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Is the moon there when nobody looks? Reality and the quantum theory

Einstein maintained that quantum metaphysics entails spooky actions at a distance; experiments have now shown that what bothered Einstein is not a debatable point but the observed behaviour of the real world. [David Mermin is director of the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics at Cornell University. A solid-state theorist, he has recently come up with some quasithoughts about quasicrystals. He is known to PHYSICS TODAY readers as the person who made “boojum” an internationally accepted scientific term. With N.W.Ashcroft, he is about to start updating the world’s funniest solid-state physics text. He says he is bothered by Bell’s theorem, but may have rocks in his head anyway.]

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