At the end of last week, I went to the Joint Quantum Institute at Maryland to help run the second edition of The Schrödinger Sessions, a workshop giving science fiction writers a “crash course” in quantum physics. This featured two and a half days of talks from JQI scientists about the basics of the theory, and areas like quantum computation, quantum foundations and, of course, entanglement. One of the great things about doing this kind of workshop is getting to hear the ways that really smart people describe their research fields, which often prove very illuminating. Last year, for example, I got this pachinko analogy for quantum statistics from Trey Porto. This year, I’m stealing from adapting