Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Question - 548


This illustration (used in a famous scientific paper) alludes to what curious physical phenomenon?

Answer: The illustration is from the paper "Bertlmann's socks and the nature of reality" by John Stewart Bell. He alludes to the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox related to the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, eventually leading up to his famous theorem. Vetti, Jamie, tsp, and Dinesh got it. Well done.

4 comments:

Vetti said...

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete? by Einstein and co

Jamie said...

EPD correlation (Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen)

tsp said...

Bell's Theorem No physical theory of local hidden variables can ever reproduce all of the predictions of quantum mechanics.

Dinesh said...

Bertlmann's Socks - an illustration of how not to interpret the EPR paradox in QM.