A Lattice with No Inside or Outside: Quantum Mechanics as a Description of Entanglement
A woven basket holds its shape not because it has a rigid frame, but because each strand is interlaced with its neighbors. Pull one out, and the pattern unravels, leaving a heap of twigs. Quantum mechanics, according to a new paper, works the same way: its elementary objects do not exist independently, but only in interweaving with each other.