Love

Love behaves like a human version of quantum mechanics.

Two people get close enough for their states to cohere, and then physically separate carrying correlations they can’t break.

If one person finally snaps into a definite emotional state, the other gets dragged along because the relationship only has one stable configuration left. Nobody gets to opt out of the collapse.

Meanwhile each person carries a stack of overlapping, incompatible thoughts about the other, a kind of emotional superposition. None of it matters until something forces a choice. Then the whole thing resolves into a single, tidy position, and both people pretend it was obvious all along.

That’s the best way yet I’ve heard to explain quantum mechanics..