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Some ideas聽about the quantum聽world appear to suggest there are many versions of you spread out across many parallel universes. Now, two scientists have formulated a proof that attempts to show this is really true.
The proof involves a fundamental聽construct in quantum mechanics called Bell’s theorem.聽This theorem deals with situations where particles interact with each other, become entangled, and then go their separate ways. It is what鈥檚 called a 鈥渘o-go theorem鈥, one designed to show that some assumption about how the world works is not true.
Bell’s…
