A physicist collects the Nobel Prize for proving that Einstein was wrong about how reality works. Almost nobody watches the lecture.
This is Anton Zeilinger in Stockholm, December 2022. The title is a voyage through quantum wonderland.
He shared the prize with Alain Aspect and John Clauser for experiments with entangled photons that violated Bell inequalities. Einstein argued the correlations must come from hidden variables carried along by each particle. The experiments say no.
That result is not philosophy. Quantum cryptography and quantum computing exist because it held up in the lab.
Watch how he tells it as a personal route. Neutron experiments first, then photons, then the tests that closed the loopholes 1 by 1 over decades.
A cryptography engineer I know rewatched the middle section twice and said the security proofs finally rested on something physical.
Free on YouTube from the Nobel Prize channel, subtitles on.
Einstein wrote the objection in 1935. The lab answered in 2022.
