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No local reality can explain the type of world we live in.

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Physicists, for all their odd notions, are basically a conservative lot.

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Most everywhere, most of the time, the world dwells in an unmeasured state.

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Strictly speaking, there are no "measurements" in the world, only correlations.

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Though today's quantum theory shows no sign of weakness, someday it may collapse.

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One of the best-kept secrets of science is that physicists have lost their grip on reality.

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The simplicity of Bell's proof opens it to everyone, not just physicists and mathematicians.

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Physicists cannot explain atoms to their children, not because we are ignorant but because we know too much.

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The gist of Bell's theorem is this: no local model of reality can explain the results of a particular experiment.

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A universe that displays local phenomena but upon a non-local reality is the only sort of world consistent with known facts and Bell's proof.

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So minuscule is the scale of quantum events compared to the actions of everyday life that it's a wonder humans ever found out about the quantum world at all.

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The entire visible universe, what Bishop Berkley called "the mighty frame of the world," rests ultimately on a strange quantum kind of being no more substantial than a promise.

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Quantum physics emerged from the Stone Age with an embarrassment of riches - three quantum theories, each claiming to explain the world. As it turned out, all three were right.

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