I realized early on in the first season that all of the "Science" on the show is intentionally terrible. I think they were trying to hint at the idea of "quantum entanglement" but they have no interest in showing us anything more realistic that something you would see in a 60's comic book. This is a universe where cold can freeze the light from laser beams solid, where you can catch a lightning bolt in your bare hands and throw it like a javelin,
where a guy that can run no faster than Mach 2 (around 1,500 mph) is fast enough to run back in time and break out of the event horizon of a black hole. It's silly on purpose.