This chapter explores the concept of quantum mechanics and how it challenges our understanding of the universe, discussing quantum entanglement and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. It highlights the ways in which quantum mechanics disrupts our fundamental ideas about reality.
In this episode we cover the underpinnings of the either/or, cause-then-effect, deterministic, distance-separates-things, no-info-travels-faster-than-light, orderly world of classical physics. It is the world inhabited by such luminaries as Newton and Einstein.
Then we descend into the merely probabilistic, action-at-a-distance, neither/both world of Quantum Physics to cover the most bafflng and counter intuituve (nay, SPOOKY in the words of Einstein) phenomenon in nature -- Quantum Entanglement.
If you have not listened to the episode on Schrodinger's Cat (HBH 50) it is recommended you do so first. Superposition is a necessary precursor to this topic also.
For more info:
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/proving-that-quantum-entanglement-is-real#:~:text=The%20Freedman–Clauser%20experiment%20was,2010%20Wolf%20Prize%20in%20physics.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-entanglement-isnt-all-that-spooky-after-all1/
Art by Ian Armstrong
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