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born 1947 France

Alain Aspect (born June 15, 1947) is a French physicist who performed the crucial "Bell test experiments" that showed that Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen's "spooky action at a distance", did in fact appear to be realised when two particles were separated by an arbitrarily large distance. A correlation between their wave functions remained, as they were once part of the same wave-function that was not disturbed before one of the child particles was measured.

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I don't know anybody who finds Bohr's reply understandable.

The main difficulty in popularizing quantum physics is that we do not really know how to make images of it in our world. In this sense it is really counterintuitive.

His example opened the gate for new quantum explorations.

Introduction: John Bell and the second quantum revolution (2004)

Bohr insisted on... complimentarity, and at one point he declared... that "Clarity and truth are complimentary," and he made all efforts to be as true as possible.

The realization of the importance of entanglement and the clarification of the quantum description of single objects have been at the root of a second quantum revolution, and the John Bell was its prophet.

Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics – this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.

Introduction: John Bell and the second quantum revolution (2004)

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