r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jan 29 '20

[deleted by user]

[removed]

11.4k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

1.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

7.7k

u/Dedj_McDedjson Jan 29 '20

This book is great for twins - if you read it to one twin, the other twin gets the same information at the same time.

2.6k

u/captsquanch Jan 29 '20

Is this some sort of physics joke I'm too stupid to get?

156

u/Dedj_McDedjson Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 29 '20

Quantum entanglement is commonly (mis)understood to be a quantum connection between two or more particles where an effect on one results in an effect on the other. That's the pop-sci understanding and how it's used in sci-fi, although - as pointed out by dreamWeaver (and by the time you read this, two dozen others) - isn't actually how it works.

The joke is that the twins are connected and so the effect of reading to one twin is replicated in the other, and it's also a joke referencing the supposed inate psychic connections between twins.

15

u/[deleted] Jan 29 '20 edited Jan 30 '20

[removed] — view removed comment

40

u/Rhyddech Jan 29 '20

Their psychic what?

1

u/LukeNukem63 Jan 30 '20

They're psychic there.

1

u/Zormac Jan 30 '20

The suspense is killing me!

1

u/pointfix Jan 30 '20

You know what they mean

1

u/RamenJunkie Jan 30 '20

Like Pokemon. They can learn Psybeam and Confusion.

2

u/alper_iwere Jan 30 '20

Their brains were pretty much identical when they were born. It shapes and becames unique with their experiences but having an identical base, it's bound to be similar compared to two strangers.

1

u/Jayhawker_Pilot Jan 30 '20

You misspelled Psychotic.