Karol Jalochowski | REALITY LOST - BONUS TWO (DAG KASZLIKOWSKI KILLS SCHRÖDINGER'S CAT) @jalochowski | Uploaded September 2013 | Updated October 2024, 11 hours ago.
A bonus scene from REALITY LOST, a different documentary about quantum mechanics by Karol Jalochowski, the movie produced by Centre for Quantum Technologies at National University of Singapore. It used to be the opening scene of the whole movie.
Dag Kaszlikowski explains a famous thought experiment by Erwin Schrödinger in which gedanken cat remains half-dead and half-alive, superpositioned, so to say. Our bold proposition is to kill the poor cat to death - and use another metaphor, which we provide, by the way.
The Schrödinger's cat thought experiment is mapped onto a gangsta movie context.
Played by Dag Kaszlikowski and Pawel Kurzynski, uncompromising physicists from the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore (quantumlah.org).
One more thing - the building we shot the scene by, the Queenstown Cinema and Bowling Alley built in the late 70's, has been just demolished. Singapore is changing more than rapidly.
SYNOPSIS
When 20th century begun, a major shift took place in science. Scientists started making experiments with an unprecedented precision. Fiddle with single particles, atoms, and electrons.
And they got bewildered. Small objects seemed to have a sort of fuzzy properties. What's more - the very act of observing them, of measuring them, seemed to bring them to live, excavate them from a vague domain.
Equations of quantum mechanics were beautiful. They did generate astonishingly correct answers for mind boggling questions about the exotic micro world. But there was a price to pay. Objective reality had to go.
Was is regained?
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SCIENTISTS ON SCREEN
Dagomir Kaszlikowski
Physicist, theorist, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
Artur Ekert
Physicist, theorist, director of Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore; Professor of Quantum Physics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Valerio Scarani
Physicist, theorist, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
Christian Kurtsiefer
Physicist, experimentalist, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
Charles Bennett
Physicist, information theorist and IBM Fellow at IBM Research.
Gilles Brassard
Physicist, theorist at Université de Montréal
Stephanie Wehner
Physicist, theorist, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
Vlatko Vedral
Physicist, theorist, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, and University of Oxford
WRITTEN AND FILMED BY
Karol Jalochowski
HOSTED BY
Dagomir Kaszlikowski
SUPPORTED BY
Artur Ekert
DANCE CHOREOGRAPHED AND PERFORMED BY
Strangeweather Movement Group
Segments adapted from the performance "The Spooky Action at a Distance"
Faye Lim
Bernice Lee
Christina Chan Jia Ai
Daniel Sahagun Sanchez - a physicists too
COLLAPSE SEQUENCE WRITTEN BY
Dagomir Kaszlikowski
COLLAPSE SEQUENCE FILMED BY
Dagomir Kaszlikowski
Karol Jalochowski
COLLAPSE SEQUENCE PLAYED BY
Dagomir Kaszlikowski
Pawel Kurzynski
POTTERY SEQUENCES FILMED AT
Thow Kwang Industry
ARTWORKS BY
Steven Low Thia Kwang
Ng Yang Ce
MUSIC
Jessica Lurie Ensemble
"Baba Yaga's Seven League Boots", "Shop of Wild Dreams", "Dreamsville", "Hunger Artist Theme", "The 43rd Day", "Sleepwalker's Travel Guide", "Pinjur", "Grinch", "Z.I.P.A.", "For A Thousand Kisses (instrumental version)", "I Don't Care If I Don't Care (instrumental version)"
ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Dagomir Kaszlikowski
SOUND CO-RECORDED BY
Momo Lu Yin
PHOTOGRAPHS
European Laboratory for Particle Physics
Leo Baeck Institute
Krishnamurti Foundation Trust
MANY THANKS TO
Ewa, Kajtek, and Jedrek Jalochowski
Asanthi Shiyara Mendis
Akihito Soeda
Jenny Hogan
AND MANY THANKS FOR HOSPITALITY TO
Tan Teck Yoke and Yulianti Tan of Thow Kwang Industry Ltd.
Steven Low Thia Kwang
Ng Yang Ce
THANKS FOR ENCOURAGEMENT TO
Polityka Weekly
MOVIE GRANT BY
Centre for Quantum Techologies
National University of Singapore
FILMED IN SINGAPORE, 2013
MOVIE BLOG: quantum-dreams.com
A bonus scene from REALITY LOST, a different documentary about quantum mechanics by Karol Jalochowski, the movie produced by Centre for Quantum Technologies at National University of Singapore. It used to be the opening scene of the whole movie.
Dag Kaszlikowski explains a famous thought experiment by Erwin Schrödinger in which gedanken cat remains half-dead and half-alive, superpositioned, so to say. Our bold proposition is to kill the poor cat to death - and use another metaphor, which we provide, by the way.
The Schrödinger's cat thought experiment is mapped onto a gangsta movie context.
Played by Dag Kaszlikowski and Pawel Kurzynski, uncompromising physicists from the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore (quantumlah.org).
One more thing - the building we shot the scene by, the Queenstown Cinema and Bowling Alley built in the late 70's, has been just demolished. Singapore is changing more than rapidly.
SYNOPSIS
When 20th century begun, a major shift took place in science. Scientists started making experiments with an unprecedented precision. Fiddle with single particles, atoms, and electrons.
And they got bewildered. Small objects seemed to have a sort of fuzzy properties. What's more - the very act of observing them, of measuring them, seemed to bring them to live, excavate them from a vague domain.
Equations of quantum mechanics were beautiful. They did generate astonishingly correct answers for mind boggling questions about the exotic micro world. But there was a price to pay. Objective reality had to go.
Was is regained?
---------------------------------------------
SCIENTISTS ON SCREEN
Dagomir Kaszlikowski
Physicist, theorist, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
Artur Ekert
Physicist, theorist, director of Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore; Professor of Quantum Physics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Valerio Scarani
Physicist, theorist, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
Christian Kurtsiefer
Physicist, experimentalist, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
Charles Bennett
Physicist, information theorist and IBM Fellow at IBM Research.
Gilles Brassard
Physicist, theorist at Université de Montréal
Stephanie Wehner
Physicist, theorist, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
Vlatko Vedral
Physicist, theorist, Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, and University of Oxford
WRITTEN AND FILMED BY
Karol Jalochowski
HOSTED BY
Dagomir Kaszlikowski
SUPPORTED BY
Artur Ekert
DANCE CHOREOGRAPHED AND PERFORMED BY
Strangeweather Movement Group
Segments adapted from the performance "The Spooky Action at a Distance"
Faye Lim
Bernice Lee
Christina Chan Jia Ai
Daniel Sahagun Sanchez - a physicists too
COLLAPSE SEQUENCE WRITTEN BY
Dagomir Kaszlikowski
COLLAPSE SEQUENCE FILMED BY
Dagomir Kaszlikowski
Karol Jalochowski
COLLAPSE SEQUENCE PLAYED BY
Dagomir Kaszlikowski
Pawel Kurzynski
POTTERY SEQUENCES FILMED AT
Thow Kwang Industry
ARTWORKS BY
Steven Low Thia Kwang
Ng Yang Ce
MUSIC
Jessica Lurie Ensemble
"Baba Yaga's Seven League Boots", "Shop of Wild Dreams", "Dreamsville", "Hunger Artist Theme", "The 43rd Day", "Sleepwalker's Travel Guide", "Pinjur", "Grinch", "Z.I.P.A.", "For A Thousand Kisses (instrumental version)", "I Don't Care If I Don't Care (instrumental version)"
ADDITIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Dagomir Kaszlikowski
SOUND CO-RECORDED BY
Momo Lu Yin
PHOTOGRAPHS
European Laboratory for Particle Physics
Leo Baeck Institute
Krishnamurti Foundation Trust
MANY THANKS TO
Ewa, Kajtek, and Jedrek Jalochowski
Asanthi Shiyara Mendis
Akihito Soeda
Jenny Hogan
AND MANY THANKS FOR HOSPITALITY TO
Tan Teck Yoke and Yulianti Tan of Thow Kwang Industry Ltd.
Steven Low Thia Kwang
Ng Yang Ce
THANKS FOR ENCOURAGEMENT TO
Polityka Weekly
MOVIE GRANT BY
Centre for Quantum Techologies
National University of Singapore
FILMED IN SINGAPORE, 2013
MOVIE BLOG: quantum-dreams.com
