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Einstein's brilliant mistake: Entangled states - Chad Orzel

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When you think about Einstein and physics, E=mc^2 is probably the first thing that comes to mind. But one of his greatest contributions to the field actually came in the form of an odd philosophical footnote in a 1935 paper he co-wrote -- which ended up being wrong. Chad Orzel details Einstein's "EPR" paper and its insights on the strange phenomena of entangled states.

The phenomenon of quantum entanglement seems to defy Einstein’s theory of relativity because:

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