An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

A series of experiments carried out in the early 1980s by Alain Aspect and his colleagues that showed the violation of
→ Bell’s inequality. Accordingly, quantum phenomena cannot be described by the → hidden variable theories, contrarily to the → EPR paradox interpretation.

See also: Alain Aspect (1947-); → experiment. Aspect et al., 1982, Physical Review Letters, Vol. 49, No. 25 and references therein.