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by amelius 1179 days ago
So I take it that that Nobel prize was for a negative physical proof?
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Yes more or less. Bell's Theorem stated that if local realism holds (very roughly things continue existing separate from observation, and things can't influence other things faster than the speed of light), then certain measurements cannot correlate at higher than a certain rate. The relevant experiments show that for increasingly well designed and controlled cases, that these measurements correlate above the limit, and therefore local realism cannot be true.