Let’s play a coin-toss game: toss three coins, and try to have them all land differently. This is a seemingly impossible task, because no matter how rigged a coin is, it can only have two sides. There simply aren’t enough possibilities for all three tosses to land differently.
Yet, with the power of quantum physics, such an impossible feat can be achieved statistically: three coin tosses can all land differently. And the reward for winning? 2022’s Nobel Prize in Physics, which was awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger on 2022-10-04.