The World’s First Photo of Quantum Entanglement Could Disprove Einstein’s Theory

Einstein dubbed the idea of quantum entanglement as "spooky action at a distance." Now for the first time ever, scientists have taken a picture of it.

Today we understand quantum entanglement as when a pair of particles that cross paths and interact with each other can become connected and stay that way, even when the particles are spaced very far apart.

Once particles are intertwined in this way, changes to one particle can immediately shape the other particle, an odd scientific phenomenon that has been proven through experiments with atoms and molecules, and more recently through entangled objects of even larger scales.

Quantum entanglement is a key part of quantum mechanics, which forms the basis for fields such as quantum computing and cryptography, so there is considerable interest in advancing our understanding of it.

For scientists at the University of Glasgow, this led them to study a form of quantum entanglement known as Bell entanglement, described by late physicist John Stewart Bell.

Albert Einstein conceived of special and general relativity, but when it came to the idea that two particles can be entangled, and an impact on one particle could be instantaneously felt by the other particle, even over vast distances, for Einstein that was simply unbelievable.

Einstein even went to his grave a skeptic, but since then, quantum entanglement has been demonstrated time and time again, and now for the first time ever, researchers from the University of Glasgow have taken a picture of it.

Learn more about these photographed entangled photons and quantum entanglement on this episode of Elements.

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"The picture represents the first photograph made by quantum entanglement, or the "spooky" pairing of particles. 'The image we've managed to capture is an elegant demonstration of a fundamental property of nature, seen for the very first time in the form of an image.'"

Imaging Bell-type nonlocal behavior
"A BBO crystal pumped by an ultraviolet laser is used as a source of entangled photon pairs.The two photons are separated on a beam splitter (BS). An intensified camera triggered by a SPAD is used to acquire ghost images of a phase object placed on the path of the first photon and nonlocally filtered by four different spatial filters that can be displayed on an SLM (SLM 2) placed in the other arm."

'Spooky' Quantum Entanglement Finally Captured in Stunning Photo

"Recently, a group at the University of Glasgow used a sophisticated system of lasers and crystals to capture the first-ever photo of quantum entanglement violating one of what's now known as 'Bell's inequalities.'"

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[kingdmind]

- Photo of a Black Hole
- MRI of a single atom
- First look at Quantum Entanglement

[Kachlimpen.]

Nice, something to hang up next to the Black hole portrait.

[davidhand]

Is it just me or is this way too little information to understand what we're looking at? From the simplistic description, I have no idea what I should be seeing in that picture, or what I shouldn't see if the hypothesis was falsified. It's sensationalizing but shallow videos like this that make people dumber about science. Anyone with the illusion of knowledge is less likely to seek the whole truth. If you want to help with public science literacy, don't do it halfway.

[pickin]

Well professors and scientists are kind of going for the direction of *_pics or we ain't believing it_*

[GamingDemiurge]

Correction. Bell's inequalities disproved LOCAL hidden variables not hidden variable theories in general. Theories like Bohmian Mechanics are compatible with bell inequalities and perfectly valid.

[sebastianelytron]

Trying to disprove Einstein is a BAD idea...




relatively speaking.

[JustANormal-YTchannel]

Wow first it was a picture of a black hole, now a picture of a quantum entanglement in one year!?...
Man science is crazy!

[AGDinCA]

So Einstein thought this couldn't happen. None of his famous equations are reliant on quantum entanglement. Turns out QE works. Einstein is wrong, but it doesn't affect any of his major equations. So... kinda clickbait-ish?

[rea]

One of those photons winked at me! Flirty flirty 😀😀😀

[leot]

I also think the original "Pale Blue Dot" photo has to be one of the best pictures ever taken as well.

[deluxeassortment]

Since you prefer hype over clarity, I'll clarify: Einstein built an interpretation of the world in quantum mechanics as real and local. He did not bekieve in "spooky action at a distance", because it messed with the order of causality. Neils Bohr believed certain aspects of the sub atomic world were meaningless until we measured them.

So, what's being proven wrong is Einstein's local-realistic world-view. This doesn't disprove relativity. BUT, Einstein used realism and locality as axioms in his development of relativity. Maybe this is why his theory breaks down at the smallest level.

[WRAND]

I love these kind of content but the same time i dont understand.

[db]

For the History, He didn't just dubbed the idea of Q.Entanglement as Spooky. He was actually the first one to suggest (mathematically) in a paper that this phenomenon exists. This didn't came up by Bohr and the others. They didn't even realise that this exists. Einstein hoped this is a proof that Q.Mechanics is an incomplete theory. Of course, QE proved to be true and leads our research nowadays. Even his objections proved to be valuable! Also there is a research that goes to suggest that QE could be another phenomenon related to wormholes (Maldacena and Susskind). Remains to be seen.

[voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang]

"while each particle track passes through

just one slit, the wave passes through both; the interference profile
that consequently develops in the wave generates similar pattern in the
trajectory guided by the wave.





"And
so influenced that  the particle does not go where the waves cancel
out, but is attracted to where they cooperate. This idea seems to me so
natural and simple, to resolve the wave-particle dilemma in such a clear
and ordinary way, that it is a great mystery to me that it was so generally ignored." John Bell

[banzaipiegaming]

Please change the title. It's not even a "may". The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox was where the "Local Hidden Variable Theory" stemmed from and your title implies that the theory is still relevant. It has been disproven many years ago and many times over. Saying that a photo taken just recently may disprove that is not just misleading, it's incorrect.

PS - It wasn't "Eistien's theory". The initial skeptic paper that was supposed to disprove quantum entanglement using a "gedanken" experiment was published in 1935 and was the work of Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen. So please be respectful and credit all parties involved too.

[SonicSP]

I thought Einstein was disproven years ago in this matter? Quantum entanglement via this isn't exactly new.

Just felt like the title is really misleading/clickbaity because its already happened with plenty of evidence prior. Mind you the content of the video and the new advancement of a photo is still good.

[michaelflash]

the idea that we actually have camera's fast enough to capture a photon as well as the movement of a photon amazes me. The black hole is amazing too, but i think that is easier to do than imaging the movement of visible light itself, moving at the speed of light.

[IRONMAN-ohod]

How does it make Einstein's theory wrong when he was only sceptical and not his theory?

[nuitarix]

The man died 64 years ago. Heaven forbid we make advances in science and technology....

[aptibabayt]

I'm a physicist, and don't understand your explanation.
If they were sent to separate ways, how can a pic of both particles be taken?
Ifv they're in an opposite phase, how can they amplify each other?

Simplicity is good, up to the point it's too simplistic and unclear :/