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Science 9 November 2001:
Vol. 294. no. 5545, p. 1265
DOI: 10.1126/science.294.5545.1265
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QUANTUM PHYSICS:
Spooky Twins Survive Einsteinian Torture

Charles Seife

It's a nagging truth that all physicists must face: Relativity and quantum mechanics don't mix, and when they square off, Einstein loses. Now Swiss physicists have brought the two great theories into the arena again. In an experiment that turns commonsense notions of causality on their head, the scientists showed that relativity's tools for dealing with the flow of time are irrelevant in the submicroscopic realm of quantum processes.

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