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Space is not squeezed - Berkeley Physicists Demonstrate - C C - Jan 30, 2015
http://scitechdaily.com/berkeley-physicists-demonstrate-space-not-squeezed/
EXCERPT: Ever since Einstein proposed his special theory of relativity in 1905, physics and cosmology have been based on the assumption that space looks the same in all directions – that it’s not squeezed in one direction relative to another. A new experiment by UC Berkeley physicists used partially entangled atoms — identical to the qubits in a quantum computer — to demonstrate more precisely than ever before that this is true, to one part in a billion billion...