"One of the most puzzling results in modern physics, based originally on... EPR... is the apparent non-locality of measurements in . The experiments performed on pairs of entangled photons, beginning with the experiments by Alain Aspect in 1982, seem to prove... that the two measurements are not independent. The measurements are usually interpreted in terms of the Bell inequalities which assert that their violation, corresponding to the experimental results and... predictions of quantum optics, amounts to a nonlocal connection... There has been... debate on whether such... implies superluminal effects... for example Maudlin's book. The present consensus is that... no information travels faster than light..."
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Ref: Tim Maudlin, Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity (1994)
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Alain Aspect
Alain Aspect (born June 15, 1947) is a French physicist who performed the crucial "Bell test experiments" that showed that Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen's "spooky action at a distance", did in fact appear to be realised when two particles were separated by an arbitrarily large distance. A correlation between their wave functions remained, as they were once part of the same wave-function that was not disturbed before one of the child particles was measured.
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