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Just because things get a little dingy at the subatomic level doesn't mean all bets are off.

— Murray Gell-Mann

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You don't need something more to get something more. That's what emergence means.

The false report that measuring one of the photons immediately affects the other leads to all sorts of unfortunate conclusions.

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