From Nick Canning, Coleraine,<br/>County Londonderry, UK
Your report of this year’s physics Nobel prize asserts the winners showed “information could be instantly transmitted over infinite distances” 8 October, p 9. They didn’t. It can still only be transmitted at a maximum speed equal to the speed of light in a vacuum.
What the winners showed was that nature can’t be represented by a local-realistic model of the sort Albert Einstein favoured. God plays dice after all, as Niels Bohr believed and as quantum mechanics asserted. This ended the Bohr-Einstein debate over the completeness of quantum mechanics in Bohr’s favour.
