Entanglement and Why You Can't Let Go: The Physics of Non-Separation

Einstein looked up and saw clouds.

Not literal clouds, but when quantum mechanics showed him what was underneath the surface of reality, the entanglement, the non-locality, the spooky action at a distance, he looked at it the way you might look at a sky you were certain was blue and find it doing something impossible, like a thunderstorm arriving from nowhere.

He spent the last decades of his life trying to prove the clouds were solid, that the universe was local, that things existed independently in their own right, in their own location, separate from each other and from the minds that observed them.

He was wrong.

And what Bell and Aspect found underneath the clouds, behind the clouds, prior to the clouds, had been there the whole time.

The cloudless sky.

But before we go there, I want you to look at your own clouds.

Think of that person, the one you can't let go of, the relationship that still makes your chest tighten when their name comes up.

Stay with that contraction.

By the end of this episode, quantum physics is going to tell you exactly why you cannot let go.

And the Dharma is going to show you why you don't need to.