2022 Nobel Physics Prize goes to seminal tests of spooky action at a distance

Enlarge / The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger, “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.”Niklas Elmehed/Nobel Prize Outreach

Cornell University physicist N. David Mermin once described quantum entanglement as “the closest thing we have to magic” since it means that disturbances in one part of the universe can instantly affect distant other parts of the universe, somehow bypassing the cosmic speed-of-light limit. Albert Einstein memorably dubbed it “spooky action at a distance.” Today, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored three

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