A Thought Experiment Suggests a Simple Interpretation of Quantum Entanglement

Abstract

Quantum entanglement is a bizarre, counterintuitive phenomenon which shows that entangled subatomic particles remain related even when they are far apart, which was described by Einstein as “spooky action at a distance”. Although this phenomenon could be interpreted by a few theories, for example, the famous Copenhagen interpretation which describes that these states exist simultaneously by a wave function, however, there is still no unquestioned theory and it continues to puzzle people around the world. Here we propose a hypothesis that gravity cuts out stop functioning between subatomic particles based on the observations of a thought experiment. It is well known that the Universe is filled with various subatomic particles (e.g. cosmic neutrino background, CνB) and gravity is a universal force making any particle in the Universe attract any other. Based on these observations, it is expected that the CνB particles walking abreast will be combined together by their gravity after some time/distance, which will thus result in a greatly uneven distribution of CνB. However, the observational evidence showed that CνB is highly isotropic and homogenous, suggesting that gravity would no longer work at the subatomic scale. Thus, the relation of the paired subatomic particles would become some pure correlation of mass (or equivalent energy) status. In this case, time would be not required anymore due to the ineffectiveness of gravity. The proposed new interpretation matches the experimental observations well and finally possible thought experiments are presented to test this theory.