Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect

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“A moving arrow is at rest.” This is obviously a nonsensical contradiction. But Zeno, a Greek philosopher famous for his metaphysical trolling, devised a paradox whose conclusion is just this. Here’s how it goes: if you look at an arrow flying through the air at any instantaneous snapshot in time, the arrow doesn’t travel any distance. If time is composed of an infinite number of these snapshots, and the arrow doesn’t move in any of them, then the arrow is at rest during the entirety of its flight. The moving arrow is at rest.
In fact, if we’re talking about a quantum arrow, there may be a way to freeze its motion simply by looking at it, through the aptly named quantum Zeno effect. The quantum Zeno effect predicts that certain quantum events - like the electrons moving between atomic energy levels, or the decay of atomic nuclei, can be frozen through the simple act of observation. I’m going to tell you about some very real experiments that claim to have demonstrated this phenomenon. But first, let’s see if the quantum Zeno effect can save us from being shot by a quantum arrow.
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@bierrollerful
@bierrollerful 3 роки тому
Kids: "Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" Parents: "Stop quantum freezing the car!!"
@glypheye
@glypheye 3 роки тому
😂. You need two kids, one in you left ear and one in your right, perennially asking “are we there yet?” You never left......you never arrive. Just the endless journey, purely observed.
@jeshii
@jeshii 3 роки тому
Underrated comment
@TheRABIDdude
@TheRABIDdude 3 роки тому
A surprisingly clever joke. Nice job!
@andrejandu7181
@andrejandu7181 3 роки тому
haha top joke
@joejohnson3582
@joejohnson3582 3 роки тому
Ooooh so that explains the collapsed brain function while setting off on a family vacation....
@jacquelinejohns9838
@jacquelinejohns9838 3 роки тому
Did you just describe Zeno's paradoxical ideas as 'trolling'? It all makes sense now.
@alkestos
@alkestos 3 роки тому
All the so called great philosophical minds of the past have been nothing but trolls but it went so far over the heads of normal people back then they thought it was somehow profound. You just solved philosophy. Like you know, one does...
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885
@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 Рік тому
We present a measure of quantum coherence by employing the concept of noncommutativity of operators in quantum mechanics. We analyse the behaviour of this noncommutative coherence and underline its similarities and differences with the conventional measures of quantum coherence. The maximally noncommutative coherent states turn out to be far removed from the conventionally considered maximally coherent states. We argue that the efficiency of the quantum phase estimation algorithm, an important rung in the Shor factorisation algorithm, is potentially related to the measure of noncommutative coherence." Matt O'Dowd just needs to dig a bit deeper - he's Anti-Trolling.
@spawnsen823
@spawnsen823 Рік тому
@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 was about to say that.
@winonafrog
@winonafrog 7 місяців тому
*metaphysical trolling !
@hiccup3.14
@hiccup3.14 3 роки тому
"If someone shoots a quantum arrow towards you, don't blink" One of my favourite quotes
@JonathanScarlet
@JonathanScarlet 2 роки тому
The best part is the freeze-frame of a Weeping Angel right after it.
@hiccup3.14
@hiccup3.14 2 роки тому
@@JonathanScarlet A watt?
@JonathanScarlet
@JonathanScarlet 2 роки тому
@@hiccup3.14 Re-watch at around 4:59. Blink (or not) and you'll miss it.
@hiccup3.14
@hiccup3.14 2 роки тому
@@JonathanScarlet ahhh ok, Thankyou very much
@liliwheeler2204
@liliwheeler2204 Рік тому
As soon as he started talking about looking at the arrow to stop it from hitting you, I figured a "don't blink" reference was inevitable was (unlike being hit by a quantum arrow)
@skyebluee
@skyebluee 3 роки тому
"We do a little metaphysical trolling" -Zeno
@BarteG44
@BarteG44 2 роки тому
I am in immense pain
@ayehavgunne
@ayehavgunne 3 роки тому
I used to be a spacetime adventurer like you but then I took a quantum arrow to the knee. Because I blinked.
@innocentbystander3317
@innocentbystander3317 3 роки тому
The quantum arrow never existed until you observed it anyway, so technically, not only did you do this to yourself, but you also confirmed that this is how you wanted things to be by blinking. Kids these days... Well, at least you're still alive.
@user-ut3ni6bu7b
@user-ut3ni6bu7b 3 роки тому
no lollygagging
@anmolmehrotra923
@anmolmehrotra923 3 роки тому
Ever thought about the second entangled arrow with it? It may have tunneled and hit another adventurer of space-time. And you know what he didn't even blinked! But you only think about yourself 🙂
@arnabmukhopadhyay7078
@arnabmukhopadhyay7078 3 роки тому
Lemme guess someone stole your quantum roll?
@innocentbystander3317
@innocentbystander3317 3 роки тому
@@anmolmehrotra923 I too used to be a pan-dimensional being, until I took a quantum arrow to the knee...
@seionne85
@seionne85 3 роки тому
You got me there after "don't blink" lol
@LuisDiaz-qg3eg
@LuisDiaz-qg3eg 3 роки тому
He wouldn't if you hadn't blinked
@MultiverseMediaSpace
@MultiverseMediaSpace 3 роки тому
Doctor?
@jeremyleyland1047
@jeremyleyland1047 3 роки тому
And the angles wept
@TheHolm
@TheHolm 3 роки тому
I frikkin hate those!!!
@StephenHodgson
@StephenHodgson 3 роки тому
I laughed for about 5 min straight. Part of why I love this channel
@misakilive6010
@misakilive6010 3 роки тому
Spacetime is the best channel on this whole site. This series is amazing, and you're a great host, Matt! If I ever get around to getting higher education, I know what I'm studying!
@slevinchannel7589
@slevinchannel7589 2 роки тому
Try also: -Veritasium. -Its ok to be smart. -Neil Red. -Sci Man Dan. -Sci Show. -Practical Engineering. -Hbomberguy!!
@ChaineYTXF
@ChaineYTXF 2 роки тому
if you do end up studying physics, fair bit of warning: you're in for a treat.
@vauchomarx6733
@vauchomarx6733 2 роки тому
@@slevinchannel7589 HBomberguy is great! A very different genre though…
@slevinchannel7589
@slevinchannel7589 2 роки тому
@@vauchomarx6733 Yep
@vauchomarx6733
@vauchomarx6733 2 роки тому
PBS Spacetime is cool, but imo, there are even greater physics channels out there. Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky (ukposts.info) has some beautifully made animations, which gave me a much better intuition for understanding that sort of stuff, I heavily recommend checking them out!
@PatricioHondagneuRoig
@PatricioHondagneuRoig 3 роки тому
0:20 "Metaphysical trolling". I love that way of putting it.
@keith8554
@keith8554 3 роки тому
Famously
@pauldacus4590
@pauldacus4590 3 роки тому
4:59 Never let a Dr Who reference go to waste!
@hjk3927
@hjk3927 3 роки тому
Weeping Angel from the episode "Blink" ;)
@benedictul
@benedictul 3 роки тому
I was expecting the angels to make an appearance, wasn't disappointed.
@INGIE32
@INGIE32 3 роки тому
Can anyone explain the reference?
@benedictul
@benedictul 3 роки тому
@Franky Padilla baby don't hurt me
@MrOlecomte
@MrOlecomte 3 роки тому
@@INGIE32 It refers to an iconic Doctor Who episodes called "Blink", where the antagonists (aka Weeping Angels) can only move when they're unobserved. So to survive them the rule is simple: keep your eyes open and don't blink.
@ThierryTiramisu
@ThierryTiramisu 3 роки тому
0:20 metaphysical trolling. Quite badass, Zeno!
@blackmamba1261
@blackmamba1261 3 роки тому
That's the first time I've heard it referred to like that, and I love it.
@Cythil
@Cythil 3 роки тому
@@blackmamba1261 Well. From what I understand is a pretty good description. A lot of philosophers seem to have been annoyed at Zeno. Even some contemporary ones to his own age.
@jorgepeterbarton
@jorgepeterbarton 3 роки тому
The effect of "not sure if really dumb, or just proved the whole universe wrong" type stuff.
@Cythil
@Cythil 3 роки тому
He is one of my favourite philosophers. I am not sure what that says about me... >_>
@Cythil
@Cythil 3 роки тому
@Baka Mitai Oh, he is a fun one to. Has a fascinating idea what makes for a good home. ;)
@aluxt
@aluxt 3 роки тому
If the Quantum Zeno Effect plays a role in birds' ability to see magnetic fields, then does that mean (according to the Many-Worlds interpretation) there would be many, many worlds full of very, very lost birds?
@slevinchannel7589
@slevinchannel7589 2 роки тому
WOW: Have you seen the newest video of FTFE (Fight the Flat Earth)? It's amazing.
@djelalhassan7631
@djelalhassan7631 2 роки тому
The Many-Worlds interpretation and Zeno is pure none sense there is only One-World and the Motion-Time is continues you cannot divide them.
@elongatedmusk3132
@elongatedmusk3132 Рік тому
@@slevinchannel7589 I'm seriously 🤔
@slevinchannel7589
@slevinchannel7589 Рік тому
@@elongatedmusk3132 FTFe is a Channel? Was that not clear? And so is Holy Koolaid, just so you know.
@elongatedmusk3132
@elongatedmusk3132 Рік тому
@@slevinchannel7589 I put curious or something & that emoji got hit. Anyways thnx I'll check em out
@ericevans7741
@ericevans7741 3 роки тому
3:34 bless you, also this helped me understand what wave function collapse was better than anything else i've seen.
@ScionVyse
@ScionVyse 3 роки тому
"Quantum Ouch" is my new favourite term.
3 роки тому
but is it like wave or there is comes in packets of plank-ouches?
@kennarajora6532
@kennarajora6532 3 роки тому
I'd love to see that term included in movie technobabble.
@TaohRihze
@TaohRihze 3 роки тому
Don't Blink!
@medexamtoolsdotcom
@medexamtoolsdotcom 3 роки тому
Followed by the sequel, Quantum Abort.
@gbail9566
@gbail9566 3 роки тому
If you pay attention you hear it coming after the Quantum Twang.
@flensdude
@flensdude 3 роки тому
This reminds me of a poem attributed to Odin, chief god of all the Viking gods: _A fifth spell, I know―_ _if I see shot with ill intent_ _an arrow, travelling in a fight;_ _it's incapable of flying too quickly_ _for me to stop it in its path_ _as long as I keep my eyes on it._ (Odin, Hávamál. Rough translation.) _Þat kank fimta,_ _ef sék af fári skotinn_ _flęin í folki vaða,_ _flýgra svá stint,_ _at stǫðvigak,_ _ef hann sjónum of sék_ (Odin, Hávamál. Original poem.)
@linorow2835
@linorow2835 3 роки тому
Underated! Great poem!
@Greywander87
@Greywander87 3 роки тому
Interesting, I can actually recognize some words from the poem as probably meaning certain things, even though I don't speak Old Norse. Ef = if, sék = see (seek), skotinn = shoot, flýgra = fly, at stǫðvigak = to stop, sjónum = keep (sojourn). How accurate is this? Given that there are fewer words in the original poem, I'm assuming that each word carries more info that is normally spread across multiple English words. English did descend from this language, though it's gone through a lot of changes since then.
@flensdude
@flensdude 3 роки тому
@@Greywander87 *On the relationship between Old Norse and English* Parts of the English language descends directly from Old Norse, but in fact all of the similarities in this poem are due to the fact that Old English and Old Norse were sister languages. That is, English and Old Norse have a common ancestral language (Proto-Germanic) from which these similar words ultimately are respectively derived from. Some of the words you recognise are correct. _ef_ is indeed related to English _if_ , although _ef_ was pronounced with a /v/ sound, i.e. /ev/. However _sék_ is a contraction of _sé ek_ , literally "see I" . Same with _stǫðvigak_ (< _stǫðviga ek_ ) and _kank_ (< _kann ek_ ), which literally mean "stop-not-I (it)" and "can-I". With the modern English word order and grammar you would instead say "I see", "I won't stop (it)" and "I know" in this context, but in Old Norse you had more liberty with regards to the word order and when to use pronouns like _it_ . Furthermore _sjónum_ means "with (my) sight" in this context, and is the dative form of the noun _sjón_ , meaning "sight" or "eyes". Just think about the past tense form _seen_ of the verb _to see_ , and you will see the relationship. Also note that _j_ in Old Norse is pronounced like /y/ in modern English. The English /j/ sound that you find in English words like _jet_ , _giant_ and _age_ is non-existent in Old Norse. Also, some of the verbs carry the short-lived negation ending _-a_ (sometimes _-at_ or simply _-t_ ), like in _flýgra_ < _flýgr-_*_a_* (literally "(it) flies-not"), same in _stǫðvigak_ < _stǫðvig-_*_a_*_ ek_ . (The latter expression here is incidentally a monster of a contraction _stǫðvigak_ < _stǫðva-ek-a-ek_ , quite literally "stop-I-not-I (it)". _stǫðva_ is thus the verb part of the word and means "to make stood", i.e. "to stop".) Other similar words are: _þat_ - "that" ( _þ_ is pronounced like _th_ ) _af_ - "of" (the Old Norse _of_ you see in the poem is actually related to English _ov-_ in _over_ ) _í_ - "in" ( _í_ was pronounced nasally in Old Norse, meaning it must have previously had an /n/ sound following it that was nasalised) _folki_ (dative of _folk_ ) - "folk/army" _svá_ - "so"
@flensdude
@flensdude 3 роки тому
@@Greywander87 *On the word count* As you probably can tell from my previous comment, Old Norse could make use of contractions that make it seem like there are fewer words. They also had a grammatical case structure that Old English also had, but that modern English has lost. (You can tell from the endings _-i_ in _fári_ and _folki_ , and _-um_ in _sjónum_ .) This means that in Old Norse you could sometimes convey meaning without using prepositions by simply using specific grammatical cases, hence the word count would go down: _Gefk hónum vápn_ ("I am giving a weapon to him"); Old Norse uses three words here compared to seven in English. I also took the liberty to add words that aren't present in the original for clarification in my translation, since the Old Norse poem is composed in a special poetic language in which you have to conserve the amount of syllables in each line, thus the word count goes down. This is because the poem otherwise loses its rhythm in Old Norse. To keep the rhythm in English that has a higher word count, more words are naturally required.
@growthisfreedomunitedearth7584
@growthisfreedomunitedearth7584 3 роки тому
I was thinking the same thing. The old ones understood quantum mechanix. I'm convinced celtic knots represent quantum systems.
@vladdangel
@vladdangel 2 роки тому
"observe" is such a cop out. If I'm blindfolded and my way of "observing" a baseball is by swinging a bat then yeah, some how when I observe a ball it travels away from me. This is the strange nature of observing baseballs in quantum mechanics.
@doomerbloomer6160
@doomerbloomer6160 3 місяці тому
observation is just another word for interaction
@mannyourfriend
@mannyourfriend 3 роки тому
This video was surprisingly understandable! Well done
@ayehavgunne
@ayehavgunne 3 роки тому
“So now you know why a quantum watched pot doesn’t boil. And it’s because you did watch. Spacetime.”
@secularmonk5176
@secularmonk5176 3 роки тому
First time I've seen an episode end without an elegant sentence ending in ... spacetime.
@user-ut3ni6bu7b
@user-ut3ni6bu7b 3 роки тому
​ @Len Arends The sentence has 2 meanings: - You know it doesn't boil because you watched it - you know why it happened because you watched space time I think it's pretty elegant
@DobromirManchev
@DobromirManchev 3 роки тому
This was a cheat ending.
@ayehavgunne
@ayehavgunne 3 роки тому
Roadhouse
@PrivateSi
@PrivateSi 3 роки тому
Spacetime loves sci-woo.... It's another Modern Mystery Cult media outlet.... It's named after 'MAGIC SPACE' for God''s sake, as an atheist... This quantises space and time and explains general relativity at the end, tying my coherent, balanced Standard Model fix together into a well integrated universe TOE model outline... It explains everything is semi-classical terms... it's basically a load of old balls that can collide, vibrate in unison as an electric subspace alternating current and flow in unison as a spinning, strong, magnetic direct current circuit... Simplicity beats complexity. There is much evidence for it. -- Subspace Charge Field: +ve charge cells (quanta, +1) held together by free-flowing -ve charge. Matter-energy field conserves momentum -- Matter-Energy: Matter is focused energy.. Energy is mobile matter.. Momentum conserves velocity.. Force changes velocity and/or direction -- Positron/Up Quark/Graviton (p+): Out of place, free cell warps the field and sends out AC field cell vibration 'blip' spheres at C + 6 spin loops -- Electron/Down Quark (e-): Hole left behind warps the field and sends out AC field cell vibration 'blip' spheres of opposite phase at C + 6 spin loops -- Neutrino/Dark Matter (n+-): Only exactly opposite phase p+ and e- annihilate (ie. pairs created together), else a neutrino forms -- Nucleons: Proton: P = pep.. Neutron: N = Pe = pep,e.. Beta-: e.. Beta+: B = p,n = p,pe.. Alpha: A = PNPN = PeP,PeP = (pep,e,pep)(pep,e,pep) -- Heavier Fermions: Larger holes and chunks of subspace field rapidly disintegrate to p+s, e-s, n+-s and/or annihilate to regular = empty field -- Electrostatic Force: Recoiling blip spheres propagate. Opposite direction + and - blips form a vibrating AC bond, same sign=phase repel -- Instant-Off Long Force: AC (longitudinally blipping) subspace 'flux tube' as thin as 1 cell wide. Each cell and its -ve charge move in contrary motion -- Spin: e-s and p+s pull in the 12 surrounding cells, or -ve charge that pulls cells, that then bounce out, forming 6 loops as a torus. Spins up/down -- Strong Force: Spin loops merge and form flowing DC circuits between e-s and p+s -- Mass: Sum of the lengths of all strong force bonds + near electric field. Neutrino has compact strong force bonds, Protons' are long as 2 p+s repel -- Magnetism: Some spin-aligned atoms' p+s and e-s' strong bonds join in a shorter straight path. Energy conservation results in external force circuits -- Weak Force: Geometric structural charge balance instability. Possibly neutrino hits statistically tipping the balance -- Photon: Charged particle(s) moving up and down (transmitter, atomic electron) form a radiating transverse wave blip pattern -- Double Slit: Laser light / particle centre's preceding, extended subspace distortion diffracts, interferes, forming wave guides observation destroys -- Dark Gravity: p+ traps 1 quantum of -ve charge so void cell size/gap grows (and matter's shrinks?) forming a macro -ve charge gradient -- Bang Expansion: Loss of -ve charge to the multiverse?.. Bang ejector velocity petered out, magnified in time by outward momentum conservation -- Gravity Wave: Longitudinal wave where the entire field in a large region is effected in unison for a duration -- Big Ping: A dark crystal universe collisions' intense gravity wave forms e- & p+ pairs from outside in at C. Many annihilate or form neutrinos -- Big Bang: Ping wave collides centrally? Field blast forms matter + a large hole (then Big/Dark Refill)? Fast -ve charge loss? Neutrino crystal exploded? -- Black Hole: Absorbs matter and energy. Neutrino crystal (with a core returning to empty field)? Large hole in the field traps anything entering? -- Frame Dragging: Entire sphere of subspace cells rotating around a point in unison -- Time: Cell to cell blips take a constant time. Gravity shrinks cells so light slows but locally measures C as circuits lengthen in space & time, adding mass -- Makes more sense than making up bosons to carry force and mass, quarks that don't solve the anti-matter and dark matter problem, anti-neutrinos, loads of fundamental fields, extra spatial and temporal dimensions etc, that ultimately don't tie relativity and quantum mechanics together properly or well... They should at least be honest and call their 'spatial dimensions' geometric/field dimensions or something.. Magic Space is not my cup of tea.
@andrewgotlost
@andrewgotlost 3 роки тому
I cant wait to watch this video 4 or 5 more times until I understand it.
@TheMarcscod
@TheMarcscod 3 роки тому
You don't understand quantum mechanics, you get used to it xD
@mvmlego1212
@mvmlego1212 3 роки тому
TBH, I thought this was much more understandable than plenty of their other videos, at least from the last couple of years. I don't think I'll ever truly understand the ones about the holographic principle.
@victoroneil9735
@victoroneil9735 3 роки тому
You actually can't understand it until you stop watching it. It's called the Quantum Dunno Effect.
@silbermund4253
@silbermund4253 3 роки тому
Victor O'Neil 😂
@AndreVanKammen
@AndreVanKammen 3 роки тому
@@victoroneil9735 At the exact moment you think you get the answer, your brain wil enter a superposition. Once you try to access the answer it will collapse and your back at the start.
@mjassims
@mjassims 3 роки тому
“Observing a quantum object; observing an image of a quantum object. These are the same” - Tower of Quantum Trials
@philteacheseverything5466
@philteacheseverything5466 2 роки тому
Great video man. Makes perfect sense. Ya’ll keep it up! I love every video ya’ll make!
@Jeppelelle
@Jeppelelle 3 роки тому
Will there be a video about the new potential discovery at CERN about the decay of beauty quarks? Would be awesome 👍
@diegofranco65
@diegofranco65 3 роки тому
That would be nice!
@dankthorgaming5972
@dankthorgaming5972 3 роки тому
I wasn’t going ‘thats what i was about to say’.your topic sounded cool :)
@xyzpdq1122
@xyzpdq1122 3 роки тому
Probably something sooner but less imaginative on the Fermilab channel. Plus that has Don Lincoln’s great dad humor.
@Jeppelelle
@Jeppelelle 3 роки тому
@Questa Semplice Animazione weird comment, your comment is like correcting someone that says soccer instead of fotball even though they both are correct. So i choose to use the nicer name for that quark...
@Jeppelelle
@Jeppelelle 3 роки тому
@Questa Semplice Animazione its very common to use beauty & no one mistakes that for charm...also stop your fixation with claiming that correct names are incorrect, soccer is obviously not wrong. Anyways, this is the most pointless argument i’ve seen in a good while, i think you are a troll that just argues for the sake of arguing, which i’m not interested in since that belongs in kindergarten
@itarry4
@itarry4 3 роки тому
Isn't Zeno the same dude who also said that it should be impossible to ever catch a moving tortoise. Using a race between Achilles and the tortoise to illustrate the point.
@carlosgaspar8447
@carlosgaspar8447 3 роки тому
and the paradox does not hold for quantum particles because they (and time) are not infinitesimal.
@drdca8263
@drdca8263 3 роки тому
Yes, he had a number of similar paradoxes all leading to the conclusion that motion is impossible / is an illusion
@itarry4
@itarry4 3 роки тому
@@drdca8263 yhea I thought it was him. Actually I leant about it in a Terry Pratchett novel where he joins 2 of the paradoxes together by having a philosopher called Xeno having a bet with another about the arrow hitting a Tortoise. So it crossed the Arrow one with the Achilles one, I then looked it up to find out what it really was.
@nihad6727
@nihad6727 3 роки тому
​@@carlosgaspar8447 Zeno: Then you should have no trouble measuring them rather easily and giving me their actual size?
@carlosgaspar8447
@carlosgaspar8447 2 роки тому
@@nihad6727 www.mathportal.org/calculators/sequences-calculators/geometric-sequences-calculator.php
@robertstrawser1426
@robertstrawser1426 2 роки тому
Love the weeping angel reference. Just had a creepy thought. If the weeping angels were creatures governed by quantum mechanics that means they should also be able to quantum tunnel into your room at night, while you’re sleeping, even if you have the door locked. Pleasant dreams everyone… ;)
@dougmcguire2187
@dougmcguire2187 Рік тому
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. You’re great dude. You explain this very well. I love you videos. You need a second channel reading bedtime stories. Your voice puts my son, and myself straight to sleep. You’re not boring. It’s just the tone. I’ve been fighting for 3 hours tonight with my son getting him to sleep. 7 minutes with your videos and he was snoring. You’re the best dude.
@Felishamois
@Felishamois 3 роки тому
I'm pretty sure this channel is getting into hypnotism guys, and I'm all for it
@PrivateSi
@PrivateSi 3 роки тому
Yes, it is a NWO Scientific Dictatorship, Science Worship & Praise brainwashing channel populated by a load of dumbed-down, intentionally confused geek-trendies wanting more uber power to Nazti elites to burn our money on useless super-junk... You sheeple would be funny if you weren't such useful idiots!
@Felishamois
@Felishamois 3 роки тому
@@PrivateSi Well that was fun. I hope you make the distinction between the scientific method, argument of authority, and scientific theories because otherwise what you said didn't make any sense.
@PrivateSi
@PrivateSi 3 роки тому
​ @Oeumuepo Stéphanois .. 'Science' with a capital S... The Scientific Method is the best testing method.. Systems Engineering is the best discipline for system engineering.. Arguments from authority and arguments from UBER-SCIENCE that only a handful really understand are functionally pretty much identical... I like to fight the confusion merchants out there, of the zealous, extremist variety... -- Scitards and Creatards that don't have a clue but pick an extremist side to praise and worship... This is fun, it's a semi-classical TOE outline that explains shed loads on half a side of A4 paper. It sticks to the evidence and the simple premise, with total conservation of energy. Time is left until last but ties general relativity at QM together nicely. -- Bottom-up Thought Experiment... Constraints: As few base forces and particles as possible to form a coherent, integrated 3D multi/universe model -- Subspace Charge Field: +ve charge cells (quanta, +1) held together by free-flowing -ve charge. Matter-energy field conserves momentum -- Matter-Energy: Matter is focused energy.. Energy is mobile matter.. Velocity is position change in time.. Force changes velocity and/or direction -- Positron/Up Quark/Graviton (p+): Out of place, free cell warps the field and sends out field cell vibration 'blip' spheres at C + 6 spin loops -- Electron/Down Quark (e-): Hole left behind warps the field and sends out field cell vibration 'blip' spheres at C + 6 spin loops -- Bion/Electron Neutrino/Dark Matter (n+-): Only exactly opposite phase p+ and e- annihilate (ie. pairs created together), else a Bion is formed -- Nucleons: Proton (P) = pep, Neutron (N) = Pe, Beta- = e, Beta+ (B) = p(n) = p(pe), Alpha (A) = PNPN = (PeP)(PeP) = (pep)(e)(pep)(pep)(e)(pep) -- Heavier Fermions: Larger holes and chunks of subspace field rapidly disintegrate to p+s, e-s, n+-s and/or annihilate to regular = empty field -- Electrostatic Force: Recoiling repulsive blip spheres propagate. Same phase blips repel, opposite form an attracting AC wave guide, recoil adds push -- Spin: e-s and p+s pull in the 12 surrounding cells, or -ve charge that pulls the cells, that then bounce out, forming 6 loops as a torus. Spins up/down -- Strong Force: Spin loops merge and form DC (flowing) circuits between e-s and p+s -- Mass: Length x number of strong force bonds + near electric field. Neutral bion has compact strong force circuits , Protons' are long as 2 p+s repel -- Magnetism: Some spin-aligned atoms' p+s and e-s' strong bonds join in a shorter straight path. Energy conservation results in external force circuits -- Long Instant Off Force: AC (longitudinally blipping) subspace 'flux tube' as thin as 1 cell wide. Each cell and its -ve charge move in contrary motion -- Weak Force: Geometric structural charge balance instability. Possibly statistical hits by bions tipping the balance -- Photon/Light: e- (or p+) moving alternately up and down (ie. transmitter or e- moving from a neutral ground state to charged higher level and back) -- Double Slit: Laser light / particle centre's preceding, extended subspace distortion diffracts, interferes, forming wave guides observation destroys -- Dark Gravity: p+ traps 1 quantum of -ve charge so void cell size/gap grows (and matter's shrinks?) forming a macro -ve charge gradient -- Bang Expansion: Loss of -ve charge to the multiverse?.. Bang ejector velocity petered out, magnified in time by outward momentum conservation -- Gravity Wave: Longitudinal wave where the entire field in a large region is effected in unison for a duration -- Big Ping: A dark crystal universe collisions's intense gravity wave forms e- & p+ pairs from outside in at C. Many annihilate or form bions -- Big Bang: Ping wave collides centrally / -ve charge lost to the multiverse / blasted cells and -ve charge form much matter and leave a truly empty hole? -- Black Hole: Absorbs matter and energy. Bion crystal? Truly empty hole in the field that rips matter to pieces, turning it into subspace field until full? -- Frame Dragging: Entire sphere of subspace cells rotating around a point in unison -- Time: Cell to cell blips take a constant time so light slows locally with gravity as cells shrink but always measures C locally as subspace circuits slow too-- -- Makes more sense than making up bosons to carry force and mass, quarks that don't solve the anti-matter and dark matter problem, anti-neutrinos, loads of fundamental fields, extra spatial and temporal dimensions etc, that ultimately don't tie relativity and quantum mechanics together properly or well... They should at least be honest and call their 'spatial dimensions' geometric/field dimensions or something.. Magic Space is not my cup of tea.
@gibbsm
@gibbsm 2 роки тому
@@Felishamois nothing this person will make any sense. they just cut/copy/paste mumbo jumbo, they said it themselves above.
@BassNinja
@BassNinja 3 роки тому
4:58 almost got me PBS
@wenchinatrenchcoat8459
@wenchinatrenchcoat8459 3 роки тому
Thank you PBS Space Time Team. I am challenged yet again and i love it!
@kennarajora6532
@kennarajora6532 3 роки тому
11:00, Is that dude laughing at the Schrodinger cat in the timeline where it dies?
@kokopelli314
@kokopelli314 3 роки тому
It would be more accurate and IMO helpful to replace the words "observation" and "measurement" with "interaction".
@juzoli
@juzoli 3 роки тому
I do it routinely, as I always see people being confused about it... Every observation is an interaction, but not every interaction is observation. And wave function collapse happens at interaction, not at observation.
@christopherbrent3759
@christopherbrent3759 3 роки тому
You'll never sound mystifying with an attitude like that!
@davidabdollahi7906
@davidabdollahi7906 3 роки тому
You guys been living under a rock or what. The whole concept of quantum physics is based on the changes in the states of sub atomic particles caused by "Human Consciousness". Quantum physicists try to have observations with zero interaction. This act of observation without interaction is what makes the results "Mystical" or otherwise it simply would be "scientifical".
@MaakaSakuranbo
@MaakaSakuranbo 3 роки тому
Yeah, really not helping the impression people have that "observation" means "human looking at it" with those visuals either
@juzoli
@juzoli 3 роки тому
@@davidabdollahi7906 That’s the exact misconception which comes from misusing these words. You misunderstood the whole concept. The whole point is that observation without interaction is IMPOSSIBLE, so we can NEVER observe a quantum particle without changing it. Consciousness is not even mentioned by physicists, it is coming from people who don’t understand.
@acetate909
@acetate909 3 роки тому
@3:45, so that guy can observe quantum arrows and ancient aliens? What's a badass.
@horus6153
@horus6153 3 роки тому
Ahaha...that's definitely Giorgio A. Tsoukalos from Ancient Aliens. Nice to see him branching out.
@amaliaantonopoulou2644
@amaliaantonopoulou2644 3 роки тому
The amazing thing about this channel is that every time I start watching a video, I'm sure that I don't have many possibilities to understand a lot, but at the end of the video I think that I have understood everything!!! Haha!Magic
@slevinchannel7589
@slevinchannel7589 2 роки тому
Try also: -Veritasium. -Its ok to be smart. -Neil Red. -Sci Man Dan. -Sci Show. -Practical Engineering. -Hbomberguy!!
@user-xv5wb6to7g
@user-xv5wb6to7g 3 роки тому
Thank you for the photosensitivity warning, it’s deeply appreciated!
@slevinchannel7589
@slevinchannel7589 2 роки тому
Try also: -Veritasium. -Its ok to be smart. -Neil Red. -Sci Man Dan. -Sci Show. -Practical Engineering. -Hbomberguy!!
@nekomatafuyu
@nekomatafuyu 3 роки тому
I see. So video buffering is a quantum effect ;)
@jorgepeterbarton
@jorgepeterbarton 3 роки тому
Or inversely the matrix is buffering with quantum effects
@techhelp1941
@techhelp1941 3 роки тому
Ha ha ha..... very well said. We can never see "true live cast".
@thomasrichardson2905
@thomasrichardson2905 3 роки тому
I know I will probably never get lucky enough to have my comment read, but here’s to hoping!!!! Matt, you and everyone else at SpaceTime are amazing. This show is my favorite part of the week because me and my daughter get to sit down and watch this show together, and now it has inspired her to pursue this field when she grows up. Keep up the good work and keep inspiring! Thanks.
@jacquesstoop2587
@jacquesstoop2587 3 роки тому
Hope you guys one day get round to making an episode on high frequency relic gravitational waves and measuring them using the Li Baker effect. Would be awesome.
@jeffneptune2922
@jeffneptune2922 3 роки тому
This guy gets more info into a 15 minute clip than anyone I know. If you are a scientifically informed laymen, budding philosopher of science or "junior" scientist with a B.S. in chemistry, biology or physics, PBS Space Time is "the Bomb"!
@SkatersHeaven
@SkatersHeaven 3 роки тому
i had to come watch this so my ramen would cook.
@Ghost-hs6qq
@Ghost-hs6qq 3 роки тому
Lmao
@PMA65537
@PMA65537 3 роки тому
Well, perhaps the laws of physics cease to exist on your stove. -- Vinny Gambini
@En_theo
@En_theo 3 роки тому
It's not really trolling. The Zeno paradox may have been "solved" mathematically but physically speaking, we still have quantum fields and still don't know what time is.
@SP-ny1fk
@SP-ny1fk 3 роки тому
"And we can take this huge universe and put it inside a very tiny head: you fold it" - Rudolfo Llinas
@layneburton9172
@layneburton9172 3 роки тому
You did us dirty at the end there, playing on our psyches and making us think we're mad for predicting the video ending.
@darismelabishai1027
@darismelabishai1027 3 роки тому
Fantastic production, as always... despite the missed opportunity of taking a quantum arrow to the knee 12:01
@Thejericko17
@Thejericko17 3 роки тому
Thank you for the Weeping Angel 🙌🏾
@michaelupdike-bz6rg
@michaelupdike-bz6rg 3 роки тому
I was reading "How To Teach Quantum Physics To Your Dog" and never understood this. This makes everything click.
@taufiqutomo
@taufiqutomo 3 роки тому
@JohnR2319881222 Imagine hundreds of years later, our descendants might use that quote to describe how mysterious quantum mechanics is to their ancestors, just to highlight how much humanity's understanding of physics have advanced.
@zerk317
@zerk317 3 роки тому
Wow. This video was great! Love this series!
@RedNomster
@RedNomster 3 роки тому
Is it possible that, using wave particle duality theory, a particle is riding a wave in space time caused by the constant vibration of dark energy, as well as the wave the particle itself is creating when bouncing on said vibration? Like, imagine putting your hand on a table (spacetime), and dropping a marble (particle) with the other hand onto the same table. Your hand on the table would detect that marble via vibration, yet the marble is distant. Now, drop a trillion marbles (particles) on the table (spacetime). Your hand on the table will begin vibrating as well - I'm curious to ask if this vibration is what we consider dark energy. If you did the same experiment on a malleable surface other than a table, like a trampoline, and put your free hand on the bottom of the trampoline, the effect would be the same. Now, flip over said trampoline so that the trillion marbles are bouncing against the bottom in an asymmetric yet constant rhythm. Placing your hand on top of the trampoline will detect the exact same vibration as before. Drop 1 marble on the top side of the trampoline, and it will be riding the wave of the vibration, endlessly, regardless of its initial bounce. As soon as you stretch out the trampoline horizontally (apply external energy), that malleable surface is no longer malleable, and the top marble is no longer affected by the bottom marbles at all; the vibration stops, and the top marble is just a particle. It's in my interest to know if, perhaps, observation is simply the act of flattening the wave a particle is riding by introducing energy. And that the energy used to observe or fire intrusive photons at an electron is enough to flatten the wave and stop its quantum travel. "But what do you mean flattening the wave? Doesn't that mean you're stopping dark energy in this case?" Not quite. The dark energy is still there. Imagine standing in the water at a lake on a windy day. The waves will push and pull you. If there's no wind (if you make an observation) it flattens the waves, so you float freely, possibly in a direction if you have the energy to do so. Dark energy, in this case, isn't something we have yet to discover - but the perpetual phenomenon that occurs when particles constantly vibrate space and time, fueled mostly by massive releases of energy, such as quasars, or the big bang. Thanks for reading, if you did
@achronicblunt
@achronicblunt 3 роки тому
I've always wondered if the inability to measure location and momentum at the same time is that location requires a definite point in space to be measured, while velocity requires measuring two points, and the time that passed between them, and so it is inherently impossible to measure both at once when you are working with objects that exist at the quantum level, which are so small that they can't even be said to occupy more than one location at a time, perhaps, at all. In a sense, you are measuring either location once (i.e. location), or you are measuring location twice (i.e. velocity). Am I missing something? How could velocity even conceivably be measured with a particle only occupying a single location? Without linear distance there is nothing for time to measure. This would propose a solution to Zeno's paradox as well: Particles MUST occupy definite locations in space. At any given moment, their location can be measured. So what if particles do not exist IN a location in space? What if particles ARE a location in space? Then there is no need to ask where they are between two spaces. They "are" not. Because the energy didn't travel between two separate locations: it was in one location, then it was in the next. Zeno's arrow doesn't travel. It teleports. Paradox resolved.
@djelalhassan7631
@djelalhassan7631 2 роки тому
Yes true, the Motion-Time is continues you cannot divide them
@PrajwalNayak-so5uv
@PrajwalNayak-so5uv Рік тому
Sometimes I also have these kind of illogical doubts which seems to be logical, just like Paradoxes of Zeno, but I used to not think much about it as no one gives it importance saying that it is illogical and has an obvious answer. But now Zeno gave me MOTIVATION to think more and have these kind of confusing doubts, or to be precise, Paradoxes
@hawsroy
@hawsroy 3 роки тому
this is wonderfully interesting. however, i am interested: what may happen if we look to speed up the collapse of the wave function/what use may it have? love the videos :)
@Melgaer
@Melgaer 3 роки тому
The Dr Who reference and how well it was executed distracted me so much that I had to pause the video to write this before coming back to the content. Bravo.
@ravenlord4
@ravenlord4 3 роки тому
I always thought that "instantaneous velocity" was just an theoretical artifact of calculus, seeing how in the real world even the smallest distance over time component is subjected to the limits of planck length and planck time.
@Rich-hy2ey
@Rich-hy2ey 3 роки тому
Funny there is no impact on the object by the start-stop action of the Planck length travel.
@slevinchannel7589
@slevinchannel7589 2 роки тому
@Parker Sullins Try also: -Veritasium. -Its ok to be smart. -Neil Red. -Sci Man Dan. -Sci Show. -Practical Engineering. -Hbomberguy!!
@djelalhassan7631
@djelalhassan7631 2 роки тому
@Parker Sullins Yes true, the Motion-Time is continues you cannot divide them.
@wormalism
@wormalism Рік тому
I thought Planck length was the smallest size a particle could be, but that particle is supposed to be able to move through infinitely divisible space?
@ravenlord4
@ravenlord4 Рік тому
@@wormalism The planck length covers both size and distance
@chrisX1722
@chrisX1722 3 роки тому
Thanks. Now I know how the weeping angels work!
@Jop_pop
@Jop_pop 3 роки тому
As a mathematician, 1:08 is what a physicist would tell you. Very few mathematicians view time as made up of infinitesimal chunks - we'd talk about limits in our explanation. Each individual point in time has no duration, and thus no sense of velocity, and movement only appears in the relationships between nearby points in time (i.e. limiting behavior)
@iuribachnivsky3022
@iuribachnivsky3022 3 роки тому
Those physics 'staches are gorgeous!!!
@fireburner81
@fireburner81 3 роки тому
Got it. Weeping Angels are susceptible to the quantum xeno effect.
@Vasharan
@Vasharan 3 роки тому
They call it 'quantum locking' in the show, but same diff.
@tubehellcat
@tubehellcat 3 роки тому
I was just about to say the same thing 😁👍
@jorgepeterbarton
@jorgepeterbarton 3 роки тому
@@Vasharan i must quantum lock my house because i can never remember whether i did, concluding i both did and didnt, but to a reasonable probability like 95%
@chingamfong
@chingamfong 3 роки тому
When the researchers classify constantly shining laser on an atom as "observation" Ballentine: "Wait that's illegal"
@slevinchannel7589
@slevinchannel7589 2 роки тому
Try also: -Veritasium. -Its ok to be smart. -Neil Red. -Sci Man Dan. -Sci Show. -Practical Engineering. -Hbomberguy!!
@rigeus
@rigeus 2 роки тому
This just made one of the best Dr. Who episodes ever, even better! Thanks! Not blinking, not blinking, not bl
@NovaRuner
@NovaRuner 2 роки тому
I think Zeno had another paradox to his name. I might be off on some details but the one I have heard of goes like this: I try to walk from point A to point B, it takes me some interval of time to go half way, it takes half of that interval to reach the 3 quarter point, and it takes an infinite set of smaller and smaller intervals to reach an infinite set of smaller and smaller fractions of the remaining distance and so I can never actually reach point B Awesome videos keep up the good work and maybe make the above paradox into quantum weirdness too.
@jamespiar
@jamespiar 5 місяців тому
Wow, I actually took a course in mathematics on Wondrium, formerly the great courses, by Professor Bruce Edwards where he explained this version of Zeno's paradox . You are absolutely correct. 🏆
@ldeadpirate9432
@ldeadpirate9432 3 роки тому
So, iNeed to come up with something that can observe or decohere my entire physical self on a quantum lvl in order to achieve immortality thru stasis?
@Pyxis10
@Pyxis10 3 роки тому
Whats the difference between that and being dead? You aren't aware either way.
@ldeadpirate9432
@ldeadpirate9432 3 роки тому
@@Pyxis10 Because iWould be able to use a simple timing system to stop observing my quantum processes at a certain time or after a certain amount of time. Or if it ever stopped working or had power shut off, iWould hope to return to the mobility of the unobserved, XD
@reldahr01
@reldahr01 3 роки тому
They proved this in "The Outer Wilds". Alternately you can take a picture of the arrow and then blink as much as you want.
@slevinchannel7589
@slevinchannel7589 2 роки тому
Try also: -Veritasium. -Its ok to be smart. -Neil Red. -Sci Man Dan. -Sci Show. -Practical Engineering. -Hbomberguy!!
@michaelthompson6624
@michaelthompson6624 3 роки тому
Soo, super cool. Quantum thinking, distinct from real quantum stuff, whatever that turns out to be, could be super useful. I love these pbs space-time pulsations.
@BWYT452
@BWYT452 3 роки тому
It's taken several years but he's finally talking about the biggest problem with Quantum Mechanics: "observation", "detection", and "measuring". These terms are flawed in QM. People speak and act like "simply observing" something changes it's state. That's untrue. The "observation" undertaken includes some type of particle bombardment and collision allowing for the measurement to be taken. That's like saying you can "observe" my car by sending other cars to collide with it, while ignoring the damage done to my car and the movement changes from the impacts. This is what the particle detector is doing in the infamous double slit experiment which claims to prove "observation" of the state change of an electron from a wave to a particle. The "measurement" they take is to perpendicularly bombard the path the electron will take with particles, then fire the electron through it. If they collide with the electron they can calculate based upon the deflection whether it went through the left slit or the right slit. They then conveniently ignore the fact that this impact also deflected the electron they were measuring. It's not mere "observation" that caused the "state change" but an actual, physical impact.
@menso541
@menso541 3 роки тому
Quantum particles: I can't get anything done when you sit there staring at me..
@Games_and_Music
@Games_and_Music 3 роки тому
They're insecure, stagefreight.
@mr.aleximer
@mr.aleximer 3 роки тому
I hope ill finally understand this video after many years of just observing pretending im here for educational purposes...
@LuanMower55
@LuanMower55 3 роки тому
Same, been here for years, don't understand even 10% of what he says but i like his voice...
@Haannibal777
@Haannibal777 3 роки тому
I am sure in some alternate reality, you do understand. This is called “Many Worlds Interpretation”.
@ggiorgib
@ggiorgib 3 роки тому
The fact that I can't argue about anything here or hold any opinions due to my nonexistent knowledge in this field is very calming and feels like magic.
@Eversing93
@Eversing93 3 роки тому
@@ggiorgib Also a very good way to let the universe humble you a fair bit every once in a while.
@DrDeuteron
@DrDeuteron 3 роки тому
there are plenty of working physics PhD who have only 'wtf' to say about the (anti)quantum Zeno effect.
@DGCMWC
@DGCMWC 3 роки тому
I love the look Matt gave the camera at the end of the video when he deadpanned "space-time."
@kylebowles9820
@kylebowles9820 3 роки тому
Awesome, well explained! I really think I understand the controversy!
@jeroendijstelblom8614
@jeroendijstelblom8614 3 роки тому
Masterpiece 👌🏻👌🏻
@FabioLeprechaun
@FabioLeprechaun 3 роки тому
"But Zeno, Greek philosopher famous for his metaphysical trolling" I will use this in class for now on.
@commandershepard6189
@commandershepard6189 3 роки тому
On a statement in your last episode... As a Engineer, I like to look at time as the totality of all velocities and space as the volume to which those velocities move through. Time as the function and space as the junction. I theorize: all of the prior and present fluid mechanics of a given collapsed star (inversed) directly relate to our expansion in this universe. This star would exist in an timeline closely related to the total probabilities of this universe. Einstein's Rosen bridge is a link beyond the plank scale in relation to probabilities to which gives rise to coherency. The decoherent probabilities are only there because our inability to see beyond our own timeline. What is and has been will lead to the now and forever more. One could only know if it has already been.
@masterofdoctory
@masterofdoctory 2 роки тому
Could this be used to freeze newly created elements to keep them from degrading after creation ? Any newly made elements seem to break apart too quickly after their creation to study them much...
@sinteleon
@sinteleon Рік тому
It might... or it might also make them degrade faster. But basically, yes bombarding the element in a perfectly synchronized barrage of particles could in theory keep them from "degrading", though it might not be actually doing that, but instead refreshing it.
@patrick-kees8962
@patrick-kees8962 3 роки тому
Arrows that don't move as long as you stare at them. This sounds like the weeping angels, as long as you don't look they stay still but stop observing them and they appear next to you.
@corinnemuir1542
@corinnemuir1542 3 роки тому
Is Dr Who big where you live?
@Seth-Halo
@Seth-Halo 3 роки тому
Iirc the Weeping Angel's had something to do with quantum mechanics. Ya they could Quantum-lock. Also fun how they used Weeping angel reference in video
@Bassotronics
@Bassotronics 3 роки тому
Súper Mario Ghosts. (Boos / Teresa) As long as you’re looking at them they don’t move.
@Skubasteph
@Skubasteph 3 роки тому
or the ghost from super mario
@Bassotronics
@Bassotronics 3 роки тому
@ *steve* Thanks for confirming what I said above.
@Daavlot
@Daavlot 3 роки тому
Oh no! Even Space Time has jumpscares now XD
@Cronos804
@Cronos804 3 роки тому
Im a mathematician and for zenos paradox the argument i know to solve it goes as follows : Some properties just cant be checked by distributing a check onto subsystems. They depend on the whole system and not just its parts. The main example is often given in the form of the pigeonhole principle. In order to fit 5 Pigeons into 4 holes there must be at least one hole with more than one pigeon. In other words : Not every pigeon can have its own hole. You can check this by comparing the number of holes vs the number of pigeons easily. What you cant do is just look at each hole, find that one of them is somehow 'too small' and than conclude that not every pigeon can have its own hole because of this. None of the holes is special - there just arent enough. Same for the arrow. Movement is a property of the object respective to a time interval. If you only look at individual moments, you might draw the wrong conclusion.
@Davidsasz1239
@Davidsasz1239 3 роки тому
I would love to see a future PBS Space Time video explaining Nature's article: "A strong no-go theorem on the Wigner's friend paradox" (August 2020).
@Tacticslion
@Tacticslion 3 роки тому
“As it turns out, if you punch an archer really hard and then put him in a box full of concrete, he can’t shoot you with an arrow.”
@viveklakshman2897
@viveklakshman2897 3 роки тому
But then you have to really be observant while punching, because if you miss, you can't freeze the initial state and the wave function collapses to the final state of you getting hit! So, observation is must! Both while just observing or even punching.
@Tacticslion
@Tacticslion 3 роки тому
@@viveklakshman2897 Ah! Now you've discovered the violence inherent in the system! (The punching and box-putting *is* the observing.)
@Camelotsmoon
@Camelotsmoon 3 роки тому
So is that why things you want never happen (because you always pay attention to them), and things you don't want to happen always do (because you try to ignore them)?
@RCaIabraro
@RCaIabraro 3 роки тому
I did watch Space Time. This was a particularly good episode. Cutting edge science and philosophy of science
@jdmkoch
@jdmkoch 3 роки тому
This was the best explanation of wave-form collapse. I almost feel like I can see the different systems. Taking something like this to the far extreme, would it be possible to freeze macro objects if you were able to do something like this on a cat? Would that stop aging and allow a time jump into the future? This was one my favorite episodes and I have been watching for years! Great job :)
@slevinchannel7589
@slevinchannel7589 2 роки тому
Try also: -Veritasium. -Its ok to be smart. -Neil Red. -Sci Man Dan. -Sci Show. -Practical Engineering. -Hbomberguy!!
@sinteleon
@sinteleon Рік тому
@@slevinchannel7589 If you could somehow perfectly synchronize energy pulses on every particle of a cat to perfectly reset its state, yes. It's way more likely you'd give said cat cancer though.
@youngfacade4197
@youngfacade4197 7 місяців тому
@@sinteleonwhats up with the science world and murdering cats
@Daniel-Strain
@Daniel-Strain 3 роки тому
Sounds like Zeno was just describing what I learned on PBS Space Time is called a "block universe" model.
@__rikaisuru
@__rikaisuru 3 роки тому
“ Zeno, Greek philosopher famous for his _metaphysical trolling_ ”
@vorname1485
@vorname1485 3 роки тому
He trolled once an archer who tried to shoot an arrow at him.
@paulperkins1615
@paulperkins1615 3 роки тому
I take that as a hint that this whole episode is an example of Quantum Trolling.
@MartianLivesMatter
@MartianLivesMatter 3 роки тому
There is some really cool discoveries about light and its quantum properties when interacting with chloroplasts. They observed some kind of wave from my understanding, like a heart beat.
@heavylight9725
@heavylight9725 3 роки тому
Excellent explanation
@lrwerewolf
@lrwerewolf 3 роки тому
"That which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel."
@ChattahoocheeRiverRat
@ChattahoocheeRiverRat 3 роки тому
So my Roku box, computer and TV are now all angels?
@woawjack
@woawjack 3 роки тому
the moment you said "your call freeze a quantum state by measuring it continuously" my exact thought was "I would say interacting rather than measuring" and exactly then you mentioned leslie ballebtine saying exactly this! I felt really proud of my reasoning after 5 years of pbs spacetime! (wow I am technically well into my masters in spacetime! without ever popping a calculator will you look at that)
@user-wk7iq1yf4w
@user-wk7iq1yf4w 3 роки тому
Excellent episode!
@zyzhang1130
@zyzhang1130 Рік тому
I’m impressed that weeping angle has solids science to back it up
@mimzim7141
@mimzim7141 3 роки тому
Then isnt laser stimulated emission an anti-zeno effect?
@danieljensen2626
@danieljensen2626 3 роки тому
No, for stimulated emission the electrons have to be in the right state to begin with.
@mimzim7141
@mimzim7141 3 роки тому
@@danieljensen2626 what is the difference? You are forcing the transition between two states by interaction with a photon. You can see the original situation as a superposition of the highest and lowest state with a big weight on the highest. The photon transfers the weight on the lowest effectively forcing the transition.
@bigcat5348
@bigcat5348 Рік тому
If a quantum arrow can only exist at the start or the end of its journey, then shouldn't such a projectile be completely harmless? Projectiles derive their lethal power from the kinetic energy created by movement from point A to point B...
@TiagoH1710
@TiagoH1710 Рік тому
XD
@sinteleon
@sinteleon Рік тому
Maybe a perfectly harmless arrow lodged in you, since there probably is a post impact frame.
@derek0x436
@derek0x436 3 роки тому
What if we consider of our perception and measurements of reality as an under-sampling problem: -Given we are capable of collapsing the superposition of the wave function at some sampling rate dictated by our biology or stability of our best sensor/clock, that defines our perceived reality. What if the underlying quantum system however oscillates between quantized states at such an extreme rate (due to some underlying mechanism) that we introduce aliasing into our measurements of such a reality. -Given the many worlds interpretation, each split reality could map to any of the possible number of relative phase offsets between some initial reference sampling point and the 'carrier frequency' of the underlying quantum system (or even to the fundamental nature/start of time). -There would be no way to de-embed the aliased quantum states in our measurements simply because our smallest measurable time scale is still far too large and so we can only obtain reasonable probabilities of various superpositions through averaging of many observations. -The quantum zeno effect could be an indicator that we just happened to sample and perturb the quantum states at some frequency relative to that 'carrier' which happens to have minimal effects from quantum aliasing/distortion. Essentially, we would measure that same initial quantum state (almost) every time because the sampling system and the measured quantum system are somewhat phase coherent and we got really really lucky it related to an aspect of our perception of reality.
@ZefulStarson
@ZefulStarson 3 роки тому
It's really nice that Space Time did an episode on the science of D&D.
@LarryPhischman
@LarryPhischman 3 роки тому
In the analogy of the "Quantum Arrow", wouldn't the only way to "observe" the arrow be to hit it with another identical arrow?
@stephenkamenar
@stephenkamenar 3 роки тому
no. there's many ways to observe things. too many. also, partial observations and partial collapse are a thing.
@april5054
@april5054 3 роки тому
@@stephenkamenar Theres no way to observe a particle without affecting it, whether by letting it collide into an object, or shooting it with some other particle. if you're not doing that you can't tell what the particle's doing at all.
@RobertSzasz
@RobertSzasz 3 роки тому
Hit it with something, doesn't have to be an identical arrow.
@ladymercy5275
@ladymercy5275 3 роки тому
Not really, no. These phenomena manifest with particle types that have non-zero rest mass as well, such as electrons and protons. The differing inertial values between the terminals of your experiment's observational instrumentation will curve each respective wave-state accordingly, but each quantum-probabilistic determination will nonetheless converge to a single tight beam approximating an infinitely thin ray as the isotropic wave-state collapses into an anisotropic configuration of the quantized system, as usual. Rather, what's happening in this "Quantum Arrow" metaphor is that since these particle types are by their very essence symmetrical in a standing-wave configuration as depicted in the video, and due to the apparent conservation of angular momentum in the universe in general, there just isn't any geometrical form by which you can hold a magnifying glass that doesn't consequently by virtue of its focusing lens cast a conjugate shadow across the exact set of possible coordinates that the Quantum Arrow's entangled pair could ever exist in; remember that it entangled pairs can't just be anywhere in the universe, or else they wouldn't be entangled; they would just be quasi-random, isolated events. All of this so-called "weirdness" of quantum mechanics simply melts away if you just realize that the observer effect occurs at the position of your subjective instrumentation, not "the universe." We don't have magnifying glasses that show us the universe, we have magnifying glasses that show us what's happening on the surface of the magnifying glass. That's pretty much the central theme of scientific determinism, isn't it? I don't think that's unusual in the slightest that instruments which focus light simultaneously cast shadows in a conjugate relationship. I guess whatever gets you excited is what you gets excited though. If pretending that QM is magic helps you rationalize physics, then more power to ya'. Personally, I think that thinking of things that happen normally as if they were normal things happening is less confusing than the alternative. :^)
@danieljensen2626
@danieljensen2626 3 роки тому
Not necessarily an arrow, but yeah, you have to hit it with something to measure where it is.
@wyatteichholz3139
@wyatteichholz3139 3 роки тому
"don't blink" So basically we're talking about a Dr Who episode at this point.
@fariesz6786
@fariesz6786 3 роки тому
spacetimey-whimey stuff
@markfoster1520
@markfoster1520 3 роки тому
Wibbily-wobbily
@jcinaz
@jcinaz 2 роки тому
Nice touch @5:01 with "Don't Blink" from Dr. Who.
@georgeindestructible
@georgeindestructible 3 роки тому
if you are observing, you are simply adding factors of disturbance into the equation, you literally affect the outcome even in the smallest probabilistic degree. Certainly mot in specific way shape or form you'd want/wish but...it's kind of like the same with heat in a fully closed cold room place something with more thermal energy in it (fully isolated, which doesn't actually exist, heat will always be exchanged but lets keep it like that for the sake of the example) the temperature will certainly changer over time, so, when you place anything that can either take or give energy to the system the system's properties will have increased changes to show changes in outcomes inside it.
@Grizabeebles
@Grizabeebles 3 роки тому
*Question: Does "collapse of wave function" means "absorbed into a more complex quantum system"?* If that's the case, then don't the problems of set theory apply? It would therefore be impossible to fully measure the MOST complex quantum system (ie. the set containing all sets) because measurement entails interaction _between_ quantum systems. UNLESS brane theory is correct and the universe as we know it is the result of a collision between two or more branches of an infinitely-splitting fractal tree. In that case, "wave function collapse" is a multiverse integrating itself into a single universe. Dimensions restricted by the speed of light would take longer to collapse than those that are not. However, that means we're all trapped inside a collapsing Hilbert space....
@foxglovezayuri8525
@foxglovezayuri8525 2 роки тому
YES! I've been obsessed with this for over a year! I was lacking some of the vocabulary, so thank you for helping me!
@skenky4045
@skenky4045 2 роки тому
Nerd.
@Games_and_Music
@Games_and_Music 3 роки тому
I kinda expected a reference to Kylo Ren in Star Wars, as that was a pretty cool scene where he froze the blaster shot. But maybe it's a contract thing.
@blahblahgdp
@blahblahgdp 3 роки тому
If we could manipulate quantum mechanics I think the force could become very real
@clarke762
@clarke762 3 роки тому
@@blahblahgdp how so?
@-Blue-_
@-Blue-_ 3 роки тому
@@blahblahgdp can you plz tell in detail
@pokeman123451
@pokeman123451 3 роки тому
@@-Blue-_ he has the full proof, but its too long to write here. its simple really, trust him on this one 🥴
@-Blue-_
@-Blue-_ 3 роки тому
@@pokeman123451 really bro ?? I am serious brother 😥😥😥
@stevenjones8575
@stevenjones8575 3 роки тому
I love you, SpaceTime. You're such a fantastic channel. The "Science" cheerleading and the vaunting of scientists above common plebs is one of the (very forgivable) flaws of this channel. I'm not even sure what, exactly, you're cheerleading. The scientific community? Scientific community's consensus? The scientific method? Plenty of non-scientists use reasoning, form hypotheses, test their ideas, check and correct each other, enjoy learning new things and making new discoveries, etc. The scientific community has accomplished many things with the many resources available to it. And I very much love learning the things the scientific community has learned and is sharing. And that community is full of people, people who like to be right and very much dislike being wrong, just like any other group of people. Hailing "Science" as the Best Thing Ever is akin to looking at the court system and judicial community, calling it "Justice" and then hailing said Justice as the best thing ever because they hold principles of truth and fact finding and evidence (which they also often fail at). I admire the principles that the scientific community holds dear. And what should be vaunted--rather than "Science"--are those principles: Logical reasoning, testing, acceptance of one's own errors, evidence gathering, peer review, etc. Because none of these are exclusive to the scientific community. And some communities desperately need to embrace these principles without having to join "Science." Again, I love you all there at SpaceTime. You've greatly enriched my life. Thanks.
@dennislaffey
@dennislaffey 2 роки тому
So the original Zeno's arrow, not the quantum one, can be explained by quantum physics, if I'm understanding this right. If you shot an arrow, at any particular point in time, the arrow would be both in its "current" position and in its "subsequent" position simultaneously (or "previous" and "current" positions, positions A and B, each a Planck Length apart). If you stop time and observe the arrow, it becomes stationary in one of the two possible positions as the quantum wave collapses. If you move time ahead one Planck time unit, the arrow is now at both positions B and C simultaneously, until observed, in which case it is measured in one or the other. And that's how the arrow actually moves through physical space-time, rather than quantum teleporting to the target.
@fffUUUUUU
@fffUUUUUU 3 роки тому
"Because you watched... spacetime" lol 😂
@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394
@reidflemingworldstoughestm1394 3 роки тому
So when John Cleese attacked the castle in the Holy Grail he must have been a quantum knight... all the way across the field, or at the guards' throats.
@blackhawks81H
@blackhawks81H 2 роки тому
He was demonstrating the yet unnamed "Picard maneuver".
@michaelemerson9515
@michaelemerson9515 3 роки тому
With a second laser would you be able to trap the electron and keep it in limbo? Keeping it from returning to the start position or making it to the finish.
@doobie_mouse2083
@doobie_mouse2083 2 роки тому
Whats funny is I was already thinking Dr. Who tought me this trick years ago and then bam! Weeping Angel. You guys are the best. Stay awesome and thank you for keeping my mind curious.
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