Unveiling Entanglement. Information Fields as the Fabric of Nonlocality (Chapter 3)

José Pissolato Filho & Erico Azevedo

How Information Fields Theory Might Reveal the Fabric of Nonlocality

About the Book

Information Fields: Theory and Applications (Springer Nature, 2026) is a landmark publication that establishes a new frontier in science. Edited by Erico Azevedo and José Pissolato Filho, this volume brings together 17 chapters from leading researchers around the world to explore how information—not just matter and energy—may be a fundamental building block of reality. The book bridges quantum physics, biology, and psychology, offering a unified framework for understanding how information organizes the universe, from entangled particles to human consciousness.

[Link to book: https://link.springer.com/book/9789819517411]

About the Authors

José Pissolato Filho, PhD, is a Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (FEEC) at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), one of Brazil’s premier research institutions. A specialist in electromagnetic systems and field theory, Pissolato brings decades of experience in classical and quantum field theory to the information fields project. He coordinates the High Voltage Laboratory at UNICAMP, has published over 300 technical papers, and was awarded France’s prestigious “Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques” in 2012. His collaboration with Azevedo ensures that the information field theory rests on solid mathematical and physical foundations—bridging the classical world of electromagnetic fields with the quantum realm of entanglement and nonlocality.

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Erico Azevedo, PhD, is Senior Researcher in the field of Physics of Information Fields, with expertise spanning electrical engineering, clinical psychology, and philosophy. His unique trajectory—PhD in Electrical Engineering from UNICAMP (2020), PhD in Clinical Psychology from PUC/SP (2017), Master in Philosophy from PUC/SP (2011), and Specialist in Ontopsychology from Saint Petersburg State University (2007)—positions him as a rare bridge-builder between the exact sciences and the human sciences. As co-founder and Director of ORIONT, an institute dedicated to research and human potential development, Azevedo brings both theoretical rigor and practical vision to the information fields framework. Together, Azevedo and Pissolato represent the best of interdisciplinary science: rigorous mathematical foundations meeting bold theoretical synthesis, classical field theory meeting quantum nonlocality, engineering precision meeting philosophical depth.

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About the Institution: UNICAMP

The University of Campinas (UNICAMP) is consistently ranked among the top research universities in Latin America. Its School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (FEEC) is a center of excellence in electromagnetic systems, high-voltage engineering, and now, the emerging field of information fields theory. This chapter reflects UNICAMP’s commitment to pushing the boundaries of science across traditional disciplinary lines.

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The Central Idea: Entanglement Is Not a Mystery—It’s a Message

For nearly a century, quantum entanglement has been physics’ most provocative puzzle. Two particles, once interacted, remain connected across any distance—instantaneously influencing each other in ways that seem to violate relativity’s cosmic speed limit. Einstein dismissed it as “spooky action at a distance,” convinced it revealed quantum mechanics’ incompleteness. Bohr defended it as the very nature of reality.

The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger, settled the debate definitively: entanglement is real, nonlocality is fundamental, and Einstein was wrong.

But settling that debate opens another: what physically mediates these instantaneous correlations? How do particles “know” to correlate across the universe? What is the substrate of nonlocality? Azevedo and Pissolato propose a bold answer: information fields ($\boldΨ_I$) . Entanglement, they argue, is not a mysterious action-at-a-distance but a manifestation of a deeper informational geometry—a field that exists beyond spacetime, connecting particles through topology rather than signal propagation. The correlations Aspect measured and Zeilinger scaled are not quirks of probability but signatures of this hidden fabric.

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The Journey: From Planck’s Reluctant Quanta to the 2022 Nobel Prize

The chapter opens with a sweeping historical narrative, tracing the century-long quest to understand entanglement:

1900–1913: The Quantum Revolution Begins

Max Planck, a reluctant revolutionary, introduced the quantum hypothesis in 1900 to resolve the ultraviolet catastrophe—the failure of classical physics to explain blackbody radiation. “A theoretical interpretation had to be found at any cost, no matter how high,” he later wrote. His constant $h$ became the fingerprint of a granular reality.

Niels Bohr seized Planck’s idea and applied it to the atom in 1913, imposing quantum constraints on electron orbits. His model explained hydrogen’s spectral lines but raised deeper questions: why do electrons jump between levels? Classical causality dissolved into probability. Bohr’s Copenhagen Interpretation enshrined this ambiguity: quantum systems exist in superpositions until measured, collapsing only under observation. Einstein would later ask, “Do you really believe the Moon exists only when you look at it?“

1935: The EPR Paradox

Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen launched a philosophical offensive. They conceived a thought experiment: two particles interact and separate. Measuring one instantly determines the other’s state—even across cosmic distances. This “spooky action,” they argued, violated relativity and exposed quantum mechanics’ incompleteness. Reality, they insisted, must be local (no faster-than-light influences) and deterministic (hidden variables governing outcomes).

Bohr’s rebuttal was equally pointed: “There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum description.” The debate was philosophical—untestable.

1964: Bell’s Theorem

John Bell, an unassuming physicist in Geneva, transformed philosophy into physics. He derived a mathematical inequality proving that any local hidden variable theory would produce statistical limits violated by quantum predictions. Bell’s theorem crystallized the conflict: either Einstein was wrong about locality, or quantum mechanics was wrong about its predictions.

The race to test Bell’s inequality began.

1972: Clauser and Freedman’s First Test

Despite peer skepticism, John Clauser and Stuart Freedman built an apparatus to measure entangled photons. Their results aligned with quantum mechanics, not hidden variables. Clauser recalled, “I was told I’d ruin my career.” While favoring quantum mechanics, experimental loopholes remained.

1980s: Aspect’s Loophole-Free Experiments

Alain Aspect refined the experiment with rapid polarization switches, closing the locality loophole. His results were unequivocal: 9σ violation of Bell’s inequalities—a statistical certainty that left no room for doubt. Later refinements pushed this to 40σ. Aspect concluded:

Einstein’s intuition was wrong… Nature is profoundly nonlocal.

1999–2010s: Zeilinger’s Macroscopic Entanglement

Anton Zeilinger shattered another assumption: that entanglement was confined to microscopic particles. His team entangled buckyballs—60-carbon molecules shaped like soccer balls—proving quantum coherence persists in large systems. GHZ states (maximally entangled N-particle systems) showed nonlocality strengthens with system size.

Zeilinger’s quantum teleportation experiments provided blueprints for quantum communication networks. By 2017, his team demonstrated entanglement over 143 kilometers between the Canary Islands, establishing the feasibility of satellite-based quantum communication.

2022: The Nobel Prize

The Nobel Committee awarded Aspect, Clauser, and Zeilinger for their “experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.” In his Nobel lecture, Zeilinger mused:

Entanglement isn’t just about particles. It’s about the universe having a way to connect things we once thought separate.

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The Missing Piece: What Mediates Entanglement?

For all its triumphs, the Nobel-winning work leaves a question unanswered: what is the physical mechanism of nonlocality?

Aspect’s photons correlate instantaneously. Zeilinger’s buckyballs maintain coherence across macroscopic scales. Bell’s theorem proves no local signals can explain these correlations. But what does explain them?

Azevedo and Pissolato propose that entanglement arises from a deeper informational substrate—the $\boldΨ_I$ field introduced in Chapter 1.

Key insights

Nonlocality as Field Topology

In $Ψ_I$, entangled particles are not “connected” in spacetime but share a topological link in the information field. Their correlation is not a signal passing between them but a property of their joint embedding in $Ψ_I$. The mathematical expression:

captures this: the field itself enforces antisymmetry under particle exchange, encoding entanglement as a geometric phase.

Aspect’s Results Explained

The correlation function $C(\theta) = -\cos(2\theta)$ emerges naturally from $Ψ_I$‘s nonlocal kernel:

The kernel $G$ ensures instantaneous phase coherence across arbitrary separations. Measurement choices ($\theta$) induce phase shifts in $\Phi_{I}$, producing the observed statistical dependence.

Zeilinger’s Scalability Explained

For N-particle GHZ states, $Ψ_I$‘s coherence scales hierarchically:

where $\mathcal{S}_{N}$ ensures global phase coherence. The correlation strength:

explains why entanglement strengthens with system size—coherence doesn’t “leak away” but transitions into higher-order organizational modes within $\Phi_{I}$.

The Lagrangian of Nonlocality

$Ψ_I$formalizes nonlocality as a field-theoretic property governed by:

where $(∂_μ Φ_I )^2$ encodes $\Phi_{I}$‘s dynamics and $\mathcal F[ψ]$ couples $\Phi_{I}$ to matter fields. This framework transforms nonlocality from a puzzling quantum artifact into a universal feature of an information-theoretic cosmos.

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Beyond Physics: Entanglement in Biology, Consciousness, and Technology

If $Ψ_I$ is real, its implications extend far beyond quantum foundations:

Biology: Gurwitsch and Montagnier

Alexander Gurwitsch’s “mitogenetic radiation” (1920s) and Luc Montagnier’s DNA-induced electromagnetic signals in water (2009) suggest biological systems exhibit non-classical information transfer. Under $Ψ_I$, DNA and cell membranes act as antennae for the information field, with base-pair oscillations imprinting low-frequency modulations onto $\Phi_{I}$. The “memory of water” could reflect topological solitons in $\Phi_{I}$, preserving bio-informational patterns without chemical carriers.

Consciousness: Orch-OR and Microtubules

The Hameroff-Penrose Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) theory posits that microtubules perform quantum computations underlying consciousness. $Ψ_I$ refines this: microtubular lattices may be natural waveguides for $\Phi_{I}$, with tubulin dipoles forming topologically protected qubits. Conscious moments could correspond to $Ψ_I$ phase transitions, where Planck-scale fluctuations in spacetime geometry are filtered through $\Phi_{I}$‘s coherence.

If $\Phi_{I}$ mediates Orch-OR, EEG harmonics (e.g., γ-band synchrony) should correlate with topological invariants in $\Phi_{I}$‘s spectral density—a testable prediction.

Technology: Noise-Free Quantum Sensors

Decoherence plagues quantum devices, but $Ψ_I$ suggests a radical workaround: engineering $\Phi_{I}$ boundary conditions to suppress noise. A material with negative coupling could impose $\Phi_{I} |{\partial\Omega} = 0$, creating a decoherence-free subspace for sensors. Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) spin coherence times could be boosted by $\Phi_{I}$ phase-locking, enabling ultraprecise magnetometers and room-temperature quantum computing.

Cosmology: ER=EPR and the Fabric of Spacetime

The ER=EPR conjecture (Einstein-Rosen bridges = entangled particles) suggests spacetime itself may be woven from entanglement. $Ψ_I$ could formalize this link if $\Phi_{I}$ interacts with spacetime curvature. If verified, $Ψ_I$ might resolve the black hole information paradox by treating Hawking radiation as a $\Phi_{I}$-mediated reconstruction of quantum states.

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What This Chapter Achieves

“Unveiling Entanglement” does three things exceptionally well:

1. It tells the story. The century-long quest from Planck’s quanta to the 2022 Nobel Prize is rendered with clarity and drama—a narrative that honors the scientists while making their work accessible.
2. It asks the next question. Having established that entanglement is real, it asks how it works—and proposes a compelling answer in $Ψ_I$.
3. It extends the vision. By connecting entanglement to biology, consciousness, and technology, it positions $Ψ_I$ not as a mere interpretation but as a unified framework spanning scales and disciplines.

As the authors write, channeling Aspect’s Nobel challenge:

Aspect and Zeilinger gave us the what. Now, $Ψ_I$ demands we explore the how—and in doing so, rewrite the rules of reality.

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Connections to Other Chapters

This chapter builds directly on Chapter 1‘s introduction of $Ψ_I$ and resonates with:

• Chapter 2 (Sabbadini): Information persistence as the key to measurement—entanglement as the ultimate persistent correlation.
• Chapter 4 (Bandyopadhyay): Fractal hyperspace geometry—the mathematical architecture that may underlie $\Phi_{I}$‘s topology.
• Chapter 9 (Sheldrake): Morphic resonance—collective memory in nature is possibily mediated by $Ψ_I$.
• Chapter 10 (Meneghetti): Semantic field—unconscious information transmission between humans, potentially a manifestation of $Ψ_I$ at the psychological level.
• Chapter 11 (Radin): Nonlocal experiences in quantum reality—psi phenomena as $Ψ_I$-mediated correlations.

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Key Takeaways

1. Entanglement is real and fundamental. The 2022 Nobel Prize confirmed that nonlocality is not a quirk but a feature of nature, operating from photons to molecules.
2. Aspect’s experiments closed the loopholes. With 40σ certainty, local hidden variable theories are ruled out. Nature is profoundly nonlocal.
3. Zeilinger proved entanglement scales. Buckballs, GHZ states, and multi-photon interference show quantum coherence persists in macroscopic systems.
4. But the mechanism remains mysterious. What physically mediates instantaneous correlations? $Ψ_I$ proposes an answer: a primordial information field.
5. $\boldΨ_I$ explains nonlocality as topology. Entangled particles share a topological link in $\Phi_{I}$, not a signal in spacetime.
6. The mathematics works. $Ψ_I$‘s Lagrangian and nonlocal kernel reproduce Aspect’s correlations and Zeilinger’s scalability.
7. Implications extend beyond physics. From DNA signaling to microtubule coherence to room-temperature quantum sensors, $Ψ_I$ offers a unified framework.
8. ER=EPR may find its mechanism. If $Ψ_I$ couples to gravity, it could formalize the connection between entanglement and spacetime.

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For Further Exploration

• UNICAMP FEEC: https://www.fee.unicamp.br
• ORIONT Institute: https://oriont.org
• Key papers: Aspect (1982), Zeilinger (1999), Bell (1964)
• Nobel Prize 2022:https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/summary/

Explore other Information Fields book chapters

Part I: The Physical Realm

Chapter 1: Information Fields as a Fundamental Physical Primitive
Erico Azevedo & José Pissolato Filho

Chapter 2: The Persistence of Information in a Quantum Reality
Shantena Sabbadini

Chapter 3: Unveiling Quantum Entanglement
Erico Azevedo & José Pissolato Filho

Chapter 4: Fractal Hyperspace Engineering
Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Sudeshna Pramanik & Pushpendra Singh

Part II: The Biophysical Realm

Chapter 5: Long-Distance Cellular Communication: A Review
Mariana Cabral Schveitzer & Maria Luiza Bazzo

Chapter 6: Biofields and Bioenergy
Konstantin Korotkov

Chapter 7: Developmental Biology and Morphogenetic Fields
Ricardo Ghelman

Chapter 8: Imperfection as the Foundation of Life
Ivan V. Savelev, Michael M. Rempel, Oksana Polesskaya, Richard Alan Miller & Max Myakishev-Rempel

Part III: The Biopsychical Realm

Chapter 9: Morphic Resonance and Beyond
Rupert Sheldrake

Chapter 10: Semantic Fields
Antonio Meneghetti

Chapter 11: Nonlocal Experiences in a Quantum Reality
Dean Radin, Helané Wahbeh, Garret Yount, Thomas Brophy, Sitara Taddeo & Arnaud Delorme

Chapter 12: Nonlocal Human Communication: A Unified Framework via the $Ψ_I$ Field
Erico Azevedo

Chapter 13: Exploring the Dimensions of Consciousness
Tommy Akira Goto

Part IV: Applications

Chapter 14: Information Fields in Psychology
Erico Azevedo & Nathália Perin

Chapter 15: Medical Systems and Integrative Health
Ricardo Ghelman, Caio S. Portella & José Ruguê Ribeiro Junior

Chapter 16: Intuition and Noise in Decision Making
Erico Azevedo

Chapter 17: From Metaphysics to Science
Alécio Vidor

Conclustion

About ORIONT

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