Einstein’s True Take on “Spooky Action at a Distance”
Ultimately, Einstein’s quote “spooky action at a distance” appears in every single article discussing quantum entanglement developments. This phrase is always recalled in a context highlighting how strange quantum entanglement is and often appears to suggest that Einstein did not accept the phenomenon due to its puzzling nature, as if he were not enough open-minded to consider such phenomena. Let us see why that was not exactly the case. The quote is often attributed to his famous paper " Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality be Considered Complete ?" written in collaboration with Podolski and Rosen (often called APR after the initials of the authors). With that paper, they actually hypothesized for the first time the existence of quantum entanglement, based on the latest developments in quantum mechanics, and on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in particular. However, the famous phrase "spooky action at a distance" is not from that pape...