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In 1935, Albert Einstein, working from Princeton, published the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paper questioning whether quantum mechanics gives a complete description of reality. The paper argued that the theory's probabilistic predictions point to missing hidden variables underneath, and that there should be no spooky action at a distance between separated particles.

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53:09>> 1935 publication of the EPR paradox. >> Yes. This is huge. Um Einstein was already here in America. He had a nice little home in Princeton, New Jersey. And he was worried about quantum mechanics. And so he published the Einstein Podilski Rosen paper that questioned the completeness of quantum mechanics. He said there should be some hidden variables that are underneath that are giving me this weird like probability nonsense. Okay. And there's a hidden variable and there's no spooky action at a distance. >> Uh this was also one of our first viral social clips was related to our episode

53:51on this 1936 formulation of computer uh computability and decidability. >> Yes. Alonzo Church and Alan Turing at Princeton, New Jersey. They introduced the lambda calculus and the Turing machine. Together, these things are vital to theoretical computer science.

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