Einstein's Quantum Riddle FULL SPECIAL | NOVA | PBS America

Quantum entanglement is poised to revolutionize technology from networks to code breaking-but first we need to know it’s real. Join physicists as they capture light from the universe to prove Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance.”
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[@me_amitsingh]

Respect to the cameraman for capturing the universe himself for this documentary!

[@samirsaha2163]

Beautiful! Knowing now that space does not exist (space is nothing but entangled particles), makes life extraordinarily meaningful. The cosmic oneness that is!

[@rtschump]

It is even better: Spacetime is doomed. See Nima Arkani-Hamed and Donald D. Hoffman ...

[@vulcanlastshelter4571]

Pbs did a couple of great documentaries decades ago and then retelling those stories ever since.

[@juancarlossaavedra6757]

" the most incredible aspect of the Universe is that it is credible " Albert Einstein

[@MrPoornakumar]

Brilliant ! This brings into focus another variable or measure apart from the usual length (L), mass (M) & time (T) that we usually associate with Space (Space-Time). The fourth measure is Frequency that is used in Communications & can't be ignored as a Physical quantity - for the full understanding of Universe. It is the bread & butter of Communications engineers.

[@SAMACAG]

Please watch: Common Sense Einstein's Farewell

[@dkexpat2755]

Thank you America for sharing this with the world, love it.

[@colinleat8309]

Never seen it before. That was wonderful! I learned so much. Thanks for posting! I have a much better understanding of Quantum Computing now.

[@SAMACAG]

Please watch on YoTube: ... EMS Einstein Munchausen Syndrome ...

[@ArtemisiaSayakaRandazzo]

Beautiful!

[@charlesbromberick4247]

Modern physics has moved beyond my reach.

[@gosnooky]

The problem is that we don't know what we don't know. Entanglement may seem counter-intuitive to General Relativity, but we clearly don't have the full picture yet. It could be as simple as the two particles sharing the same position in spacetime, albeit in a higher dimension or plane of reality. We just don't know.

[@laughingoutloud5742]

This blew my mind!! 😲 Thank you for not only explaining but showing the entanglement made the hair stand up on the back of my neck!! So much more to learn and I can't wait to learn more myself!! 👏👏

[@lachezarkrastev7123]

It is wrong - Einstein is right - the entanglement is locally created ...

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

I think Murphy's law should fall into the realm of quantum entanglement. "If it can go wrong It will go wrong and if it shouldn't happen it will happen".

[@silberlinie]

Suppose we were able to make two or more measurements of this electron wave repeatably with infinite precision. Then each of the measurements would show the image in the exact same position. But we can't do that. That's why the position of the measured electron appears in a different place each time. 12:28

[@corvandonge3815]

It’s been said before if you throw a stone in a pool and measure the frequency of the waves at the same but opposite distance then you will find they are entangled. No matter what perfect isolated measurement methods you use at either side.

[@fernandocortes1187]

22:00 Quantum entanglement 22:27 y la Tecnología surgida de la mecánica cuántica 23:05 46:40 Sí hay entanglement 48:00 Bohr was right ...the spooky entanglement happens

[@monkerud2108]

a problem with saying its a cosmic bell tests, if a superluminal signal can travel faster than light.. then the selection of measurement setting and its randomization could be considered local just as well as if the randomness source was in the same room, it doesn't really matter how far away your source of randomness is, just whether you have a distribution of settings that are roughly uniform over the different settings, but even then it cannot be shown at this level of description whether the particles individually have information about the whole system, or whether there is no explanation of this same fact needed, aka whether this is considered non local or local in an absolute sense.

[@axa.axa.]

I'm going to have a pop tart for breakfast tomorrow.

[@solomonmeteku9751]

Is it not possible that the wave from the quasars when observed turns into a particle (quanta) and when again fired /shot to two zorgt location (travels)/ flows as waaien only to turn to observable exact particle when observed/seen at the locations????

[@user-hs3gq7vi7c]

Einstein is always right even when he thought his works are wrong or mistake.

[@ericephemetherson3964]

No, Einstein was not always right. He did not have a definition of time.

[@hillwalker8741]

how they can say he was wrong by incredible follow through of the scientific process is beyond me - journalists just want to make headlines

[@ericephemetherson3964]

@@hillwalker8741 He may have not been wrong but Einstein never came up with a defintion of time. Time to Einstein was a clock which is wrong. You can't associate a clock to time. Time is not a clock and clock is not time. And perhaps you know the definition of time?

[@gktte2574]

@@ericephemetherson3964he never consider time as real, rather a thing to measure a duration

[@CONNELL19511216]

At last I can ignore the spatial separation between my belly and my backbone!

[@dco1019]

I don't quite get the experiment...what are they measuring about the state of the proton? And why is it weird that both are the same at measuring since both exist due to the same Impulse....? If you drop a marble in a uniform liquid can we not conclude that the wave is the same (sort of) at the opposite side of where we measure the wave?

[@terrytwotoes3225]

Are the particals ever together before they are separated and measured because if so then the information is already there and nothing needs to be connecting them

[@zarombiste9158]

Quantum mechanics leaves the gate open for real magic

[@YoutubeWatcher264]

How far is quantum entanglement effect? This can be used for space or extremely distant communication.

[@steinsol2290]

Suspiciously similar to Plato's cave updated for a modern audience.

[@AmyWinehouse.914]

So in theory if two quantum signals were sent to control a light,one to turn it on one to turn off whould the light stay on or off?

[@jimkyriacopoulos598]

Why are the detectors equidistant? They should move one closer to see if the effect is the same? Are they sure 2 photons are released and really it's only one expanding in all directions

[@jackwt7340]

So submatter-1 and submatter-3 exist and can conduct sub-light much faster than the speed of light 💫

[@sonarbangla8711]

Bell isn't what QM is, it is QC function and the Chinese are ahead. In his video QM is never explained, yet Nobel prize is thrown about.

[@bob456fk6]

The next thing you know, they'll say the Earth is not the center of the Universe. Physical models can change. My money is still on Einstein.

[@ericephemetherson3964]

I am very much confused by physicists using the word ''perhaps''. Also, the issue of cause and effect is rather incoherent because the effect can actually be obvious without any cause. Also, the video exaggerates the fact that Einstein married space with time. We have a definition of space but there exists no definition of time and using time in equations is simply an inadequate approach to express time mathematically. For what is time if there is no no definition of time? A clock cannot be applied to math for it is not something that represents time. Quantum entanglement says that two particles communicate involving no time. And again, how can we know that if no definition of time is applied to this spooky action at a distance?

[@alex79suited]

So, even though the light is the same from the quasar it won't affect the test. I would argue that from each quasar the light that's emitted is identical. Why, because it's neutral light sterile if u would. Regardless of gases or material when the light comes off the quasar it's identical to any other quasar. I'm just curious if that would affect the test? Or would this be a benefit? The reason I ask is because the spheres or quasar are identical as they are born from the same material. So I guess what I'm saying is those quasar would naturally select the same filters at the same rate because that's all that can happen all things being equal, so should be the result?

[@monkerud2108]

i think you need to think a bit more about what statistical independence + determinism really means.

[@SAMACAG]

Please watch on YoTube: ... EMS Einstein Munchausen Syndrome ...

[@hulkhogan5605]

Only time would tell what was the extent of his “actual” contribution in formulating the theory of “relativity”. Poincaré who came up with the idea much before , died an early death . Besso and Marcel Grossman mathematicians who are credited with working out the the mathematics of relativity are mentioned no where , and strangely Grossman also died an early death . Similarly Einstein is on record as having rejected quantum mechanics out of hand , famously saying that “God does not play dice”. But then image building is both an art and a science involving a costly ,clockwork like infrastructure , that can turn night into day , and with persistence people come to believe it .

[@Condorman1]

But how do 2 separate photons from two distant quasars become entangled? I have never understood that part.

[@tamirkuhr2516]

The entangled photons are not from The quasars. The quasars are used to select the filters for the entangled photons separately and randomly, and thereby reduce the likelihood, that the selection of filters is what creates the 'illusion' of entanglement.

[@yuhgdhg2768]

Santana Dharma proves 5000+ years ago in vedas but new to western world

[@syedshaukat6628]

Relates somewhere to the verses in Quran, where Allah says "I have made everything in the universe in pairs" nothing is without a pair

[@bojlopez8360]

Is Leonard Leakey Hofstadter, Ph.D the narrator!?

[@cinemaipswich4636]

Entanglement is Measurement. One cannot have one without the other. If you Measure it the waveform collapses. Both happen at the same instant in time. Space and distance have no meaning in this Quanta.

[@kingk2405]

An explanation could be that the universe is only one particle.

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

John Wheeler suggested this to Richard Feynman

[@MsPaulomarco]

Trying to prove something is not real is actually just trying to see if you were right about your first thought. Marco Simoes

[@jimmifoulis]

Magnetic fields on levels of understanding beyond the iq of most there is more than one kind of energy

[@CameronBrtnik]

Does PBS ever make new documentaries?? Lol

[@alexpearson8481]

IDK. I kinda think particle physics is stuck. Higgs was discovered years ago and little progress on anything since. I guess Gravity waves as well. In a lot of ways physicists, or at least their human traits are their own worst enemies. Too much ego in science. In my opinion once their ego is dropped, progress will resume again. Maybe we are waiting for the next Einstein? Maybe then, more for PBS to cover.....? 😅

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

@@alexpearson8481 They want us to think they are getting nowhere with it.

[@finalfandy4766]

.. mm, I think I've seen this video too .. a re-upload?

[@CameronBrtnik]

@@alexpearson8481 I think Edward Witten, described as "a genius among geniuses" may be our Einstein, but I guess he's not as "TV friendly" as NDT or Cox

[@ohah6330]

@@alexpearson8481 thats what i thought too of the physicists too.

[@vxcnzz]

It depends if you think the photon is propagating information as part of the continuum of space-time or that information is traversing like a partial through a frame of reference that is sailing on the fabric of space-time. As we know the frame of reference has no speed limit yet to traverse it does. The continuum of space-time expands faster than the speed of light. The real question is "Is there information that is traversing with the faster than light expansion of the universe?" If so that information is not bound by the speed of light, and that there is some information in the universe that is not subject to time (space-time). If it is not subject to time then physics and the scientific method I fail to see how it is useful in detecting it. When situations like this occurs humans fall back to the Plato shadows on the cave wall limitations. Like the guy who drew on the 2001 space odyssey monolith at the end of the episode.

[@perseoeridano4182]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@cristona.d5265]

so this fuzziness implies that everything we feel and percieve is like an illusion

[@alex79suited]

Yes the universe does act like that exactly spooky action at a distance I believe is how all of this got started.

[@SAMACAG]

Please watch on YoTube: ... EMS Einstein Munchausen Syndrome ...

[@martinkennedy2400]

...this is just a fog of unknowing

[@josephgranger5261]

If I was a tri-ocular being perhaps I would see this differently, you see.

[@rfbftp123]

The greatest question of them all... Does a bear shit in the woods?

[@monkerud2108]

and to be super duper clear, the experiment misunderstands the idea, but it is still not the case that the results are wrong, or unrepresentative or anything like that, the misunderstanding comes in the form that the information necessary to describe one particle has to be information about the whole system, and cannot be a random process ignorant of whats going on with the whole system, which is the case for quantum mechanics and "super-determinism". you just say that either its true without qualification, or its true because the particle already knows what the outcome will be and what the setting will be, and that's fine, but its not something you can do an experiment to figure out, the different forms of description does not make different predictions.

[@alex79suited]

So what he is trying to say is what we see around us is happening at the smallest possible point, but is being projected through our eyes thee observers like a projector on a screen. That's very cool 😎. We're not seeing what's happening were seeing the result. Yeah that's what I believe I was saying when I said Gravity isn't there. Hmm, so when I say to yall we have to separate space from matter you understand. Their separate properties neither effecting the other. Damn I was right.

[@stephencolley5231]

If we are made of atoms and they don't appear until someone observes and measure, so who is observing us bringing us into existence

[@monkerud2108]

missing the point, you cant actually disprove the particles having information about the settings deterministically by any experiment as it isn't a physical theory at all, but an argument about where the information is, its an alternative view of the causality with respect to the same information about the whole system, being computed by the system in the same way. whether it is local or non local is then a matter of taste, and not a matter of experiment, and that's a mathematical fact, no use trying to close a loophole that on its own has no physical consequences.

[@SAMACAG]

Please watch: Common Sense Einstein's Farewell

[@user-kj8lq7mo2s]

There is no such thing as a fully complete working QUANTUM COMPUTER yet. No one has been invited to STOCKHOLM for solving the COLLAPSING WAVE/DECOHERENCE problem. The above is connected to the OBSERVER/MEASUREMENT problem and it takesTIME for an OBSERVATION and or MEASUREMENT to happen. Hence I'm with einstein on this one. First produce a fully functional operating QUANTUM COMPUTER thereby solving the MEASUREMENT AND OBSERVER/DECOHERENCE problem than i will start shifting to BOHR and his COPENHAGEN INTERPRETAION. there are eminent physcists today who are on opposite sides of this debate. Me as a layman I'm still with Einstein on this one.

[@innosanto]

Do they say that Einstein is one of 2,3 guys that founded quantum mechanics ?

[@tonyt73oz]

My issue with quantum entanglement is that you don't see it in physical objects. Like the card trick where they lift one, card and the other moves. The physical maybe defined/constructed by Quantum Mechanics, but Quantum Mechanics is not reflected in the physical.

[@mugojr4766]

What about the computers

[@antonystringfellow5152]

I can tell you this much, the claims being made by some here, right at the beginning, that an entangled quantum particle can have an instant effect on the other, is false and demonstrably so. If this were true, it would be possible to communicate instantly - faster than the speed of light. It isn't and we know it isn't. These people need to rethink what is actually happening when one of a quantum pair is meausured coz one thing's clear, it not affecting the other one.

[@yveanmore]

After the final experiment proved the quantum entanglement theory, I was waiting for the prologue saying that the hippy scientists were right after all! And that God had already answered Einstein's question. But, nope, nothing was said about it.

[@bobbrown8661]

Wait so you're saying I can be in 2 places at once? Dont tell my boss that :)

[@SAMACAG]

Please watch on YoTube: ... EMS Einstein Munchausen Syndrome ...

[@sammoh6746]

Yes, No or Maybe....from one nothing to another nothing with something in between.....

[@alteroccatv]

What’s with the commercial breaks literally every two minutes?!?!??

[@SoundzAlive1]

Einstein was not referring to entanglement when he said "spooky action at a distance" - Ref kzbin.info/www/bejne/ep2ZdayPprV-g6c André in Sydney

[@reneerichard510]

☯

[@henryrooyakkers8510]

So if I understand correctly, was Einstein wrong?

[@HeartFeltGesture]

The Primacy Of Consciousness. Consciousness = E = MC2

[@SAMACAG]

Please watch on YoTube: ... EMS Einstein Munchausen Syndrome ...

[@bangcon]

What if humans do not exist to observe the universe

[@Verlamian]

Appalling. There are several serious and "quantum foundations 101"-illiterate misconceptions in this so I'll just address the most salient one: the common misconception that entanglement implies "spooky action". The latter *is* entailed by the kind of "completion" of QM that Einstein was hoping for (i.e. a "classical model of QM", aka a "hidden variable theory") but it is *not* entailed by QM itself, which [we now know] comes with a perfectly straightforward and unspooky (i.e. [Einstein-]local) reason behind those [once considered] strange and inexplicable correlations. Furthermore, those Bell test loophole-closing experiments featured don't go any way towards ruling out the alternative "completion" theories, as Kaiser incorrectly suggests.

[@ruskiny280]

Raquet

[@alex79suited]

Oh my God it's right, I think the theories are about to be unified. The theory of everything may be about to get turned on its head.

[@SAMACAG]

Please watch on YoTube: ... EMS Einstein Munchausen Syndrome ...

[@manuelfilipe3721]

Light talk million years to arrive to Earth.... , photos don't experience time. The moment they left the quasar is the moment they arrived to Earth,. What's the point to take light from quasars ??

[@alex79suited]

I think we're going to have too.

[@SAMACAG]

Please watch on YoTube: ... EMS Einstein Munchausen Syndrome ...

[@alex79suited]

Actually it all makes perfect sense it's a trickle down effect from the singularity right down to the smallest scale. Because GR isn't quite right atoll and I believe I can help fix this problem. Space doesn't disappear Gravity disappears because it was never there from the beginning. Zero mass squared is the answer to the question. I'm Alex and I'm happy to meet you.

[@hupekyser]

It's disengenious to call Einsteins laws 'common sense'

[@monkerud2108]

i get it, statistical independence is nice, but its a given that you have effective statistical independence anyway, you have a deterministic evolution of the outcomes + measurement settings, after that its a question of whether you deterministically end up doing experiments on quasi random strings of measurement settings and what the outcomes are, the set of outcomes can either conform with quantum mechanics or not, but if they do, it still permits this "super deterministic value map" where the individual particles always know what the outcomes and settings of the experiments are going to be. i don't like the word "superdeterminism", but i hope i have explained in a semi understandable way, why this experiment does not close this loophole, and why it is wrong to call it a loophole at all, it isn't a loophole, its simply a statement that any evolution can be described locally but some evolutions don't conform with our traditional conception of locality.

[@gunther3527]

Why would one build telescopes at a place where weather is unpredictable? What a BS!

[@alexpearson8481]

Bodacious? Really?

[@zakirzak1494]

Old wine in new bottle with same old faces 😂… 10 minutes info stretched to max 😂😂

[@rickymurphy6664]

Too many ads, can't watch 5 minutes without having to skip them. Unwatchable

[@VioletaVarga-lu2ez]

🙋‍♀️💝🫂🫂😘👍🏻👍🏻👊🤗😘🙋‍♀️💝🫂

[@moon__punk]

Is this a science documentary or a tech song video? The f is wrong with how americans make documentaries sound like teenage music project attempts. Would have been an interesting theme otherwise

[@aminam9201]

Yeah, they want to turn phenomenon (side effect of wrong current understanding of space) into building blocks of space! that’s what happens when storytellers impersonate scientists!

[@hillwalker8741]

hologram on a sphere infinitely far away - daaaa how can we not accept that? - not to mention the disappearance of space-time

[@jaspersevenhuijsen7310]

I really do not like the way NOVA pbs is intepreting these scientific facts.. the results of these experiments do not correlate with their conclusions. Take time, throw your concept of it out the door, and lock back at what you did. Thank creation though, our hildren will find out what reality is.

[@richardgalli3026]

Ease up on the number of ads. It’s a disgrace to science to have so many.

[@palmereldrich]

The field matrix is fully sentient. Aka God Edit The wave collapse function upon observation initiates i.e. propells causes happens the potentiality factor; Whether your 'goal' towards a positive fruition is possible- to succeed IOW. Dark energy is simply you. YOUR a specific frequency - the catalyst towards future outcomes depends upon how welll you observe true reality outside your conceptions or MISconceptions. Truth is eternal. Its when you KNOW you are on the correct path. Simple !!

[@dogwithwigwamz.7320]

A nut is controvercial. A Universe is a picture in the mind of God. In an instant the painter may identify all that is contained within. This Universe is an instance embedded.

[@weiyanlee3753]

BAD AUDIO

[@c.s.4273]

I don't like this overdramatization. It is unnecessary and distracting.

[@matthewvantendeloo8909]

what a loud of BS ! the bell experiment doesn't prouve anything.. are these the same guys who made up god ??

[@penduloustesticularis1202]

American documentaries are terrible.

[@user-yv4gg7jb2f]

[@lachezarkrastev7123]

I did not understand how you prove that the entanglement was not locally created ...

[@voodoochile7581]

Far too many ads

[@lachezarkrastev7123]

This is the stupidest quantum BS - you created the entanglement locally, then you send the photons and you can measure them in the two ends of the universe and of course when you measure one, the other is obvious ...

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daguerreotype Quanta revolutionizing technology. 1840.

[@DDDDdJagr]

That god damn hippy part makes me very…… sad?