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The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It - Scientific American

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Elegant experiments with entangled light have laid bare a profound mystery at the heart of reality

October 6, 2022 11 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm The Universe Is Not Locally Real. Here's How Physicists Proved It Elegant experiments with entangled light have laid bare a profound mystery at the heart of reality By Dan Garisto edited by Lee Billings Athul Satheesh/500px/Getty Images One of the more unsettling discoveries in the past half a century is that the universe is not locally real. In this context, "real" means that objects have definite properties independent of observation-an apple can be red even when no one is looking. "Local" means that objects can be influenced only by the

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