Dutch scientists have debunked Einstein's of quantum entanglement, by proving that the "spooky" effect is in fact, very much real and that just simply observing one particle can instantly change another far-away object.
Researchers at the Delft University of Technology conducted an experiment this week that showed how two electrons at separate locations, 1.3 km apart, on campus were able to instantaneously affect each other. While earlier tests had questioned whether the phenomenon, as suggested by the quantum theory, truly existed, the new study closes these loopholes, according to ABC News.
Einstein famously referred to the phenomenon as "spooky action at a distance" in 1935, saying it must be wrong and that there have to be undiscovered properties of particles to explain this curious behaviour.
The scientists who performed the experiment with entangled electrons held in tiny diamond traps, 0.8 miles apart, on opposite sides of the campus at Delft University. They did this in such a way that there was no chance of them secretly communicating. However, electrons have a magnetic property known as "spin" that can be pointing either up or down. The occurrence is observed in the same way as a spinning or flipping coin that could land on either side, according to the Daily Mail.
Einstein was unhappy with the uncertainty that the quantum theory posed to him and described its implications as akin to God's playing dice. The new experiment, conducted by a group led by Ronald Hanson, a physicist at the Dutch university's Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, and joined by scientists from Spain and England, is the strongest evidence yet to support the most fundamental claims of the theory of quantum mechanics about the existence of an odd world formed by a fabric of subatomic particles, where matter does not take form until it is observed and time runs backward as well as forward, according to The New York Times.
