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59 | Adam Becker on the Curious History of Quantum Mechanics
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Importance of Spooky Action at a Distance
Einstein and Podolsky and Rosen make this point about spooky action at a distance. They wanted to make the case that if you believe there really is something actually happening in every location in space, then quantum mechanics couldn't be complete. Then John Bell comes along and says that, okay, Einstein is basically sketching out an aspiration. Some day we'll have a better theory that explains all this without spooky actionAt a distance. And Bell basically proved that no such theory can ever reproduce the predictions of quantum mechanics.
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