> Don't forget that Einstein's position to Quantum Theory was comparable
Einstein's clever EPR paradox thought experiment was a fantastic contribution to Physics that had Bohr and others stumped for 30 years ... until out of nowhere, John Stewart Bell, an obscure physicist from Northern Ireland working at CERN in his day job, concocts Bell's theorem in his spare time on the weekends! So today we can do experimental tests of EPR. To date, all tests have found that the hypothesis of local hidden variables is inconsistent with the way that physical systems do, in fact, behave. That is, instantaneous "spooky action at a distance" (which Einstein felt to be obviously absurd) really happens!!
He (Albert Einstein) didn’t think the spooky action at a distance would be verified, but it was. He thought that was somehow unphysical. He presented this as an example of why quantum mechanics is probably wrong, but in fact it’s right.
-- Lawrence M. Krauss, quoted at Quantum_entanglement (wikiquote)
Update: Just to clarify, as noted at Faster than light communication: though quantum mechanics is non-local in the sense that distant systems can be entangled, quantum entanglement does not allow any influence or information to propagate superluminally.
In reply to Re^4: Organizational Culture (Part VII): Science
by eyepopslikeamosquito
in thread Organizational Culture (Part VII): Science
by eyepopslikeamosquito
| For: | Use: | ||
| & | & | ||
| < | < | ||
| > | > | ||
| [ | [ | ||
| ] | ] |