Jeffry V. Mallow A, Helge Kastrup
Chapter 21 . Alain Aspect In quantum mechanics, two principles have been proposed that seemed to be in conflict. 1) The principle of locality (particles can only influence each other when being in communication distance) and 2) The principle of objective reality (particles should have definite properties even when we are not measuring them). Aspect is a French professor of physics employed at the Institut d’Optique in Paris-Saclay. His work covers quantum optics, cold atoms in Bose-Einstein condensates, and the quantum mechanical locality problem. In a ground-breaking series of experiments, he proved with great certainty that Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen, who argued for principle 2) above, were wrong. For this work, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2022, with John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger.
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