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Is that like twins being born of different mothers?

 

 

Well said. :)

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Or twins born of the same mother but in different hospitals.

 

 

Or that all hospitals are the same thing. Such concepts of "distance"  are all an illusion of time and space.

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Until now, the general assumption was that such photon pairs necessarily originate from single points in space.

This is an excellent example about how common sense notions don't carry over into the world of the very small where they don't apply, but until their falsity is discovered they continue to influence our thinking.

 

By the way, for those people who aren't really up on "paired" particles, if we are going to import "twin" metaphors into the very small, they are more like "fraternal twins" then "identical twins" since each "twin" has one fundamental characteristic that, like gender in some fraternal twins, is the opposite the other.  This characteristic is one of the reasons why they have been so important to the development of physics, though that opens several cans of vibrating, wiggly "strings" about which way too much could be posted.

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For how long and how far?

We don't know because we haven't found the end.
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Is that like twins being born of different mothers?

 

Since 'nothingness' has no location ....   Ch  42  ;) 

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which one is the 'evil twin ' ?

The other one.

 

It's always the other one.

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Where are the 'missing' superpartner particles from the LHC experiments ?

If we knew that, they wouldn't be missing!

 

 

 

 

Duh.

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