Einstein's Quantum Riddle! In Memoriam to Dr. Andy Friedman (#326)

Three years ago our beloved colleague, Astrophysicist Andrew Friedman unexpectedly and tragically passed away. Andy was an outstanding science communicator and presented at many events with your host Brian Keating and other colleagues from the Arthur C. Clark Center For Human Imagination and UC San Diego. This is a replay recording of one of his last public appearences where he discussed one of his favorite subjects, Quantum Entanglement and Bell’s Inequality.

Einstein famously thought Quantum entanglement was impossible and called it spooky action at a distance.

Dr. Friedman was a Principle collaborator on an experiment of such galactic scale that it was the subject of a PBS NOVA Feature documentary, Einstein’s Quantum Riddle.

Along with Andy’s articulate explanation of the cosmic bell test experiment using distant Quasars, your host professor Brian Keating moderates a panel that includes Jason Gallicchio (Professor of Physics, Harvey Mudd College) and David Brin (physicist and Hugo & Nebula-winning author).

As a testament to Andy’s vision and science acumen, since this event, Andy’s collaborator, Anton Zeilinger shared the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics with John Clauser and Alain Aspect, for experiments with entangled photons, further establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science. Their results have cleared the way for new technology based on quantum information profound implications.

The Paper:

Cosmic Bell Test using Random Measurement Settings from High-Redshift Quasars

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.05966

PBS NOVA Special: https://youtu.be/068rdc75mHM

Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts

Please leave a rating and review:

On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB
On Spotify it’s here: https://spoti.fi/3vpfXok
On Audible it’s here https://tinyurl.com/wtpvej9v
Find other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast
Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating
or become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices