The Universe Is Not Locally Real

The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It Elegant experiments with entangled light have laid bare a profound mystery at the heart of reality By Daniel Garisto on October 6, 2022 John Stewart Bell (1928–1990), the Northern Irish physicist whose the universe is not locally real. I tried to understand this on the toilet this morning and during my struggle to comprehend it my legs got numb. That, unlike the universe, appears to be very real.

An article screenshot about quantum physics shows a bearded man standing beside a chalkboard covered in equations. The joke contrasts the abstract claim that the universe is not locally real with the speaker’s very real numb legs after sitting on the toilet too long. It is sent as an absurd reaction to complicated science, overthinking, or an unexpectedly profound idea.

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