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Einstein's Quantum Riddle! In Memoriam to Dr. Andy Friedman (#326)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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The Importance of Choice in Quantum Theory

In his skepticism towards quantum theory, Einstein advocated a worldview which has come to be called local realism. In the 1960s, John Bell, a famous physicist, took some of Einstein's ideas and formalized them mathematically. The experiment is designed to put some tension on this third assumption about freedom of choice. There are lots of practical reasons why we're also interested in this and the documentary will go into more detail.

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