Einstein’s ‘spooky action’ survives one of the most extreme tests yet: CERN finds strong evidence that heavy Z bosons can become quantum-entangled
- Einstein famously found quantum mechanics so strange that he once referred to quantum entanglement as “spooky action at a distance”.
- More than a century later, one of the strangest predictions of quantum theory has now been tested in an environment far removed from the relatively low-energy systems where entanglement is usually studied.
- Physicists working with the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found strong evidence that two extremely short-lived, massive particles known as Z bosons can become quantum-entangled.
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- Einstein famously found quantum mechanics so strange that he once referred to quantum entanglement as “spooky action at a distance”.
- More than a century later, one of the strangest predictions of quantum theory has now been tested in an environment far removed from the relatively low-energy systems where entanglement is usually studied.
- Physicists working with the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have found strong evidence that two extremely short-lived, massive particles known as Z bosons can become quantum-entangled.
Sources: Times of India