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by gpsx 1801 days ago
I want to add to my above comment. Non-entanglement is a special mathematical case, but it happens quite often. If the two particles never interact in any way, then the special condition will be true and they will not be entangled. There is another case where the particles _appear_ not to be entangled. This is when the wave function is so jumbled that even though the particles are entangled you can't detect it. This is called a decoherence. This also happens quite often and is why macroscopic quantities don't exhibit entanglement and hence quantum behavior.