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How Bell’s Theorem Proved ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’ Is Real

By Ben Brubaker
July 20, 2021
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The root of today’s quantum revolution was John Stewart Bell’s 1964 theorem showing that quantum mechanics really permits instantaneous connections between far-apart locations.

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Ben Brubaker is a physicist and freelance science journalist whose writing has appeared in Scientific American and elsewhere. He received his Ph.D. in physics in 2017 from Yale University, where he worked toward the direct detection of dark matter, and he is currently a postdoctoral researcher in quantum information science at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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