June 2025
The quantum property of nonlocality was confirmed in a new experiment. The acidity of water in an isolated beaker changed when the acidity of the water in a different beaker, located meters away, was altered, according to a paper published in the Journal of Biophysical Chemistry,
Although the quantum world of entanglement and nonlocality – what Einstein called ‘spooky action at a distance’ – has been known to science for a century, it is not yet fully accepted by all mainstream physicists. There are various ways of testing these elusive effects that challenge the physicalist norms.
Professor Dean Radin of the Institute of Noetic Sciences conducted the experiment, which involved two beakers of water placed within the same magnetic field yet separated by varying distances. Acetic acid was added to the ‘local’ beaker in some test runs, and none was added to the ‘remote’ beaker, where the nonlocal effect was hypothesised to take place. A third beaker served as the control with no acetic acid added and its location was outside the magnetic field shared by the other two beakers.
The prediction was that the remote beaker’s pH level would shift toward alkalinity during a specific phase of stimulation of the magnetic field. It happened: The shift was small but statistically significant.
Despite multiple successful replications, Radin suspects that the claims that a nonlocal effect is happening “will likely remain controversial because there are as yet no well accepted theoretical models to explain the effect”.
Radin wrote, “Further independent replications are crucial to advancing our understanding of this potential nonlocal phenomenon. “If it turns out to be a reliable effect, these phenomena may provide new insights into the nature of nonlocal connections.”
Anders Bolling
