Quantum Entanglement and the Great Bohr Einstein Debate

Quantum Entanglement and the Great Bohr-Einstein Debate

The 1927 conference on quantum mechanics was held to discuss how the many seemingly contradictory observations could be reconciled. Schrödinger and de Broglie showed up with their ideas. But the eight-hundred pound gorilla was Bohr.

Einstein argued that elementary particles maintained their intrinsic values whether they were being observed or not. Bohr believed that in observing such particles we collapsed a wave function of probabilities. He asserted that it is only when these wave functions collapse that one of many probabilities is chosen and the particles take on distinct values. Quantum entanglement, John Stewart Bell and Alain Aspect eventually proved that Bohr was correct.

Written and hosted by Matt O’Dowd

Produced by Rusty Ward

Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)

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