Did Einstein Crack the Biggest Problem in Physics…and Not Know It?

Published 2024-08-02
Join Brian Greene and a team of researchers testing Google's quantum computer to glean new insights about quantum gravity from their impressive–if controversial–results.

Participants:
Maria Spiropúlu
Joseph Lykken
Daniel Jafferis

Moderator:
Brian Greene

00:00 - Introduction
01:36 - Participant Introductions
03:24 - The Einstein Papers
10:40 - Can Quantum Entanglement Be Used to Transfer Information?
14:30 - The Second Einstein Paper: The Quantum Properties Of Blackholes
16:28 - Wormholes and Quantum Science, ER = EPR
22:30 - A Wormhole in a Quantum Computer?
29:25 - Quantum Computer Experimentation
36:27 - Contextualizing Quantum Computation and its Future
42:09 - Credits

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All Comments (21)
  • @fultzjap
    Brian Greene is about as good as it gets at physics science communicator. I love that he's operating right at the boundary between proven theory and speculation, and he's always very honest with himself and his audience about where each topic lies on that spectrum. It must be pretty hard to be authoritative, open minded, and not talk down to people all at once when you're that smart, because most of his peers fail miserably at one of the three.
  • @VaBellaBeautz
    I saw Einstein in the title and i knew what time it was 😎 shout out to Brian.
  • @SA-er1op
    Would love a longer, in depth explanation of ER=EPR, such a hard concept that 40mins with multiple quests does not quite do the job. Still, thanks for all that you are doing for science, appreciate it!
  • @SandipChitale
    The handwavy thing about the entangled particles at a large distance is the idea that the state was truly not one or the other is never explained. What happens after the measurement is what gets talked about, which we already know intuitively, even for a classical system of say a right and left gloves. Sure, it may be difficult to explain it in English, but that is what needs to be explained, including whatever mechanisms or experiments tell us that that is the case. It may be that it is a statistical measurement and distribution of outcomes over a large sample set. Otherwise, it sounds like "just trust me".
  • @coffeetop1131
    Whoops; they almost spilled the beans at 8:56. Thankfully Brian interrupted and steered to discussion to a safe space.
  • These things are being talked on for decades. The task is to build a consistent theory, that works. Einstein's ER paper was to try to explain particles using space-time, that didn't exactly work. But QFT wasn't mature back then. Any re-attempt must examine all the possibilities, not just confirm their own bias.
  • Round table world science festival videos are the best! Nothing makes me regret getting an accounting degree instead of science more than these shows 🤣
  • @TSeries502
    Its because time doesnt exist, only now exists so it doesnt matter how far apart the entangled particles are, as far as they are concerned they are still together in the now. The distance is irrelevant
  • I am always impressed that when physicists get together they always have the elephant in the room (Einstein). Perhaps instead of calling it AI we should call it AE since he started or enhanced much of what we are still working on nearly 100 years later. The more I understand Einstein, the more I think in today's world he would have been considered a savant of some level since he often ignored family and friends in the pursuit of an idea and he saw things almost as visualizations when doing the calculations or asking the questions.
  • @edgenovese
    B We mortals will have to count on these brilliant people to bring the future to us. Ha ha ha... the truth is, you lost me in the first two sentences of the introduction alone! I guess I'll just go in the studio and write music, but I do love hearing these discussions. Thank God we have people like this to break the boundaries....Bravo
  • @user-if1ly5sn5f
    Listen, i like that guy that literally just says sharing, he gets it. So using relativity we can regenerate potentials. Think simulation but connected to what is real combined with information like pictures or scanned data and the quantum computer can reconstruct using relativity. Connect the quantum computer to some sort of ai to interpret and help guide/share so the ai could use the quantum computer to have free will. I think our brain does something similar where the reflections are shared and we pay attention by listening and it’s like sharing a portion with ourselves with the knowledge, experience, everything. It’s like we couldn’t be us without infinite connected to the relative.
  • Good video. Greene is awesome, as always, such a grounded relatable speaker.
  • @ovidiulupu5575
    If every particle has a tiny black hole inside, enthengeled particles are în fact enthengeled black holes, gravity became enthengeled statistical macroscopic structures. Gravitațional constant îs some statistical mediation of enthengeled structures over univers.
  • @pompousprick6143
    Sometimes, the answer isn't hidden; it's just waiting for us to change the way we look at things.
  • basically before the measurement is like trying to ask what a second looked like before I was alive from my perspective... just because quantum mechanics exists doesnt actually mean a particle is in a multitude of states.The fact that our top experts are trying to figure out how we dont know something when we arent measuring it is the epitome of the end of civilization
  • @thedellow2093
    Daniel Jafferis’ voice is like a blend of Christopher Walken and Seth Rogan lol
  • @LaboriousCretin
    14:00 Could be manifold coupling. But other things need to be tested. A tunable metamaterial for slits and the orbital energy levels part of the tunable range. Add a rainbow for extra gradient mapping. The universe doesn't scramble every time a person blinks. lol. The smoothness of the universe, constraints on quantum foam. UV,IR limits. 20:18 only if they came from a single pure state. Not to get into, they are many body mixed states parts. Black holes are finite systems. 22:05 the center mass of a black hole is a future event. The only wormhole is to a future time from the time distortion factors, and that's if something could withstand it all. 26:52 incorrect assumption. Put time into it. The funnel shows time distortion factors. The center event able to slide further forward in time and gives rise to the virtual infinites. A black hole core is not infinitely dense, or it would such the universe in infinitely fast. lol finite system. 32:14 Shared waveforms across entangled systems. The cryptography part or information density of how many waveforms can exist on how many q-bit or photo optic can you have without decohering. 36:58 Your making a whole set of assumptions and avoidance bias blindness. 38:59 The more you know about a system, the more predictive power you can have. Black holes are finite systems in 1 timeline in a finite universe. Look into tunable metamaterial for slits. Also, hybrid quantum computing and optical computing. Make tested chips with mixes. To see if you can get more out of a set of systems or such.
  • @helicalactual
    Well articulated!! “Sharing” information! Thank you!