Why Did Quantum Entanglement Win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
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Published 2022-10-26
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The Nobel prize in physics is typically awarded to scientists who make sense of nature; those whose discoveries render the universe more comprehensible. But the 2022 Nobel has been awarded to three physicists who revealed that the universe is even stranger than we thought thanks to Quantum Entanglement
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All Comments (21)
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Going against both Einstein and Feynmann, I guess they were super determined
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I just want to say this is the only channel thats getting better with age, thanks for not underestimating your viewers.
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What a time to be alive. I'm 8 mins into this and clueless but just happy at the strides science has made. Incredible.
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Quantum mechanics feels like those math questions you got right as a kid, but when you showed your work, you were going about it wrong.
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As a non-physicist, I feel I won something whenever I can follow your videos all the way to the end.
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It blows my mind that in one hour you have 25,000 views about an obscure problem in quantum physics. I am glad to be in the company of my nerd brothers and sisters. There are more of you than I suspected.
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If you can prove Einstein wrong in any way, you will win the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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Feynmann would never say it was wrong to try, he was saying it was impracticable for that lab at that time; not the same thing. He was not closed minded and well understood the value research of this type.
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Man, you're good. I have a master's in physics, but haven't been working as a physicist for a long, long time. You single-handedly revived my interest, updated me on more recent understanding, and helped me understand certain concepts that I should have understood at the time but didn't.
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I think I'll dress as a Quantum Entangled Particle for Halloween this year and tell everyone I'm causing spooky actions at a distance.
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I admire you a lot for being able to explain complicated things and not be condescending about it. Thank you good sir.
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How Matt can infuse humor into these extremely technical episodes as he did in the last Q&A answer is truly brilliant.
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4:11 I appreciate you using phrases like "dogma" and heretic when referring to how the debate around quantum entanglement developed. It reminds us that even if science holds at its highest ideal that truth is what matters, it's a system acted out by humans, whom can easily lock down thinking that falls outside the accepted narrative
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The episodes where you describe experiments and how conclusions were drawn from them are my favorite. Please do more.
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My education is in business but my love is physics. I admit I do not have the brain to understand the in-depth aspects of all the branches of physics. This channel is awesome in helping me understand on my level. Thank you particularly as I have a really easy time understanding you and staying attentive.
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Great stuff, Matt .... as always. The comment-responses alone were worth the journey!
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Taking my undergraduate physics classes can be just a constant state of confusion with a few moments of satisfaction attained by comprehending a concept that are quickly squashed by a new even more complicated concept to understand. These videos give me a fun, easy to understand dose of physics that is still new and exciting for me.
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Thank you for pointing out that Bell's Inequality and the experiments honored by the Nobel Prize only rule out local hidden variables theories. I'm not saying I'm necessarily advocating for pilot waves or any other non-local theory, but it's been annoying seeing videos discussing this topic completely ignore that they may be disproving locality rather than hidden variables.
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My friend saw this video and he (a fellow Researcher but in the field of Virology) asked me (a physics PhD) why at 5:58 it is alluded that the entangled photon or electron pairs must have an opposite spin. I had to explain the law of conservation of angular momentum to him. This video was excellently made and simplified. Due to the uncharacteristically high interests in this topic from non-physics people, it is however good to mention even this simple aspects we usually take for granted.
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Proper feels for the shout out to Aleksander at the end. Sounds an inspirational person with a love of science, and a lovely tribute.
