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Why Did Quantum Entanglement Win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
Season 8
Episode 31
The Nobel prize in physics is typically awarded to scientists who make sense of nature; those whose discoveries render the universe more comprehensible. But the 2022 Nobel has been awarded to three physicists who revealed that the universe is even stranger than we thought thanks to Quantum Entanglement.
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