Physics

Huw Price, University of Cambridge and Ken Wharton, San José State University In 2022, the physics Nobel prize was awarded for experimental work showing that the quantum world must break some of our fundamental intuitions about how the universe works. Many look at those experiments and conclude that they challenge “locality” — the intuition that distant objects need a physical mediator to interact. And indeed, a mysterious connection between distant particles would be one way to explain these experimental results. Others instead think the experiments challenge “realism” — the intuition that there’s an objective state of affairs underlying our experience.…