Why no Nobel Prize for Experimental work on Bell's theorem?
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2021 3:27 am
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When I was a Ph.D. student in the second half of the 1980s under Abner Shimony in Boston, there was much anticipation every year of an impending Nobel Prize for John Clauser and Alain Aspect for their groundbreaking experimental work on Bell's theorem and discovering that the world we live in is fundamentally nonlocal.
Well, it has been forty years since the experimental work by John Clauser and Alain Aspect but no Nobel Prize for them so far or anyone else for their work on Bell's theorem. Why?
I think the Nobel Committee is quite sensible to completely ignore all the hype about Bell’s theorem and quantum information theory. They must know that much of that hype has no scientific basis but is based on a sociologically and politically sustained belief system, forcefully imposed on the physics community by only a handful of fanatic Bell-believers.
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When I was a Ph.D. student in the second half of the 1980s under Abner Shimony in Boston, there was much anticipation every year of an impending Nobel Prize for John Clauser and Alain Aspect for their groundbreaking experimental work on Bell's theorem and discovering that the world we live in is fundamentally nonlocal.
Well, it has been forty years since the experimental work by John Clauser and Alain Aspect but no Nobel Prize for them so far or anyone else for their work on Bell's theorem. Why?
I think the Nobel Committee is quite sensible to completely ignore all the hype about Bell’s theorem and quantum information theory. They must know that much of that hype has no scientific basis but is based on a sociologically and politically sustained belief system, forcefully imposed on the physics community by only a handful of fanatic Bell-believers.
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