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Re:A single photon reveals quantum entanglement of 16M atoms by blueprint on Sunday October 15, 2017 @08:00PM (#15480040)
> There's no mechanistic explanation for how this happens, it's just the way the universe appears to work.

Do you mean that a mechanistic explanation isn't known yet or that one doesn't exist?

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Re:A single photon reveals quantum entanglement of 16M atoms by jacknews on Sunday October 15, 2017 @08:58PM (#15480196)
I suppose, define "mechanistic", but one has not been discovered yet AFAIK, I could be wrong.

There are also many constraints (eg Bells Theorem) on what such an explanation could look like.

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