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Legendary King Midas never knew the feel of silk or a human hand after everything he touched turned to gold. Humans are stuck in a similar Midas-like predicament: we can't directly experience the true texture of reality because everything we touch turns to matter.

— Nick Herbert

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Strictly speaking, there are no "measurements" in the world, only correlations.

No local reality can explain the type of world we live in.

The gist of Bell's theorem is this: no local model of reality can explain the results of a particular experiment.

Most everywhere, most of the time, the world dwells in an unmeasured state.

The simplicity of Bell's proof opens it to everyone, not just physicists and mathematicians.

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