There is a point where all the dumbing down of explanations actually prevents any kind of understanding.<p>It really really is unhelpful that this article tried so hard to use analogies to human scale actions to explain and in doing so fails to explain anything.<p>I do not pretend to understand the linked Nature paper, but at least by reading that I can google stuff and gain some understanding.<p>This is actually a quote from the paper author, yet i find it particularly unhelpful:<p>"The atoms are kind of like kids shushing each other to be quiet so they can hear about the party the teacher has promised them, but here it's the entanglement that does the shushing," says Thompson<p>Atoms are in absolutely no way kind of like kids.