Video: Spooky Actions At A Distance? Mysteries of the Quantum Theory, with N. David Mermin

J. Robert Oppenheimer Lecture: Spooky Actions At A Distance?

 March 31, 2008 

Speaker: N. David Mermin

Einstein's real complaint about the quantum theory was not that it required God to play dice, but that it failed to "represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky actions at a distance." I shall use the rhetorical device of a computer-simulated lecture demonstration (a cartoon version of recent experiments in Vienna) to explain both the appeal of Einstein's criticism and the remarkable act that the "reality" he insisted upon is nevertheless unattainable.