{"id":424469,"date":"2025-12-04T16:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424469\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:39:16","slug":"chinese-physicists-prove-einstein-wrong-and-put-century-old-debate-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/424469\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese physicists prove Einstein wrong and put century-old debate to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">scientists<\/a> in China have faithfully recreated a thought experiment proposed by Albert Einstein nearly a century ago, showing that the quantum world behaves in ways the iconic physicist never fully accepted.Pan Jianwei \u2013 known as the country\u2019s <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3281598\/chinas-father-quantum-says-global-secure-communications-just-3-years-away?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cfather of quantum\u201d<\/a> \u2013 and his team at the University of Science and Technology of China built a device sensitive enough to register the tiny push of a single photon.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Einstein laid out a modified version of the famous double-slit experiment at the historic 1927 Solvay Conference in Brussels, hoping it would disprove Bohr\u2019s view that a particle\u2019s path and its wavelike interference pattern could not be observed at the same time.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Bohr believed this was not a technical limitation but a fundamental rule of nature. Einstein disagreed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The 1927 Solvay Conference in Brussels was the most iconic meeting in the history of quantum physics, when Albert Einstein (front row, centre) and Niels Bohr (middle row, right) disagreed on the fundamental nature of the emerging field. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/387b99c3-f8c9-46b2-ae2c-7b4224412dbf_83b7cdd0.jpg\" title=\"The 1927 Solvay Conference in Brussels was the most iconic meeting in the history of quantum physics, when Albert Einstein (front row, centre) and Niels Bohr (middle row, right) disagreed on the fundamental nature of the emerging field. Photo: Handout\"\/>The 1927 Solvay Conference in Brussels was the most iconic meeting in the history of quantum physics, when Albert Einstein (front row, centre) and Niels Bohr (middle row, right) disagreed on the fundamental nature of the emerging field. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In a paper published on Wednesday in Physical Review Letters, the researchers confirmed Bohr\u2019s thinking that both properties cannot be observed at once \u2013 a principle that defines the limits of human knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time, scientists in China have faithfully recreated a thought experiment proposed by Albert Einstein nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":424470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[48619,154480,197880,8957,74,152413,197878,67157,84672,84674,492,8068,197881,197879,159,197882,67,132,84673,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-424469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-albert-einstein","9":"tag-american-physical-society","10":"tag-bohrs-principle","11":"tag-brussels","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-dark-matters-newsletter","14":"tag-double-slit-thought-experiment","15":"tag-niels-bohr","16":"tag-pan-jianwei","17":"tag-physical-review-letters","18":"tag-physics","19":"tag-quantum-mechanics","20":"tag-quantum-theory","21":"tag-rubidium-atom","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-solvay-conference","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-university-of-science-and-technology-of-china","27":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}