Spooky Action at a Distance

Most years we try to make videos about the Nobel Prize winners in chemistry and physics.

You can see past videos on chemistry at Periodic Videos and on physics at Sixty Symbols.

But this year we had a “spooky” coincidence.

I had a video with Professor Mike Merrifield scheduled for 4 October - it was about so-called Spooky Action at a Distance and Bell’s Inequality.

Literally minutes before I was due to press publish, the Nobel Prize in Physics was announced.

It related to Bell’s Inequalities.

Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger were honoured for “experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”.

We will probably still do a Sixty Symbols video on the prize in more detail soon… But here’s a fresh video about Bell’s Inequality.

As I am away in the US at the moment - this could truly be called “Spooky Action at a Distance”.

LATER ADDITION: Here is our reaction video to the prize announcement.