Nerve fibres in the brain could generate quantum entanglement

Nerve fibres in the brain could produce pairs of particles linked by quantum entanglement. If backed by experimental observations, this phenomenon could clarify how thousands and thousands of cells in the brain synchronise their exercise to make it operate.

“When a brain is active, millions of neurons fire simultaneously,” says Yong-Cong Chen at Shanghai University in China. Doing so requires even distant cells to coordinate their timing, which has led some researchers to marvel if this coordination could be attributable to what Einstein known as “spooky action at a distance”…