The speaker personally met John Bell at an American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore in 1989 while finishing his PhD, and had the courage that Bell lacked—to challenge someone promoting a quantum mechanics idea the speaker thought was nonsense.

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Speaker

Jim Al-Khalili

Evidence Quote

[26:28] Well, many years later in in the late 80s, I was called to lift with John Bell. Um, this was at a American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore in the 1989. I was finishing my PhD...I got on the lift with John Bell and unlike John Bell he didn't have the courage to confront the great Neil spore I had the courage because I agreed with John Bell

Source

The mind-bending reality of quantum mechanics - with Jim Al KhaliliThe Royal Institution
Created: 8/11/2026, 5:36:17 AM

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