Love and quantum entanglement

Okay, so I watched that movie "What the *Bleep* Do We Know" and I had some thoughts. Of those thoughts, I'll share an impression the film leaves regarding love.

The "experts" (they were sorta like narrators) in the film begin to shift more toward biological processes and the brain at one point. This makes its way into addiction and love, which, chemically, are quite similar. When one love, one experiences a pattern of chemical transactions in the brain that cognitively have an object (he/she whom one love). When one (the "lover") no longer gets what one needs from this person (the "lovee"), the patterns change. So love is actually a series of chemical reactions within a person; this means that when you fall in love with someone, you are really in love with how you feel when you love someone (see also addictions). Take that away, addiction's done, lovin's over.

I don't want to believe that. I mean, it makes total sense, as we are made of chemicals, and if there is a change in our bodies or minds, it must be chemical in nature. And what about that guy or girl whom you loved who left you? Or cheated? How do you feel then, when someone doesn't return your love? Do you still love that person if he or she gives you nothing? Is it really love if you expect something in return? Suffice to say, after asking myself these questions, I was down in the dumps.

But there was another portion of the film that talked more about the physics end of reality (if I have lost you, go watch the movie!), and since physics was my major in college, I was fully tuned. A particular bit was about quantum entanglement; I won't get into the nuts and bolts of all that (again, watch the movie), but the gist of it is that all matter in the universe is interconnected, responding to stimuli that other matter is subjected to...

Okay, okay, since you're twisting my arm now, I will clarify. Quantum entanglement is a phenomenon we have seen in which two particles, let us say electrons for example, come in contact with each other somehow (maybe within an atom) and then move apart from each other. They can travel very far from each other, even millions of light years (a light year is the distance that light travels in a year); perform an action on one of the electrons. Its distant companion will respond.

(It may help some of you to read up on the spin antisymmetry of atomic electrons.)

Now, this change would be instantaneous, meaning that the information about the stimulus to one electron would travel many, many times the speed of light to the other electron. We could even assume that this information travels at infinite speed. This is a huge deal! Especially when you consider that during the Big Bang, all matter in the universe was connected together and in contact. So that means that all matter is entangled. And every human on the face of the Earth is connected to all the others (not to mention everything else, living or not).

We are all connected to each other. How's that for love? That idea is the one I embrace.