Entanglement

Einstein taught 

that entanglement 

leads to quantum 

nonlocality.

If two quantum systems meet, 

he said, 

and then separate, 

even across a distance 

of thousands of lightyears, 

it becomes 

impossible 

to measure one system-

its position, 

momentum, 

polarity- 

without instantly 

steering the other 

into a corresponding state.

Put simply, 

when two 

particles 

are allowed to interact, 

they influence each other’s 

basic properties. 

Even after the particles 

are separated, 

a change 

to one results 

in a corresponding change 

to the other 

at the exact same time. 

No matter the distance, 

the particles 

are intimately connected 

in a way that has yet 

to be fully explained.

Maybe this, too, is love:

to be marked 

so completely 

by a single 

connection.

If this is so, 

I am resigned-

I will never be free 

of you.