Nick Herbert Quotes

Legendary King Midas never knew the feel of silk or a human hand after everything he touched turned to gold. Humans are stuck in a similar Midas-like predicament: we can't directly experience the true texture of reality because everything we touch turns to matter.

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

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

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

Bell himself managed to devise such a proof which rejects all models of reality possessing the property of "locality". This proof has since become known as Bells theorem. It asserts that no local model of reality can underlie the quantum facts. Bell's theorem says that reality must be non-local.

The quantum world is objective but objectless.

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

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