Entangled in Time
Let's talk about quantum entanglement. At first glance it looks like a very strange phenomenon, where the properties (like spin) of two particles coming from the same source can be measured in different points of space and time, and the results of these measurements are correlated, while still being fundamentally random. If you make a spacetime diagram of it, you get something like this:
Now, I want you to think about it in a different way, similar to what I've already posted in this blog about creation and annihilation of pairs of virtual particles, where in my interpretation it's just one particle going in a circle in spacetime.
There is no meaningful definition of the "direction of a particle in time", the history of a particle in spacetime is just a line, with no specific direction attached to it, like described in this video by Sabine Hossenfelder. And the fundamental laws of physics work the same way in both directions of time, the difference between past and future that we perceive is based only on large-scale phenomenons, like entropy and expansion of the universe.
So, for a single particle, we should accept the possibility that its "world line" can "bend" not only in space, but in time too. This way we can interpret the above diagram as one particle "bouncing in time" at the "source" point. With that interpretation, the quantum entanglement becomes less mysterious: of course the measurements are correlated, because it's the same particle!
Edited by Silly Druid
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