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The above words were used by famed physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955) to describe the phenomenon of quantum entanglement.
There were likely few things in life Einstein wanted to understand but didn’t or couldn’t.
This may have been one even he had difficulty wrapping his head around.
Like some others of his ilk, he did like to keep life simple, so he could devote his considerable mental energy to more important complexities, such as his work.
He couldn’t be bothered with having 2 different kinds of soap — one for bathing and one for shaving.
One would suffice, thank you.
He disliked mending holes in his socks; they would eventually have to be discarded anyway.
Nonetheless, he described the phenomenon with simplicity and elegance in terms a non-physicist or non-mathematician might understand.
It was he who said, “Everything should be made as simple as possible — but no simpler.”
So let us take a look.
We, too, may not be able to understand the concept.
But we can try.
It was physicist and Nobel laurate (1965) Richard Feynman who opined, “I think I can safely say that nobody really understands quantum mechanics.”
