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Columnist and Physics Why John Stewart Bell has been haunting quantum mechanics for decades The “Bell test” was devised in the 1960s to uncover what’s going on in the quantum world, but it ...

Quantum is huge. Because quantum computing allows us to step beyond the current limitations of digital systems, it paves the way for a new era of computing machines with previously unthinkable power.