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George Musser
Author, “Spooky Action at a Distance”
George Musser is a contributing editor at Scientific American magazine and the author of two books, Spooky Action at a Distance and The Complete Idiot's Guide to String Theory. He is the recipient of the 2011 American Institute of Physics Science Writing Award and the 2010 American Astronomical Society’s Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT from 2014 to 2015.
6 min
Einstein wasn’t a lone agent. Here’s why that matters.
Science writer George Musser on the unsung role of friendship in science’s biggest discoveries.
4 min
Quantum Telepathy: Why Science Needs Weird Ideas to Advance
George Musser explains the central role of weirdness in physics, and shatters the dreams of those who hope humans can one day tap into psychic powers.
4 min
Does Quantum Nonlocality Violate Einstein’s Theory of Relativity?
The ability of particles to coordinate their behavior across distances may seem to violate the speed-of-light constant, but is a signal really being sent between them? Or does Einstein still reign?
6 min
When Einstein challenged Bohr, a new universe was born
Scientific advancement is more than a series of experiments: it is often a debate among scientists with fundamentally different points of view. Niels Bohr knew this firsthand thanks to Einstein.
3 min
Multiple Universes Can’t Explain Reality — The Idea That Can Is Even Stranger
The positing of universes parallel to ours, to explain the behavior of quantum mechanics, may seem like the weirdest idea ever. But it might be just the second-weirdest idea ever.
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Spooky Action 101: Is Space as We Know It a Kind of Illusion?
The physics of "nonlocality" made easy.