There's a big word that is bantered about by physicists but nobody really knows how it happens. The best explanation that I know of comes from string theory where the entangled particles in an EPR experiment are in contact via higher dimensions, which form a thread of compactified space from one particle to its partner: up and down, plus and minus, which divorce everytime one of them meets a stranger. Disentanglement is the ultimate informania.

wanda

Physicists are allowed to use words they really know nothing about: True in all of science. They are even allowed to make them up- like informania.

• definition - wandaqueen - December 17, 2004 - 18:25 UTC
  • phlogiston - carefuluniverse - December 17, 2004 - 20:34 UTC
    • Informational placebo - wandaqueen - December 18, 2004 - 04:26 UTC
      • Causality - doctordick - December 18, 2004 - 21:04 UTC
        • So much fun with 'Causality Violation' - carefuluniverse - December 19, 2004 - 20:36 UTC
          • Sorry you spent so much time on that! - doctordick - December 20, 2004 - 00:43 UTC
            • How much time is that, Dear Dr. D? - carefuluniverse - December 20, 2004 - 01:07 UTC
              • Your world view is in your head! - doctordick - December 21, 2004 - 11:41 UTC
                • Same to you but more of it ! - carefuluniverse - December 22, 2004 - 20:46 UTC
                  • We only think we think!!! - doctordick - December 22, 2004 - 21:27 UTC
                    • The pronoun is shifting... - carefuluniverse - December 23, 2004 - 04:18 UTC
        • I agree - wandaqueen - December 22, 2004 - 03:38 UTC
          • Sorry, I overlooked this earlier. - doctordick - December 22, 2004 - 21:43 UTC