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| | A new thought experiment indicates that quantum mechanics doesn't work without strange numbers that turn negative when squared.
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| | The 2022 Nobel Prize was announced this week, awarded 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. I've complained in the past about the Nobel prize awarding to "baskets" of loosely related topics. This year, though, the three...
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| | > Anybody who's not bothered by Bell's theorem has to have rocks in his head. - 'A distinguished Princeton physicist', as told to David Mermin This post is a long, idiosyncratic discussion of the Bell inequalities in quantum physics. There are plenty of good introductions already, so this is a bit of a weird thing...
| | scottaaronson.blog
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| So I've written an article about the above questionfor PBS's website---a sort of tl;dr version of my 2005 survey paperNP-Complete Problems and Physical Reality, butupdated with new material about the simulation of quantum field theories and about AdS/CFT. Go over there, read the article (it's free), then come back here to talk about it if...