112. Quantum Entanglement & the Cosmic Bell Test | THUNK
Channel: THUNK
Date: 2017-02-22

Quantum physics is weird as hell, but this entanglement experiment using stars is simply beautiful.

-Links for the Curious-

Cosmic Bell Test: Measurement Settings from Milky Way Stars - http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.060401

The original article from Quanta which prompted this episode - https://www.quantamagazine.org/20170207-bell-test-quantum-loophole/ 

"On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox" by J.S. Bell, 1964, which demonstrates mathematically that the switching-discrete-values thing gives different results than the superposition thing - https://cds.cern.ch/record/111654/files/vol1p195-200_001.pdf

Feynman's Messenger Lecture on probability & uncertainty - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5RQ3QF9GGI

Feynman's Sir Douglas Robb lecture on quantum electrodynamics - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLQ2atfqk2c&list=PL8590A6E18255B3F4 (I promise the audio gets better about a quarter of the way thru.)

Sixty Symbols on quantum superposition - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRRnMS1sm6Y&t=8s