Advancing Quantum Experiments to Test Reality Beyond Bell’s Theorem. This project aims to develop and perform quantum experiments that will impose strong constraints on the nature of reality – even st

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Advancing Quantum Experiments to Test Reality Beyond Bell’s Theorem. This project aims to develop and perform quantum experiments that will impose strong constraints on the nature of reality – even stronger than the constraints imposed by the Bell experiments recognised by the 2022 physics Nobel Prize. Expected outcomes include probing the nature of observation itself, for increasingly sophisticated systems acting as observers, and laying the theoretical groundwork for future tests that can rule out whole classes of theories about the world and our experience of it. Some of the benefits that will likely accrue are: pushing the development of photonic technology in novel directions; and creating knowledge of relevance to humanity’s future in a world where artificial intelligences can be accepted as observers.. Scheme: Discovery Projects. Field: 5108 - Quantum Physics. Lead: Prof Howard Wiseman