Einstein was wrong about quantum mechanics

Embracing spooky action at a distance

In the first instalment of our series on the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Tim Maudlin revisits Einstein’s famous disquiet with a prediction of quantum mechanics: the possibility of "spooky action at a distance".  As John Bell later proved, quantum mechanics is indeed a non-local theory, allowing for the outcomes of experiments separated by enormous distances to causally influence each other.

 

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