I got these quotes from this site:

The first bit of strangeness is:

"A subatomic particle can spin clockwise or counterclockwise. Or, if it is cut off from the environment, a particle can stay in limbo -- going clockwise and counterclockwise at once. Only when the particle is measured or observed does it pick a direction and stick with it....When you look, it becomes one or the other. Your mere curiosity has changed its condition. "

Wait for it:

"Weirder still, a quantum particle's quirkiest talent may be its ability to be intimately linked, or entangled, with another. Even when two entangled particles are far apart, a change to one always affects the other.

Two entangled particles can be coupled so that they must swivel in opposite directions. Forcing one to spin clockwise will set the other spinning counterclockwise, no matter how far they are separated in space. They are fatefully entwined.

Einstein called this phenomenon "spooky action at a distance," but we Why Filers think it's romantic."

And this, my friends, is why I still believe in romance.

"...since real-world applications like quantum cryptography require distant entanglement, physicists have puzzled over how to overcome these obstacles. The Austrian team has done just that, in an experiment showing the entanglement of particles on opposite banks of the Danube in Vienna.

Star-crossed particles can maintain a magical connection, even across the Danube River.

Even from two buildings nearly 600 meters apart, during a night of 50 km/h winds, across trees and power lines, the particles stayed entangled. In effect, one particle could "communicate" with the other in an instant, without any visible connection bridging the two.

Such entanglement might someday lead to flawless cryptography. Like many traditional codes, a quantum code would consist of a series of ones and zeros (clockwise or counterclockwise). But since observing a message will change it, any intruders would be caught in the act. "

-- Sarah Goforth

I wonder if it has occured to any of these scientists that such "communication entanglements" already exist between human minds: it's called clairvoiance, otherwise known as 'psychic' or 'extra-sensory' perception (much as I loathe those terms) and even just plain old intuition. Perhaps what they have really discovered is the secret to the age-old legend of mind-reading. Is not the human mind made up of particles of energy? I have always been a firm believer that reality is only 10% material physicality, and 90% perceptual belief, both collective and individual, i.e. that our consciousness is shaped largely by mysterious, unseen forces beyond our imediate grasp. It also lead one to believe that the future is indeed the past, because particles don't live on 'human' time, and we are all, essencially, made up of the stuff of our ancestors, and every animal, vegitable, mineral that came before us and that will come after us. It like, blows the mind, dude.