Test Shows Einstein Was Right About Quantum Mechanics Paradox

In a study published in the scientific journal Physical Review X, scientists presented data on the largest test to date on a major paradox in quantum mechanics called the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox. After analyzing the data, they realized that The paradox suggests that the theory of quantum mechanics is incomplete.

To perform the test, physicists Paolo Colciaghi and Yifan Li from the University of Basel, Switzerland, conducted a study with two entangled Bose-Einstein condensates. The results provided the first observation of the EPR paradox with multiparticle systems far apart.

“Our results represent the first observation of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox (EPR) regarding large spatially separated systems composed of many particles. The researchers show in the study that the conflict between quantum mechanics and local realism does not disappear as the system size increases to more than a thousand large particles.

By measuring the quantum properties of condensates, scientists realized that they were related. demonstrating that the paradox remains true even in tests with large particles; They were separated from each other up to 100 micrometers. The results show that quantum mechanics doesn’t obey the ordinary laws of physics, suggesting we still need to understand a lot more about the field.

What is the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox?

Quantum mechanics is one of the branches of science that aims to describe the universe with mathematical formulas, leaving some classical physics rules aside. But physicists Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen found an interesting flaw in quantum mechanics that suggested it was missing – hence the theory is called the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox.

The paradox explains the quantum entanglement that occurs when two particles mix in such a way that one affects the other even from afar. According to scientists, the results of quantum entanglement violate causality, because physics explains that an instantaneous effect cannot occur on two particles at the same time.

In any case, it is important to highlight The EPR paradox remains a puzzle.but recent research should help understand the nature of quantum mechanics – not for nothing they believe the issue may be much more complex than previously thought.

“The demonstration of EPR entanglement in conjunction with the spatial separation and individual addressing of the systems involved is not only important from a fundamental point of view, but also provides the necessary components to use EPR entanglement as a feature in multi-threaded systems”, the study concludes.