This suspicion that mathematical phase entanglement is evidence for a real world quantum connection was strengthened by John Bell’s discovery that quantum correlations are too strong to be explained by ordinary knowledge models of the silver/gold coin variety. Bell’s theorem, reviewed in Chapter 12, shows that to account for the behavior of certain two-photon systems, extremely drastic models of reality must be invoked, models that necessitate the real existence of a pervasive and powerful long-range connectedness.
