[DSRP Evidence](https://dsrpevidence.org/)

# Entangled pair: is there a whole at all?

Quantum physics · 

## Why it looked like it would break the theory

Entanglement seemed to present a whole with no genuine parts: neither particle has a complete state of its own, while the pair does.

## Why it failed

**The counterexample failed** because dependence is not absence. The two particles remain parts of the pair; they simply cannot be fully specified independently of the whole. DSRP permits nonseparable parts and predicts this part–whole dependence.

Settled by [R5](https://dsrpevidence.org/resolution/5). Not yet published.

[Read it](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-024-09708-2)

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