The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.
Fifty years ago, John Bell made metaphysics testable, but quantum scientists still dispute the implications. Howard Wiseman proposes a way forward. In 1964, Northern Irish physicist John Bell proved ...
Einstein said that the wave function does not describe the physical state of a single object, but the possible states of an ensemble. He also said that quantum mechanics is not complete; there must be ...