Is quantum entanglement a four dimensional force?

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Why two bodies are related with each other despite the distance between them. It is unbelievable that entanglement exist regardless of any distance. Why on universe are so deeply connected with each other where distance does not play any role for the phenomena?
 
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Meruem said:
Why two bodies are related with each other despite the distance between them. It is unbelievable that entanglement exist regardless of any distance. Why on universe are so deeply connected with each other where distance does not play any role for the phenomena?
The universe works the way it works. It doesn't care whether you believe it or not. Entanglement is definitely counter-intuitive but it is what it is.
 
Sorry to say that but I wanted to know about the reason behind existence of quantum entanglement.
 
Meruem said:
Sorry to say that but I wanted to know about the reason behind existence of quantum entanglement.
There are various ways to prepare quantum objects so that one of their properties becomes entangled. Thereafter, there is no separate state for that property between the two objects but only a single state. It's complicated.
 
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I don't think we actually know the underlying mechanisms of entanglement and esp. as it might relate to "four dimensions", but isn't this is more a QM forum post than a sci-fi / fantasy one?
 
Meruem said:
I wanted to know about the reason behind existence of quantum entanglement.

If you are asking how it comes about in the math of QM, you're basically asking for an entire course in QM. That's beyond the scope of a PF discussion.

If you're asking why the universe works the way it does, nobody knows, and anyway that's not a question physics can answer.

Either way your question is unanswerable, so I am closing this thread.