IDG Contributor Network: The ripple effect

In quantum mechanics, the action of one sub-atomic particle in one location can impact another in a distant location even though they did not directly affect one another – relatively speaking of course. For those of you not so quantumly inclined (don’t feel bad because Einstein wasn’t a big fan either) you can think of this phenomenon using the old adage about interrelated consequences that that a butterfly flapping its wings in South America ultimately resulting in a typhoon