"We pretend that if I get result +1 here, immediately the photon there is in the state |x>, but if I find -1, immediately the other photon assume[s] another state of polarization... [T]his image is not acceptable for Einstein because it seems as [though] something is going . ...It is by this ...reasoning that Einstein said... "If you want to make sense of this correlation at a distance, you have to accept that before they arrive at the measuring apparatus, the particles have already a property determining the outcome." ...Bohr disagreed immediately. ...I don't know anybody who finds Bohr's reply understandable. It's not a joke, what I'm going to say, although it sounds [like] a joke. Bohr is so cautious in his wording that he makes it almost impossible to understand... Bohr insisted on complementarity, and at one point he declared... that "Clarity and truth are complementary," and he made all efforts to be as true as possible."
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Alain Aspect, "The future of quantum technologies: the Second quantum revolution" (Feb 13, 2019) 30:30-33:38. @Nokia Bell Labs YouTube channel.
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