God and the Two Cosmic Dancers
I first learned about quantum entanglement while speaking with a physicist on the island of Kerrera, on Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. It was one of those quiet afternoons when the sea and sky seemed to merge into one, and our conversation turned to the unseen forces that bind the universe together.
Imagine two dancers—one from Glasgow, the other from Beijing. They bump into each other one busy afternoon on Buchanan Street. That’s all. They’ve never met before and will never meet again. Yet somehow, when one lifts her arm, the other does too—at the same instant. No delay. No signal sent through the air. Just an invisible knowing.
That, in an illustrative way, is what what happens when two particles—say, protons—become entangled.
It begins when they’re born together in the same quantum “dance,” perhaps in a high-energy collision in a laboratory, or deep within a star, far from any human eye. In that moment, their properties—spin, charge, magnetic orientation—become linked in a mysterious partnership. Once entangled, their fates are no longer independent; they share a single story.
Even if one proton ends up in a lab in Glasgow and the other in Beijing—or separated by light-years—the bond remains it is theorised. Measure one, and the other responds instantly. Einstein disliked this idea. He called it “spooky action at a distance.” Yet experiment after experiment has confirmed it.
What fascinates me most is what this says about reality itself. Entanglement suggests that the universe isn’t made of isolated pieces, but of relationships. Particles that once touched never entirely let go. Space isn’t an empty void, but a living fabric of invisible connections—threads of meaning woven through creation.
Some physicists even suggest that these invisible ties are what hold the universe together—that space, time, and reality itself might arise from this web of entanglement. But I see something deeper. As the writer of Hebrews reminds us: “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.” — Hebrews 11:3 (NIV).
So, when I hear about entangled protons, I hear more than a scientific marvel. I hear a whisper from the deep structure of existence—a reminder that everything which has ever met is still somehow connected. And as we look into that mystery, we find ourselves echoing David’s ancient question beneath the same starlit sky: “What is mankind that you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them?” — Psalm 8:4 (NIV).
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