“Will you quantum marry me?” Clearly, these are the words that every science geek long to hear from their beloved. After all, we want the union of two special people to be something phenomenal. For some this means incorporating a divine being or two into the proceedings. For others, it means bombarding their bodies with quantum-entangled particles so that no matter how vast the geographic distance between two people grows, they’ll always be holding hands in the quantum realm.

The idea comes to us via experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats and is based on the idea of quantum entanglement, in which two subatomic particles thousands of light-years apart can instantaneously respond to each other’s motions. Scientists have observed this phenomenon at the particle level, and in 2009, managed to produce the effect with linked superconductors . The possible applications include faster-than-light signaling, teleportation and — of course — AWESOME WEDDINGS.