Entanglement

By Barbara Stallard

Series of poems based on personal narrative involving cosmology, theology and family.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jul 4, 2016
• ISBN: 9781365214462

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Entanglement

Entanglement

By

Barbara Stallard

Dedication

Dedicated to the children who, despite sometimes the direst living conditions, survive and thrive and to those babies and children who did not survive the frustrations, addictions and failings of the adults who were to care for them and did not.  They call us to compassion and action.

Foreword

"Schrödinger coined the term ‘entanglement’ to describe this peculiar connection between quantum systems (Schrödinger, 1935; p. 555):

When two systems, of which we know the states by their respective representatives, enter into temporary physical interaction due to known forces between them, and when after a time of mutual influence the systems separate again, then they can no longer be described in the same way as before, viz. by endowing each of them with a representative of its own. I would not call that one but rather the characteristic trait of quantum mechanics, the one that enforces its entire departure from classical lines of thought. By the interaction the two representatives [the quantum states] have become entangled. "

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-entangle/

Author's note: It appears that physicists think quantum entanglement can be proven only mathematically since it is believed there is no experiment that could prove it by observation. Science may not have the methodology to prove the principal of entanglement in a concrete way but that is of no concern to me. Prior to observing so many things in our universe, we didn't know about them but that does not mean they do not exist (or that they do, for that matter). We are barely into the observable  journey.

I wrote this short string as an answer to the perpetual human condition of playing catch-up with what is and what we know. One limitation of humanity and human intelligence: there is always more to know (and many of us are curious).  Another and opposing trait among humans is the desire to be right and to fear change. These characteristics pull us back and forth between them and so open progress is both hampered and tempered.

If we cannot see it,

we cannot name it and

if we cannot name it

then it does not exist.

But we are wrong.

By the fall of 2015, some of what we know about entanglement, cosmology and the universe may have changed again.  Hearing rumbles now about doubt in the Big Bang as the beginning of everything let alone the Theory of Everything.  Those rumblings, just as the ones that hypothesized that the