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TV Documentary teaser, by PBS NOVA, S46, E2, premiers Wed, Jan 9 2019 [Buy DVD] [TV]
You Tube video from Wochit News based on this Science News article. The end of the video is incorrect. Our experiment used photons from Milky Way stars to choose measurement settings in a Bell test with entangled particles generated here on Earth. We are actually trying to ensure that the stellar photons are as un-entangled as possible! Also, the stars are not separated by 600 light years from each other. In fact, the nearest of the two stars in each run of our experiment was about 600 light years away from Earth.
Our proposed experiment to use cosmic sources like quasars to set the detectors in a Bell inequality test is mentioned (directly or obliquely) in the context of an amazing experiment by researchers at Delft University of Technology, which closed two of the three major loopholes simultaneously for the first time.
An excellent introductory video series about quantum mechanics and free will. Links to some articles on our cosmic Bell proposal.

“Using GRBs For Cosmology” by Andrew Friedman,Sky & Telescope, Vol. 112, No. 8, p35, 2006 [PDF] (with Robert Naeye article below)
“Gamma Ray Bursts: New Cosmic Rulers?” by Robert Irion atScience, Vol. 306, Issue 5694, pp. 215, Oct 8 2004 [PDF]
Our group developed an improved Astronomical Random Number Generator (ARNG) in an effort led by Jason Gallichio and Calvin Leung at Harvey Mudd College. By observing the color of light from distant cosmic sources such as extragalactic quasars, the ARNG can be used to make ``random'' measurement choices in foundational tests of quantum theory, including test of Bell's inequality, delayed choice interferometry tests, and delayed choice quantum eraser experiments, all in the spirit of John Wheeler's cosmic delayed choice thought experiments.
Our cosmic Bell project in the context of the Big Bell test, a fun, global experiment (run, in part, by our collaborators in Vienna) that used human volunteers to make ``random'' measurement choices in a large test of Bell's inequality.

by Will Bowen, La Jolla Light, Dec 20 2017 [PDF]





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