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Physicists Just Entangled A Pair of Atomic Clocks Six Feet Apart
Few things in the Universe keep the beat as reliably as an atom's pulse.
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So if you have two entangled clocks and send one on a long space journey would they keep the same time?
That's a good question, but then another one comes up: our idea of time is based on our seasons, the sun, the moon and how we divide our planet in timezones. The civilisations two million lightyears away may have a completely different concept of time or even none at all (since time is an illusion and top most a description of change). In that light, the answer would be no or probably not. So, is time more contextual than a fact?
The clocks would still have the same beat, yes.
The problem being that quantum physics and relativity are in conflict over this one.
They are working on it! :-)