{"id":164966,"date":"2023-06-01T23:27:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T04:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/realizing-the-einstein-podolsky-rosen-paradox-for-atomic-clouds"},"modified":"2023-06-01T23:27:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T04:27:37","slug":"realizing-the-einstein-podolsky-rosen-paradox-for-atomic-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/realizing-the-einstein-podolsky-rosen-paradox-for-atomic-clouds","title":{"rendered":"Realizing the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox for Atomic Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/realizing-the-einstein-podolsky-rosen-paradox-for-atomic-clouds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new demonstration involving hundreds of entangled atoms tests Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s interpretation of Einstein, Rosen, and Podolsky\u2019s classic thought experiment.<\/p>\n<p>In 1935, Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) presented an argument that they claimed implies that quantum mechanics provides an incomplete description of reality [1]. The argument rests on two assumptions. First, if the value of a physical property of a system can be predicted with certainty, without disturbance to the system, then there is an \u201celement of reality\u201d to that property, meaning it has a value even if it isn\u2019t measured. Second, physical processes have effects that act locally rather than instantaneously over a distance. John Bell subsequently proposed a way to experimentally test these \u201clocal realism\u201d assumptions [2], and so-called Bell tests have since invalidated them for systems of a few small particles, such as electrons or photons [3].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new demonstration involving hundreds of entangled atoms tests Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s interpretation of Einstein, Rosen, and Podolsky\u2019s classic thought experiment. In 1935, Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) presented an argument that they claimed implies that quantum mechanics provides an incomplete description of reality [1]. The argument rests on two assumptions. First, if the value of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164966","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\/164966","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}