QI XL Full Episode: Quintessential With Holly Walsh, Josh Widdicombe & MORE

QI XL Full Episode: Quintessential | Season Q Episode 2 | With Holly Walsh, Josh Widdicombe & MORE
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[@censusgary]

The mention of fax machines and quantum physics reminds me of all the conversations in the 1980s and 90s where I tried to explain to older people why, after you fax a paper to someone, you still have the paper you sent.

[@RealBradMiller]

How can that be, I've just sent them _the_ paper?! I remember in the mid-nineties my dad deleted the Internet Explorer icon from the desktop by accident and thought we'd never get it back. My young brain thought he had deleted this..internet. Eight years later I was writing my own HTML for my Myspace and Neopets. 😂

[@kirbyhans5261]

Luddites never have the ability to understand anything new.... trumps cult members are a prime example.

[@saber1epee0]

Just like the teleporter, as a kid I used to imagine a scanner/shredder combo, to make the physical-->digital conversion more real. Obviously a terrible idea because I have now dealt with real world printers effing up... And yes this is why I would never accept a trek style teleport .....

[@kmcg6444]

My grandmother's best friend was going deaf, just as she reached adulthood. They did that plane-acrobatics trick to her. Didn't work (surprise). In the '60's her sin had the same condition developing. He had an out patient procedure at a doctor's office. Cured, Marvelous times we live in.

[@andrewwhite1305]

Star Trek's "teleportation" is like Monty Python's Holy Grail, they couldn't afford a bunch of horses, so they used coconuts...lol

[@ritageorge8748]

God how I loved that silly show

[@calvinheslop2585]

it was the same for the end of that film they couldn't think of a payoff for the ending so they had the police arrive to arrest Arthur and his knights to do a "cop out" ending.

[@sfshinz]

‘You’ve never seen anyone less excited” is pretty much a quote you could use about Jack Dee in any situation.

[@christiansebastianlauritse2404]

Surely, if someone else is taking the selfie it's just a photo...?

[@justincronkright5025]

Himfie, Herfie or Themfie maybe?

[@NijiKonohana]

And rather than a 'selfie elf', isn't that person just a photographer? 😂

[@DuncanBentleyOfficial]

God that part made me so angry for some reason hahaha

[@milanakik1539]

Cariad Lloyd being called MORE

[@ANCIENTWARRI0R]

It’s interesting she quoted Oscar Levant since he was on the old time radio show Information Please which is basically the radio version of this show.

[@carenmontgomery2384]

oh my goodness I love this show ! Stephen + Sandi ! I am across the pond and need cheering up...I do wish that I could call people darling like Sandi does... I sometimes use sweetie but it's not the same...

[@malis61]

If you live in Maryland, you can call people "Hon" :)

[@joanneentwistle7653]

I think Anna the Elf should have gotten points for that photobomb!

[@MrBrownnn696]

Lmfao love Alan

[@cannaweallgetalong7168]

"Spring and Autumn" more like late winter and early winter😂😂Again... the " stoned hippy" comment from Holly... "Fax Machine" epic😂😂😂 Josh's plunger tale is clear reasoning why having a pair of rubber/latex gloves around can come in handy😂

[@marycanary86]

i really REALLY hope that the scientists who took the kidney on a rollercoaster had the good sense to buy the photo

[@sbrock6385]

Thank you

[@jeffl.9633]

*S17E02* QI XL: Quintessential Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies, Cariad Lloyd, Holly Walsh, and Josh Widdicombe _November 2, 2019_

[@DragonSamurai182]

Anyone know what that KZbin thing was that Alan was talking about with the laser?

[@timfriday9106]

god i love holly walsh.

[@TarzansMom]

Can someone explain what happened with the selfie at the end?

[@Gorlax23]

The "teleportation" bit makes me think about the application to deep space travel. We could actually communicate w/o waiting hours for a message to bounce back.

[@joje86]

I wish, but sadly, Sandi is promulgating a common misunderstanding of quantum non-locality. I'm not a physicist but basically, when Sandi writes "ALAN" on her half of the banana, and "ALAN" appears on the half that Cariad is holding, she is putting events in the wrong order. More correct would be for Sandi to write "ALAN" on the banana before splitting it, such that one half said "AL" and the other said "AN". Then randomly, without looking, throwing one of the halves to Cariad. Until either Sandi or Cariad looks at their half, we can imagine that the banana is in a quantum superposition. I.e. Cariad is holding both the half that says "AL" and the half that says "AN", and the same is true for Sandi. Just like Schrödinger's Cat being both alive and dead until you actually open the box and interact with the quantum system inside (through observation). However, as soon as either party, let's say Sandi, looks at her half and sees either "AL" or "AN", she instantly knows what the other half says. I.e. the quantum superposition collapses (or we learn which universe we are in, given the ever more popular Everettian many-worlds interpretation of QM) and however far apart Cariad and Sandi are, one of them definitely has the "AL"-half, and one of them definitely has the "AN"-half. However, there is no way for Cariad to know that the superposition has collapsed unless she herself looks at her banana-half or Sandi uses regular subliminal communication to tell her. When Cariad does observe her half, she would know that the superposition had collapsed, but not whether it had collapsed due to her observation or because Sandi had already looked at her half. Meanwhile, Sandi can't decide which half she will observe and thus cannot decide which half Cariad will see, and vice versa. And since interaction/observation causes the superposition to collapse, neither of them can check whether the superposition has collapsed without causing that collapse at the same time. Essentially, observing the banana will always yield the same result to the observer regardless of whether it had already been observed or not. So you see, there is no way, as far as our current understanding tells us, to use quantum non-locality for superluminal communication. Though it is a common trope in sci-fi and the machine doing it is usually called an "Ansible."

[@avysark2034]

​@@joje86wouldn't we also get "killed" every time we teleport?

[@joje86]

@@avysark2034 That's probably more of a metaphysical question than a physical one. Say that we could disassemble a person in one place and reassemble them in another. Are we using the same parts? Or did we only send information describing the configuration of particles, but using other completely different raw materials? If it's the second, what forces you to terminate the original? If the answer is "nothing", and the copy and the original don't share one consciousness, then yes teleportation is essentially just making a copy and killing the original. But say you can reuse some of the actual components of the original, then you suddenly end up in the Ship of Theseus situation. How many parts have to be kept?

[@AtheistIII]

when you are off the coast, you either pretend to swim or you pretend to drown, you can't do both at the same time

[@AidarAmrekulov]

Is that Anna Ptaszynski from No such thing as a fish? She looks so young here

[@mmjackk667]

American TV is not even on the same category as British TV. Professional, top quality entertainment, time after time.

[@ConstantChaos1]

We have production value they have good ideas and clever people Well and also love island

[@avysark2034]

Anything is better than censored bullshit that gets interrupted every 10 min by ads of the same length.

[@ev6558]

This is what you think when you can't afford anything except antenna TV.

[@starlite1284]

The clapping speed record was broken again very recently...it was reported on NPR last week, actually.

[@nickdanger3802]

old folks home

[@ttintagel]

A ride on Space Mountain cured my constipation once.

[@golphcartsos5338]

Hopefully not on the actual ride.... 🤢

[@CONNELL19511216]

Missing eunuchs? Make new ones 😩

[@jeaublow]

I can't believe he thought just whacking a plunger into a toilet would be a good idea. Has he not ever stomped into a mud puddle what did he think was going to happen.

[@professorworm3426]

I don't know if Kidney stones are really worse than childbirth, but I had them young and it was misdiagnosed. I lived with them at their worst for over 6 months until I went to a different doctor that wasn't an idiot. There were times when I thought I was going to die, and a few times I considered helping that along. It was absolute hell. Now they have a modified ultrasound that can break them up inside you. They didn't have that then. They knocked me out, went up the pipes, and pulled them out by hand. At least I got an opiate addiction out of it, being the late 90's and all. Then I quite those, and well... Felt like dying. Considered doing it myself. I always love how on A&E dramas that everyone gets, like, sexy cancer. "Sorry ma'am, but you are dying of sexy death. You have only a few months to live, but you can live longer with a high dose prescription of... Muh penis." Real world? "Yeah, son. Stones made your bollocks explode. Tough luck, that. Wanna get high?" 'Murica. Total overshare, but hopefully it gets a chuckle somewhere. :)

[@JohnDlugosz]

19:00 It's sad to see that her description of quantum teleportation was completely wrong on several different directions. As an explanation of entanglement, it relates a wrong impression that seems to have some legs under it. Doing something to yours doesn't cause the same thing to happen to the other like some voodoo doll; rather, it breaks the entanglement.

[@censusgary]

I can’t believe none of them knew who W.C. Fields was. What’s the world coming to?

[@carenmontgomery2384]

oh my goodness 😳 I do live across the pond and haven't listened to this yet...but agree.

[@chriswright8114]

porn. most of the internet is coming to porn.

[@Brinta3]

@@chriswright8114 Having done extensive research, I can confirm that.

[@bubbercakes528]

@@Brinta3 😂😂😂😂

[@somegirl558]

An end! 😶🔥

[@rick5793]

Just how da bloody hell do they keep score??

[@christineallen600]

A closely held secret ….

[@Maya_Pinion]

They actually don't,but who's going to KNOW?

[@Edward-Not-Elric]

Pretty sure it's just all made up at the end.

[@jimmygoodrich9590]

It's all made up and the points don't matter

[@MultiMolly21]

One photon is something; but I knew exactly when my ex husband died three thousand miles away after not seeing him for forty years.

[@Maya_Pinion]

Whoa.

[@somegirl558]

Hole Walsh is one of the most sympathetic people I have ever seen on tv. She's such a positive persona you don't mind her whatever jokes.. Even if it's on you. Btw:is Einsten to be given as an example in everything science-based, because he lived ages ago compared to what means scientist have to discover now?! Lol: the clapping bit reminds me Ross Noble talking about being an epileptic in a disco club.

[@Dave1507]

Deafness does not mean others can't hear you though, Sandy.

[@cannaweallgetalong7168]

My nephew was born deaf, many deaf people do not speak or verbalize out loud, especially if they can communicate other ways

[@Maya_Pinion]

Teleporting?! NOT cool.remember " the fly"😳

[@Jesus.the.Christ]

Bad example about the banana and quantum mechanics. It cannot transfer information.

[@apaulosmith5653]

It's made of information and the seeds do transfer information

[@Mar032891]

If you neither took the photo of yourself nor allow the person taking it to be in it then it’s not a fucking selfie. Just saying lolol

[@rjwh67220]

Four professional comedians on the panel and none of them knows about W.C. Fields? What has the world come to? It ain’t a fit night out for man nor beast!

[@markloveless1001]

Bless you. Shocking.

[@markloveless1001]

And watch out for that Fatal Glass Of Beer. :0

[@MultiMolly21]

When I learned that scientists don't really undertand "sleep"; I decided that the problem with autism is that sleep overtakes autistic people permanently. The live life as if it is a dream, hence they don't interact with others, as dreaming is a passive state. Then I learned from a specialist that autistic children don't sleep well at all. I think a remedy may be to put them to sleep chemically on a strict regimen so that at least they don't need sleep during the daylight hours. I told her my theory and now they do that.

[@thewanderer6444]

@15:55 Oh Sandy, maybe now that you are retired you will have the time to read the Bible. Right off the bat i can think of at least three other times teleportation was mentioned in the Good Book, and if we expand teleportation from the standard definition of "blinking/folding from on place to another" into all forms of super natural transportation, The Bible records dozens of them. And I think the Ramayana comes in at a distant second...

[@magster6022]

...but none of them was real. I mean, it's myth.

[@ZipplyZane]

It's no fair telling us of three other times without mentioning them. My best guess is that you're counting Enoch, Moses, and Elijah. But I suspect Sandi means teleporting to a different physical place, not disappearing into the afterlife and back.

[@thewanderer6444]

@@ZipplyZane Those three are part of the dozens of other times. I was talking about Yashua the carpenters son, and Saul the man reborn as Paul. The first time is when He Disappeared in front of a crowd that was going to stone him. Second would be when He walked through a wall. The third event happens much latter when Paul and Silas are in jail... But that brings up angels and they kinda just blink in and out all the time so there is that too. Any way. The Son of Joseph was Who He Was and IS.

[@ek-nz]

Not sure if walking through a wall counts - that’s a whole different super power. Anyway, Sandy just reads the cards. You wanna talk to the QI elves if you have a complaint to make.

[@bunkbeds3001]

People arguing about how fictional characters used their superpowers. Religious nutcases like these are literally the original Marvel/DC nerds lmaoooooo