Nobel physics winner wanted to topple quantum theory he vindicated
Washington (AFP) - American physicist John Clauser won the 2022 Nobel Prize for a groundbreaking experiment vindicating quantum mechanics -- a fundamental theory governing the subatomic world that is today the foundation for an emerging class of ultra-powerful computers. But when he carried out his work in the 1970s, Clauser was actually hoping for the opposite result: to upend the field and prove Albert Einstein had been right to dismiss it, he told AFP in an interview. "The truth is that I strongly hoped that Einstein would win, which would mean that quantum mechanics was giving incorrect pr...