Einstein's "spooky effect" in 6 panels
One goes with you. The other goes to the other side of the world.
Flips: 0 · Came out opposite: 0 times
Otherwise, one coin would have to tell the other faster than light. He called that "spooky" 👻.
With notes, the score never gets past the wall. The real world does. So it wasn't little notes!
Alone, each of you sees just a jumble of heads and tails. 🤷
Only by comparing does the secret show up: every one is the opposite of the other!
Scientists played this game with real light, and the real world got past the wall. They won the 2022 Nobel Prize.
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