I find myself increasingly using spooky action at a distance and entanglement as metaphors. They subvert your intuitions of thinginess and thing-boundaries in interesting ways.
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Apparently spooky action at a distance and entanglement aren't actually weird. What's weird is best illustrated by the bomb experiment...
youtube.com/watch?v=RhIf3Q
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Nice video, hadn’t heard of the bomb experiment. Still think entanglement is weird though. She does agree that quantum objects can have non-local correlations that classical objects cannot.
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Social media enables the Circle of Drama to relocate from household or tribal settings to worldwide scope. Scaling up what was better (or at least less dangerous) bounded
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There's a circle of influence, and a circle of concern, but I fear social media adds a circle of drama, far larger than those former circles twitter.com/archillect/sta…
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Distance is a macro construct, too. In reality, there’s just a single electron that went berserk 13.77B years ago.
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