The Dalai Lama Connection To This Year's Physics Nobel

Anton Zeilinger, an Austrian quantum physicist is among the three who share the Nobel Prize for Physics this year. The other two are Alain Aspect and John Clauser.

The prize is for 'for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science.'

Anton Zeilinger has been a pioneer in the field of Quantum Teleportation. He succeeded in quantum teleporting.

The paper ‘Experimental Quantum Teleportation’ published in Nature in the December of 1997 by Zeilinger is at the foundation of all these.

In 2016 there was indeed a successful quantum teleportation achieved. Highlighting the role of Zeilinger, Swarajya wrote:

Swarajya also pointed out the inherent paradox in this achievement:

Anton Zeilinger's interactions with Dalai Lama provides a good framework for the dialogue of science and religion. There is no arrogance on the part of both the scientist and the monk.

The monk does not display any arrogance of spirituality. The scientist also does not take a confrontational attitude. Through Dalai Lama, Buddhism has made strides in its dialogue with science and Anton Zeilinger has been quite a significant instrument in that.

In 2005 one of the petitions read:

But despite such petty-minded obstructions the Zeilinger-Dalai Lama dialogues continued.