{"id":147853,"date":"2022-10-09T17:23:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T22:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/first-experimental-proof-that-quantum-entanglement-is-real"},"modified":"2022-10-09T17:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T22:23:54","slug":"first-experimental-proof-that-quantum-entanglement-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/first-experimental-proof-that-quantum-entanglement-is-real","title":{"rendered":"First Experimental Proof That Quantum Entanglement Is Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-experimental-proof-that-quantum-entanglement-is-real2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>A Q&amp;A with Caltech alumnus John Clauser on his first experimental proof of quantum entanglement.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When scientists, including Albert Einstein and Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger, first discovered the phenomenon of entanglement in the 1930s, they were perplexed. Disturbingly, entanglement required two separated particles to remain connected without being in direct contact. In fact, Einstein famously called entanglement \u201cspooky action at a distance,\u201d because the particles seemed to be communicating faster than the speed of light.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Born on December 1, 1942, John Francis Clauser is an American theoretical and experimental physicist known for contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics, in particular the Clauser\u2013Horne\u2013Shimony\u2013Holt inequality. Clauser was awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in <i>Physics<\/i>, jointly with Alain Aspect and Anton Zeilinger \u201cfor experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Q&amp;A with Caltech alumnus John Clauser on his first experimental proof of quantum entanglement. When scientists, including Albert Einstein and Erwin Schr\u00f6dinger, first discovered the phenomenon of entanglement in the 1930s, they were perplexed. Disturbingly, entanglement required two separated particles to remain connected without being in direct contact. In fact, Einstein famously called entanglement [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}