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Graduate Student.

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Comedian or Scientist. I like to think I have all but succeeded

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The Night Watch/Green Wing/James

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summer job at the European Court of Justice

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Sciences > Physics The secret of the EPR experiment

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Einstein and his students Podolsky and Rosen were unhappy with quantum mechanics. (QM) 'It's not deterministic' they said. 'It's indeterminate' they complained. (I'll come back to this difference later) They developed a number of thought experiments that they claimed 'refuted' QM. Many of these were shot down by Nils Bohr, Einstein's arch nemesis in these debates. One that stuck, however was the one that became known as EPR, after its creators. The original EPR involves the uncertainty between position and momentum, which is very tricky. An easier example due to Bohm which captures the pro...

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