Quantum mechanics is one of the best-tested theories in science, and it's one o

f the few where physicists get to do experiments proving that Einstein was wrong
.
That's what a team at Griffith University and the University of Tokyo in Japan
did this week, showing that a weird phenomenon
in which the measurement of a par
ticle actually affects its location
is real.
Back in the 1920s and 1930s, Albert Einstein said he couldn't support this idea
, which he called "spooky action at a distance," in which a particle can be in t
wo places at once and it's not until one measures the state of that particle tha
t it takes a definite position, seemingly with no signal transmitted to it and a
t a speed faster than light. When the particle takes its definite position, phys
icists refer to this as its wave function collapsing.