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Maximum Entanglement Speed In Branchial Space

Just as a perturbation in physical space expands at the speed of light, a perturbation in branchial space expands at finite speed, implying a maximum entanglement speed in quantum mechanics (a very rough estimate being 10^5 solar masses per second); if correct, this would manifest as limits on very rapid mergers of large black holes and would mean Bell-inequality correlations, though seemingly instantaneous in physical space, are actually bounded propagation in branchial space.

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Speaker

Stephen Wolfram

Evidence Quote

One vague estimate that we have is the maximum entanglement speed is 10 to the 5 solar masses per second... If that was the right value we would observe limitations on black hole mergers of big black holes or very rapid mergers that are associated with maximum entanglement speed rather than speed of light.

Source

155 | Stephen Wolfram on Computation, Hypergraphs, and Fundamental PhysicsSean Carroll's Mindscape
Created: 6/13/2026, 3:30:55 AM

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