"It deals with an imaginary experiment, but like so many other works of the imagination this one has surpassed the intentions of its creators. In the first place, it is unlikely that they thought that the experiment they were proposing, or any facsimile, would ever be carried out. This, thanks largely to the work inspired by Bell, has now happened. Indeed, our physics journals are now resplendent with new and ever more ingenious versions of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment, along with increasingly accurate experimental results. In the second place, and this is also an aftermath of Bell’s work, the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment has made its way into much of the popular folklore about the quantum theory. (It is usually referred to in the literature, familiarly, as the EPR experiment.)"