other spins counterclockwise.
Let’s take it a step further.
When you decrease the distance between these two particles, many things can happen: decoherence, possible interaction, and quantum tunneling.
Quantum tunneling is a phenomenon where particles pass through potential barriers that they classically shouldn’t be able to cross. Quantum tunneling is probabilistic. There’s a chance, however small, that a particle may make it through the barrier.
It’s unpredictable, defies logic, and doesn’t always make sense.
And I guess that’s the best way for me to make sense of all of this. For how I love you despite it all. But I guess if you really do love someone, and if the love is true there’s a level of complexity there that can’t be understood. It’s hard to articulate. It’s hard to grasp. There’s no words that can actually articulate the feelings or emotions that all simultaneously exist.
And I've spent a lot of nights writing to understand what happened. And I think I have a good theory. To fully unpack the analogy, I think I've connected the dots on what caused the collapse of the wave function. Or maybe the wave function is still collapsing? Unknown.
Regardless, I hope to share my reflections and learnings one day. And I hope to hear yours.
Until then. Always.