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The Nobel Prize for Physics in 2022 made for some pretty big headlines because it acknowledged that the universe is not "locally real." But that phrase doesn't necessarily mean what a lot of people think it does. Here's what it actually means, and why it is worthy of the biggest prize in physics.
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LINKS LINKS LINKS
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Born
hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/11839/what-is-the-source-of-einsteins-quote-spooky-action-at-a-distance
https://galileo-unbound.blog/2020/06/15/the-solvay-debates-einstein-versus-bohr/
hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/7762/why-did-schr%C3%B6dinger-choose-a-cat-for-his-thought-experiment
archive.vn/20121204184041/http://www.tuhh.de/rzt/rzt/it/QM/cat.html#sect5
https://cds.cern.ch/record/405662/files/PhysRev.47.777.pdf -- original EPR paper
livescience.com/16248-speed-light-special-relativity-neutrinos.html
http://ursula.chem.yale.edu/~batista/classes/v572/EPRBOHM.pdf
nature.com/articles/433009a
http://www.nhn.ou.edu/~milton/p3803/chap2.pdf
https://cds.cern.ch/record/111654/files/vol1p195-200_001.pdf
journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.23.880 journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.28.938
arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0508/0508180.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Zeilinger
arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9810080.pdf
researchgate.net/publication/6351927_Quantum_random_number_generator_based_on_photonic_emission_in_semiconductors
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
2:35 - The Nature of Light
4:50 - The Realist Debate
5:53 - Schrödinger's Cat
6:54 - Quantum Entanglement
7:35 - The EPR Paradox
8:48 - Locality and Realism
9:21 - Pilot Wave Theory
10:42 - The Bell Test
15:24 - Quantum Computing
16:06 - Sponsor - Curiosity Stream
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The Nobel Prize for Physics in 2022 made for some pretty big headlines because it acknowledged that the universe is not "locally real." But that phrase doesn't necessarily mean what a lot of people think it does. Here's what it actually means, and why it is worthy of the biggest prize in physics.
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Channel Memberships: youtube.com/channel/UC-2YHgc363EdcusLIBbgxzg/join
T-Shirts & Merch: answerswithjoe.com/store
Check out my 2nd channel, Joe Scott TMI:
youtube.com/channel/UCqi721JsXlf0wq3Z_cNA_Ew
And my podcast channel, Conversations With Joe:
youtube.com/channel/UCJzc7TiJ2nnuyJkUpOZ8RKA
You can listen to my podcast, Conversations With Joe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Spotify 👉 spoti.fi/37iPGzF
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LINKS LINKS LINKS
mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Born
hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/11839/what-is-the-source-of-einsteins-quote-spooky-action-at-a-distance
https://galileo-unbound.blog/2020/06/15/the-solvay-debates-einstein-versus-bohr/
hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/7762/why-did-schr%C3%B6dinger-choose-a-cat-for-his-thought-experiment
archive.vn/20121204184041/http://www.tuhh.de/rzt/rzt/it/QM/cat.html#sect5
https://cds.cern.ch/record/405662/files/PhysRev.47.777.pdf -- original EPR paper
livescience.com/16248-speed-light-special-relativity-neutrinos.html
http://ursula.chem.yale.edu/~batista/classes/v572/EPRBOHM.pdf
nature.com/articles/433009a
http://www.nhn.ou.edu/~milton/p3803/chap2.pdf
https://cds.cern.ch/record/111654/files/vol1p195-200_001.pdf
journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.23.880 journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.28.938
arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0508/0508180.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Zeilinger
arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9810080.pdf
researchgate.net/publication/6351927_Quantum_random_number_generator_based_on_photonic_emission_in_semiconductors
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
2:35 - The Nature of Light
4:50 - The Realist Debate
5:53 - Schrödinger's Cat
6:54 - Quantum Entanglement
7:35 - The EPR Paradox
8:48 - Locality and Realism
9:21 - Pilot Wave Theory
10:42 - The Bell Test
15:24 - Quantum Computing
16:06 - Sponsor - Curiosity Stream
