“These experiments are a magnificent affront to our conventional notions of space and time. Something that takes place long after and far away from something else nevertheless is vital to our description of that something else. By any classical common-sense reasoning, that’s, well, crazy. Of course, that’s the point: classical reckoning is the wrong kind of reasoning to use in a quantum universe…

I remember feeling elated for a few days after I learned of these experiments. I felt I’d been given a glimpse into a veiled side of reality. Common experience—mundane, ordinary, day-to-day activities— suddenly seemed part of a classical charade, hiding the true nature of our quantum world. The world of the everyday suddenly seemed nothing but an inverted magic act, lulling its audience into believing in the usual, familiar conceptions of space and time, while the astonishing truth of quantum reality lay carefully guarded by nature’s sleight of hand.”

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