Uploaded February 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Quantum physics is weird as hell, but this entanglement experiment using stars is simply beautiful.

-Links for the Curious-

Cosmic Bell Test: Measurement Settings from Milky Way Stars - journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.060401

The original article from Quanta which prompted this episode - quantamagazine.org/20170207-bell-test-quantum-loophole

"On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox" by J.S. Bell, 1964, which demonstrates mathematically that the switching-discrete-values thing gives different results than the superposition thing - https://cds.cern.ch/record/111654/files/vol1p195-200_001.pdf

Feynman's Messenger Lecture on probability & uncertainty - youtube.com/watch?v=x5RQ3QF9GGI

Feynman's Sir Douglas Robb lecture on quantum electrodynamics - youtube.com/watch?v=eLQ2atfqk2c&list=PL8590A6E18255B3F4 (I promise the audio gets better about a quarter of the way thru.)

Sixty Symbols on quantum superposition - youtube.com/watch?v=KRRnMS1sm6Y&t=8s