_SpaceTimeContinuum t1_iudgsl2 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:31 PM

Reply to comment by sickofthisshit in Entanglement-Enhanced Matter-Wave Interferometer: Now With Double the Spookiness! by Tao_Dragon

It has nothing to do with Halloween. It's referring to "spooky action at a distance" which is what Einstein called entanglement when it was discovered. He didn't understand it so he called it "spooky" because one particle could mysteriously control another particle far away.

sickofthisshit t1_iudixj1 wrote on October 30, 2022 at 2:46 PM

I get the Einstein reference, but it still seems heavy-handed in the headline.

vindictivemonarch t1_iudti3i wrote on October 30, 2022 at 4:01 PM

listen there's only a few physics jokes that are accessible to everyone to begin with lmao