Once described as “spooky action at a distance” by the world’s most famous physicist, Albert Einstein, entanglement—the idea that two particles separated by vast distances could instantly influence each other—lies at the very heart of what makes quantum physics so strange and counterintuitive.
On Tuesday morning, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics to three quantum physicists — Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger — whose work confirmed this troubling phenomenon and placed it at the heart of a technical revolution. Aspect, Clauser, and Zeilinger will equally share the 10-million-krona ($915,000 USD) prize.
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In a statement on its website, the Nobel Committee says it jointly awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics to the trio for their separate “experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities, and pioneering quantum information science.”
Read more: Popular Mechanics
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