Do quantum interactions help brain cells stay in sync? Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images
Nerve fibres in the brain could produce pairs of particles linked by quantum entanglement. If backed by experimental observations, this phenomenon could explain how millions of cells in the brain synchronise their activity to make it function.
鈥淲hen a brain is active, millions of neurons fire simultaneously,鈥 says at Shanghai University in China. Doing so requires even distant cells to coordinate their timing, which has led some researchers to wonder if this coordination could be due to what Einstein called 鈥渟pooky action at a distance鈥…



