Breaking news: Quantum Stu has decided to slum it with us ordinary folk and honour us by throwing some scraps of knowledge to us mere mortals.  

Seriously, I’ve now read his explanation of quantum entanglement ten times:

“Particles created at the same time are entangled, doing something to one will directly, instantly affect the other. And as all matter was at the same point and one at the moment of the big bang all the matter in the universe is entangled and connected, and space is just an illusion that they’re separate.”

Four cups of coffee later and my head still hurts.  Yes, I understand that me and the cups of coffee are all made of the same stuff… we’ve all been formed from the same original and expanding crumb of matter. But is the cup still ‘entangled’ with me? Is the cup entangled with all the other moments of coffee-cup-ness it’s had since it became a cup? What was it before it was a cup?  Is it even a coffee cup?  Is it only a coffee cup when I look at it? One guy in the video seems to say the coffee cup could exist in 3000 different places at once? How?

Have I just, in fact, had far too many cups of coffee now?

Help.  I need answers. And re-hydration.  Urgently.

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