Is Life Quantum Mechanical? - Prof. Jim Al-Khalili

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  • Опубліковано 14 гру 2017
  • Jim Al-Khalili is a physicist, author and broadcaster based at the University of Surrey, where he also holds a chair in the Public Engagement in Science.
  • Наука та технологія

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  • @dlool777
    @dlool777 3 роки тому +21

    Jim Al-Kahlili is a master of explaining complex things in a very digestible manner. He is far and away my fav

    • @independentjames1
      @independentjames1 2 роки тому +2

      Couldn’t agree more

    • @albin2232
      @albin2232 Рік тому

      So true.

    • @dickrichard626
      @dickrichard626 Рік тому

      Sometimes it's a lot of hot air... Leaving you with unanswered questions...It really depends on where you find significance. A lot of your Quatum mechanics is not very immediately benificial to anyone in reality, because they've already made weapons and reactors and what not, all that's left is figuring out "What's really goin' on?" Honestly, I'm no physicist, but assumed that electrons must be like photons in having wave like properties a long time ago... obviously they jump around and change partners with other Atoms, but they always act like it's a bunch of cannon balls flying around when really it's more like water flowing and pervasive. Electrons inside of you are constantly being exchanged with everything else around you. That's why, there's the one guy who Said it's only one electron... Reality is inherently paradoxical and it creates an eccentric and nonsensical Rhetoric that we must constantly approach this aspect of reality and then immediately start over again... I prefer to recognize it keep it in mind and continue. It's not that difficult that reality contradicts itself and there are infinities inside of the finite objective reality. There are many different dimensions inside of reality that we can not truly comprehend. Getting caught on paradoxes just instantly ruins the "Theory"... Alot of the popular concepts in physics are only the most cherry picked ideas possible...

    • @betterthanuall
      @betterthanuall Рік тому

      He is a shitty muslim
      Jihad at peak

  • @blues_guitar_string3733
    @blues_guitar_string3733 6 років тому +61

    One of the best quantum mechanical talks I have ever heard. The speaker is incredibly good, a real rarity in youtube talks on science.
    The way he brought quantum tunneling, superposition, and entanglement into microbiology is thrilling, and I am grateful to him because I believe I vastly increased my knowledge of these fields.

    • @1rt741
      @1rt741 3 роки тому +1

      He makes me understand, that's quite the accomplishment!

    • @barryminor616
      @barryminor616 3 роки тому +1

      Weird collaborations are growing
      Quantum ConscioUS ENTANGLEMENT can be a greater thing if WE 'Dwell on the GOOD things in LIFE"~ Paul Alexandrian
      Thank YOU alllll

    • @guptraj9181
      @guptraj9181 3 роки тому

      Is this you, Jim?

    • @scottb5716
      @scottb5716 3 роки тому

      He's also a TV presenter

    • @smhsophie
      @smhsophie 3 роки тому

      @C M science-y salesman.

  • @mrwideboy
    @mrwideboy Рік тому +2

    I was taught quantum mechanics and maths by Jim in the mid 1990s..He is genuinely a really good lecture and make the effort to present it so simple brains like mine could understand it.

  • @theferallife3559
    @theferallife3559 5 років тому +14

    +10 points for not making us fast forward past the introduction.

  • @shanemoore8055
    @shanemoore8055 5 років тому +158

    Heisenberg, Schrodinger and Ohm are in a car
    They get pulled over. Heisenberg is driving and the cop asks him "Do you know how fast you were going?"
    "No, but I know exactly where I am" Heisenberg replies.
    The cop says "You were doing 55 in a 35." Heisenberg throws up his hands and shouts "Great! Now I'm lost!"
    The cop thinks this is suspicious and orders him to pop open the trunk. He checks it out and says "Do you know you have a dead cat back here?"
    "We do now, asshole!" shouts Schrodinger.
    The cop moves to apprehend them. Ohm tries his best to resist .

    • @shanemoore8055
      @shanemoore8055 5 років тому +4

      imagine how frustrated Heisenberg would be, being pulled over by a cop for speeding?

    • @anthonyrisi252
      @anthonyrisi252 4 роки тому +17

      This is funny af!!! Ohm can't conduct himself.omg😆🤣😂

    • @viewer3091
      @viewer3091 3 роки тому +2

      Just let the black man go !

    • @TheWisdom3
      @TheWisdom3 3 роки тому

      Almost spat my coffee.

    • @RioGamer
      @RioGamer 3 роки тому +2

      @@viewer3091 racist

  • @julioylosabes1940
    @julioylosabes1940 2 роки тому +1

    Thank you, thank you and thank you for this awesome speech professor Jim

  • @miketoumah9241
    @miketoumah9241 3 роки тому

    finally... Prof Kim Khalil speaking to us without the annoying MUSIC ....... pleasure ... thank you Prof Khalili.

  • @CarolynFahm
    @CarolynFahm 3 роки тому +1

    One of the most exciting lectures I have ever heard.

  • @zaferatakan1082
    @zaferatakan1082 3 роки тому +1

    thank you Prof. Jim Al-Khalil you serve as a gateway as quantum biology in my life, be grateful for that, cuz you can be assured that I'm feeling much greater appreciation !

  • @KeltyVince
    @KeltyVince 4 роки тому +1

    I'm actually quite shocked that there isn't more study in this area of science, I find it really amazing that biology utilizes Quantum Mechanics, especially how it seems that the Robin uses Quantum entanglement to sense gravitational field angles, mind blowing stuff to me !, a really great lecture.

  • @aurora123borealis
    @aurora123borealis 5 років тому +2

    Jim al khalili is a brilliant presenter of science.

  • @juliusraben3526
    @juliusraben3526 Рік тому

    Seriously... this man is a treasure. Most of his docus boil down to the same thing, but with a different twist for every docu.
    I understand it... but if i have to apply it i get high school flashbacks (explanation versus applocation haha)

  • @goerizal1
    @goerizal1 6 років тому +4

    great, great teacher man.. thanks..

  • @santumanna7022
    @santumanna7022 Рік тому

    I liked before watching this video , because i know what you sir do.
    I Love your work.
    From INDIAN STUDENT, WEST BENGAL.

  • @mayamanign
    @mayamanign Рік тому

    Love professor Al-Kahlili

  • @savage22bolt32
    @savage22bolt32 Рік тому

    @ 1:10:30: Eckersley Lecture date is shown as 2016.
    That was my first question, and the last one answered. It is nice to be able find the date in the title or description.

  • @jamielacourse7578
    @jamielacourse7578 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you for intelligent programming.

  • @Yotrek
    @Yotrek Рік тому +1

    1:10:02 Closing your set with a quantum mechanics Brexit bit. 🔥

  • @marraskalimotxo
    @marraskalimotxo 5 років тому +8

    Great lecture. Anyways, if you've already seen his documentary "The secrets of Quantum Physics: Let There Be Life" you can skip it, it covers basically the same subjects.

  • @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time
    @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time 5 років тому +5

    This is an invitation to see a theory on the nature of time! In this theory we have an emergent uncertain future continuously coming into existence relative to the spontaneous absorption and emission of photon energy. The future is unfolding with each photon electron coupling or dipole moment relative to the atoms of the periodic table and the wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is part of a universal process of energy exchange that forms the ever changing world of our everyday life.

  • @anoopsahal1202
    @anoopsahal1202 3 роки тому

    Excellent lecture enhanced by the personality of the speaker

  • @johnperkins8895
    @johnperkins8895 3 роки тому +1

    The camera guy did not need to follow the speaker. Would have been nice to see the screen more often

  • @rontavakoli-JD-MBA
    @rontavakoli-JD-MBA 3 роки тому +1

    love this man of science. brilliant, articulate, observer of facts, devoid of personal opinion. my hero. idiots have opinions...brilliant minds conclude from facts...observed or hypothesized.

    • @stevebrindle1724
      @stevebrindle1724 3 роки тому

      Agreed, an explanation of reality without reference to a fairy take god-figure! Science has moved thought away from such nonsense we just need the masses to catch up and get rid of the divisive religious nonsense

    • @GGora
      @GGora 3 роки тому

      steve brindle unfortunately, science behaves like religion when it comes to research that I do or others like me are conducting. Which is really sad. And really unscientific.

  • @sunroad7228
    @sunroad7228 6 років тому +9

    Very inspiring speech. What puzzles is from where an atom gets all the energy to exist in two or more places at the same time?
    From where all the energy is taken to sustain multi-universes simultaneously?
    Why we on Earth always default to the lowest energy instance of all universes, confirmed when the fuel tank of a car empties, the car stops, playing the-cat-dead and 'frozen' but never alive?
    Quantum world is amazing, indeed.

  • @Norman92151
    @Norman92151 5 років тому

    Brilliant man and great lecturer.

  • @TheYanbibiya
    @TheYanbibiya 6 років тому

    I quite like jim. His interviews on life scientific are quite good though if like them to be longer and better edited. As someone with zero training or education I find it all fantastic and enjoy it when I understand bits. However , being more spiritual than scientific by inclination I tend to see big answers mixed with philosophy and spiritual experience. As we won't ever understand nothing and something , I'm enjoying the benefits of science while " believing for my contined meaning , happiness and existence beyond any material realm conceived by man and his material quantum univeses

  • @jacobski5726
    @jacobski5726 2 роки тому

    Jim is so good!

  • @bassimmowlood4258
    @bassimmowlood4258 5 років тому +2

    As always so interesting to listen to Jim. He has away in conveying complex subject in a very interesting way.

  • @rjp7164
    @rjp7164 3 роки тому +1

    Great lecture but cameraman needs shooting, should have just held a wide shot and colour balanced the camera for the projection screen and leave it at that.

    • @westinthewest
      @westinthewest 3 роки тому +1

      The mic sound is amateurish as well. I could forgive dodgy production standards at a lecture in flower-arranging, but here we should have a location with a high concentration of technical competence.

    • @rjp7164
      @rjp7164 3 роки тому +1

      @@westinthewest Yeah I fully agree - it wouldn't have taken much to sort him out with a decent mic

  • @ALBANICUM
    @ALBANICUM 3 роки тому

    What a great lecture!!!

  • @robertflynn6686
    @robertflynn6686 3 роки тому

    You raise some important biochem examples of your hypothesis Jim!!
    Besides the tunneling cases is qm resonances that transfer energy from proteins to others in soliton theory.. Davyfovs' models, based on the Schrodinger equations. In the eye 👁 for example recoverin allows rapid firing of optic nerves to see continuously.
    Someday we'll have more of quantum biology examples.

  • @shailajalokre5013
    @shailajalokre5013 3 роки тому

    It is possible that in uncertainty principle, particle seems to be jumping but it might be moving continuously along a path part of which is in higher dimension. So we can not see that part which isi. Higher dimension and hence think that it jumps

  • @tobybowden4009
    @tobybowden4009 6 років тому

    A brilliant and eloquent scientist, very well explained, however he did miss entanglement and tunneling

  • @user-mu7xp3uq2e
    @user-mu7xp3uq2e 5 років тому +23

    "We don't see things how they are, we see things how we are." Dr. Joe Dispenza

    • @kevinfletcher1999
      @kevinfletcher1999 3 роки тому +2

      And we don’t see things on the screen! Camera work is atrocious! ZOOM OUT!

    • @kerryburns6041
      @kerryburns6041 3 роки тому

      Excellent quotation, simple but profound -- thank you.

  • @varadarajcuram2238
    @varadarajcuram2238 5 років тому +3

    Amazing lectures. Thank you Sir.

  • @apocalipsedude
    @apocalipsedude 4 роки тому +1

    Brilliant!

  • @mdb1239
    @mdb1239 3 роки тому +1

    Wow. Very, very interesting.

  • @EccentricaGallumbits
    @EccentricaGallumbits 6 років тому +2

    Thanks, A.I.Channel! I love your videos -- how you get them all is a mystery most profound. Quantum Bio and how/whether it is integral to brain functioning is a fascinating topic to ponder. May it be necessary to consciousness, after all (despite Penrose getting it wrong)?? Another example of QB that Al-Khalili talks about in his book (Life on the Edge) concerns the sense of smell. Hydrogens in certain fragrant organic molecules were replaced with deuterium. So exact same chemistry, but different quantum properties (resonance). And they smelled quite distinct, even to our (rather feeble) human noses. My (rather feeble) human brain boggles. Cheers!

  • @Constantinesis
    @Constantinesis 4 роки тому +1

    Very interesting! I hope that you go further from this into quantum brain activity. How does a brain work at a quantum level? Is the brain an intelligent matter? Can we basically control matter through our conscious thoughts or is it all just an illusion and everyhing is pre-determined?

    • @catman4471
      @catman4471 3 роки тому

      Well we do control matter through our conscious thoughts. Take a carpenter for example.

    • @samuelj5890
      @samuelj5890 Рік тому

      You should look up Roger Penrose, he talks about quantum mechanics' relation to neurons and conscioussness etc.

  • @xavieraguerrevere9716
    @xavieraguerrevere9716 4 роки тому

    life itself is very much vinculateted to the nature of the universe, the fact that natures ages that is a quantum efect

  • @ShaneGowlerMelaleuca
    @ShaneGowlerMelaleuca 3 роки тому

    This is all very interesting looking at a purely physical aspect of Quantum mechanics, however now that it has been 3 more years since this video. Where do you position yourself on the theory that the human thought has energy and that energy relates to the universe and would that end at the end of the Milky Way or is the energy trapped by our solar system exclusive to us ?
    Perhaps it is a part of an infinite energy system that has no restrictions or boundaries???
    I'm really just asking, however I am truly interested in your thoughts on this.
    I would love to hear your thoughts and concepts. Shane

  • @bretnetherton9273
    @bretnetherton9273 3 роки тому

    Awareness is known by awareness alone.

  • @niranjansaikia9379
    @niranjansaikia9379 3 роки тому +1

    life is really quantum machanical..you are sbsolutly right

  • @gordonoostenbrink7907
    @gordonoostenbrink7907 2 роки тому

    Yes Mr. Al-Khalili you are brilliant,,I recently watched a Spark video where the demon was controlling the "hot" atoms and the "cold" atoms,,re: memory,,ahh yes it was the Information Video,,awesome too I might add,,this point @ 27:00 roughly reminded me of that,,you are so easy to understand,,thank you for you master oratory!

  • @ddabo4460
    @ddabo4460 6 років тому

    Great lecture

  • @bobtheblindbedroomguitaris8742
    @bobtheblindbedroomguitaris8742 3 роки тому

    what I find even more mind-boggling with quantum entanglement is that if the distance that the two electrons occupy the signal that makes them react exactly the same whether they are a foot apart or a light year apart happens instantaneously ain't that something magic Cecilia was, Bob the blonde bedroom guitars

  • @chiralhome
    @chiralhome 4 роки тому +2

    Good lecture, but bad camerawork

  • @toddhupp
    @toddhupp 3 роки тому +1

    very cool!

  • @vsubhuti
    @vsubhuti 2 роки тому

    what no music (random noises ) that are in his other videos great

  • @tierdiamante104
    @tierdiamante104 6 років тому +1

    Great video

  • @gordonoostenbrink7907
    @gordonoostenbrink7907 2 роки тому

    Re: 1:01:43 mark
    Middle age !! Love it!! I am a big two years or so your senior,,,just like the analogy to "middle"age! LOL!!

  • @aryehfinklestein9041
    @aryehfinklestein9041 6 років тому +29

    Good lecture, but bad camerawork - often doesn't get to the illustrations in time. But thanks anyway.

    • @yash1152
      @yash1152 4 роки тому

      he was focussing solely on Jim Al-Khalili for most of the time I guess

    • @kenanderson7769
      @kenanderson7769 4 роки тому +2

      The camera person does not realise the camera does not need to be on Al-Khalili for him to be heard.

    • @viclotorto9488
      @viclotorto9488 4 роки тому

      It was the lighting

    • @GoldenBloodyBeared
      @GoldenBloodyBeared 3 роки тому

      Thanks but your bad

  • @psychonautic9734
    @psychonautic9734 6 років тому

    Anyone familiar with Professor Denis Noble and his theory, books and lectures on Biological Relativity? both his books are fascinating reads...

  • @davidwilkie9551
    @davidwilkie9551 6 років тому

    "Essentially", Quantum is an active quality throughout Existence, equals quantum mechanism connection by another name, so everywhere and anywhere is a relative quantized state, not empty, it's as posited in another part of the talk, a lower logarithmic occurrence of information. Superspin-spectrum.
    The exclusion principle is the distributing action of the information spectrum, that provides a reasonable explanation for observations, that prohibits the skier going both sides of a tree "at once", (possibility is The Universe, probability is the focused dominance of the wave-package), it's still a matter of quantized proportions.
    (Maybe QM is being used as a handy excuse for maintaining the "gravy train" mystery for Academic study, but the practical users can just get on and use what works?)

  • @fatihokhider
    @fatihokhider 5 років тому +1

    if we consider space as the only visible part of our universe...we can consider the existence of other invisible universes inhabited as ours with life like things that have different properties where QM is ruling every aspect of their life...!?

  • @laurahaaima1436
    @laurahaaima1436 3 роки тому

    Could you influence the superposition by the power of the mind? So could we if we believe.. change matter?

  • @pardoharsimanjuntak1483
    @pardoharsimanjuntak1483 6 років тому +2

    the description of the light spectrum has different wavelengths, how all types of wavelengths become beneficial to living things. so the plant can adjust to the wavelength of the corresponding light.

    • @stellank450
      @stellank450 6 років тому

      Pardohar, very intresting. Can you share a good source about this issue? Thank you.

    • @pardoharsimanjuntak1483
      @pardoharsimanjuntak1483 6 років тому

      bacteria superbugs

    • @vadinhopsc
      @vadinhopsc 6 років тому +1

      Well... actually, plants or other living things do "adjust" to anything. It is evolution working here, right? If something is beneficial, it will favor proliferation, if it is not, the living ''thing'' willl fade away.

  • @richardcarew4708
    @richardcarew4708 3 роки тому

    the question assumes that the study of physics is somehow separate, or other, than regular life.. but if you think about it... the study of the Universe we live in pretty much includes everything
    and, yes, the processes of life are very much governed by the quantum Universe... it's not separate, it's really really small... 1.6169 (10-³⁵) = the Planck length.... at which point our Universe seethes with sub quark particles that pop in and out of existence continuously, bringing new hydrogen atoms continuously all around us all the time... Leonard Susskind of Stanford has talked about the "holographic" Universe... and I have been thinking about this, a lot... it's almost like we create our own reality through our thoughts and ideas... and we create them from something that is not there, yet.... the future....through the auspices of quantum foam... it's been said the Human mind has more possible connections than there are atoms in the visible Universe.... the double slit experiment shows clearly that an intelligent observer drastically modifies the outcome of any process.... one bit of wisdom from the past said "as ye believe, so shall it be "
    Make it so

  • @doronron7323
    @doronron7323 4 роки тому

    I've long admired Jims presentation techniques, he's obviously a very clever chap. This was the first time I've seen him exposed to well meaning questions from a lay audience. It saddened me to see him virtually squirm on several issues. I would have hoped he would have the confidence in himself and his topic to not shrink into the classical, conservative science establishment posture and be so uncomfortable.

  • @julianmccormack8704
    @julianmccormack8704 5 років тому +2

    I'm a massive fan (have read both Pathfinders and Life on the Edge), but comparing Hameroff and Penrose to homeopathy and asserting that quantum consciousness is discredited is just not fair. Hameroff in particular is hammering out credible papers on this topic, co-authored with others such as Anirban Bandyopadhyay.

  • @friedlogic
    @friedlogic 4 роки тому

    intriguing

  • @trekpac2
    @trekpac2 Рік тому +1

    I appreciate your superb ability to communicate matters regarding quantum biology. However, I did not hear any discussion about the big questions in biology, even interesting guesses at them.
    You made brief references to an information field and to holographic something or other. But I’d like to probe your brain on the concept of an informed field, on morphogenetics (coherence of development of organisms), cells and organisms interacting with each other in a quantum way, non-local fields and local fields (potential thoughts actualized into thoughts).
    Maybe we are still 40 years away from being able to talk about such subjects. I challenge physicists to look for ways of testing such ideas, including extra sensory perception. It certainly requires pushing some boundaries of research and allowing academics to look at these areas without being blackballed by their colleagues as crazy!

  • @Roust7
    @Roust7 3 роки тому

    Reality is everything that exist has both wave and particles properties. You can even calculate the probability of a person going from one side of wall appearing on the other without going through the space between.

  • @haiedd7955
    @haiedd7955 3 роки тому

    Is enlightened outside the mechanism of the universe??

  • @sudhirdes
    @sudhirdes 3 роки тому

    Awesome. Rivetting

  • @ThomasHaberkorn
    @ThomasHaberkorn 6 років тому +1

    if E=h*f, and E is quantized, does this mean that also f is quantized?

    • @ryanthackston3439
      @ryanthackston3439 3 роки тому

      Doesn't h quantize f? I thought f is just frequency. You can quantize it in the frequency domain but not in the time domain.

  • @peterkay7458
    @peterkay7458 5 років тому

    spinning clockwise and counter cw simply describes a standing wave

  • @captainnobi9518
    @captainnobi9518 4 роки тому

    He keep saying happen to be in deferent places at Sam time , and it could be in two or three different times , problem is what time u are located not only the opject

  • @davidwilkie9551
    @davidwilkie9551 6 років тому

    The solvent extraction of compounds from complex substances benefits, when washing organic materials off your hands, from the use of a bipolar molecule, "dualistic detergent", because the naturally occurring phase integration of bonds is the Quantum Fields Mechanism in actuality.
    Concepts of integrated existence are "vertically integrated" versions of the illustrated methodology.
    Coherence, zero to one, in relative proportion in the Universal interval, is all there is in shifting states defined by physical laws, and a cultural environment has linguistic representations of relatedness, approximately relevant to scientific Nomenclature, which is supposed to be "valueless" abstraction - systematic identity stratification. (?)

    • @napoleonwilson2249
      @napoleonwilson2249 4 роки тому

      David Wilkie a whole lot of words to say nothing really, well done.

  • @keyissues1027
    @keyissues1027 3 роки тому

    Quantum particles & waves are of subatomic level that are in the form of photons, electrons and protons. Electromagnetic waves incorporate quantum, as well.

  • @JonasUllenius
    @JonasUllenius 4 роки тому +1

    Quantum gravity. Quantum gravity (QG) is a field of theoretical physics that seeks to describe gravity according to the principles of quantum mechanics, and where quantum effects cannot be ignored, such as near compact astrophysical objects where the effects of gravity are strong.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity

  • @brotherabdullah
    @brotherabdullah 3 роки тому

    Presentation time stamp (37:31) - I don't know if at heart Jim Al-Khalili prescribes fully to the 'blind determination theory' of Darwinism but it would of been more accurate to of said "It appears that nature on a biological level seems to posses the innate ability to be able to achieve photosynthesis in spite of its complex stages..." in comparison toimpossibility

  • @alish5417
    @alish5417 3 роки тому

    Life is everything you may think of and everything you may not think of ...i have a question is the mind quantum mechanical yes it is .is the brain the receptor of the physical universe yes it is after i die will i perceive the universe as it is when i was alive no no is there a soul yes and does it travel faster than light yes it is

  • @smashu2
    @smashu2 6 років тому

    Whether proton tunneling can cause mutations is still an open question ?? The only way it would not cause mutation is that if the mutated cell could not replicate itself after the tunneling occur so the answer is yes unless you can prove that those mutated molecule lose the capacity to replicate themself.

  • @TNStrikeman
    @TNStrikeman 5 років тому

    My questions is can it blend?

  • @randalllannon9173
    @randalllannon9173 5 років тому

    Life is a Highway...

  • @GGora
    @GGora 3 роки тому

    How could I use ancient rules and tell lives of 117 people ( in 5 months) , 3 hour audios each, without ever meeting them or knowing them based on their birthdays and do it accurately, statistically significantly, if we were not programmed?? Some one wants to explain that to me? My entire research is online. On public third party platform.

  • @toddboothbee1361
    @toddboothbee1361 6 років тому +3

    Quantum biology for room temperature quantum computing...perhaps? Easier to speculate than conceive, of course.

    • @DannyHeywood
      @DannyHeywood 6 років тому

      Like those 'Bio-Gel Packs' in Star Trek Voyager, not a bad idea Tod

  • @UrielD88
    @UrielD88 6 років тому

    The solid existence shows us our internal mechanism of thinking and its repercussions - It shows us US, it IS us. You see, when we want to measure something, it is because we try to understand that something, that is to say, we create a question in our mind and expect it to get a determinate answer. This very exercise of posing a question with a demand for this one exact correct answer is what creates duality in our psyche. The duality manifests as in: is this the RIGHT answer or not? The repercussion of this is that we become confined by our own self imposed prison in the search for an illusory answer - we get trapped in space and time. Now, why do i say all this? Well, If we look closely at the solid existence out there, both at the microscopic scale and the macroscopic, we can start to see ourselves in it; As though the outside solid is mimicking the abstract inside of ourselves, or in other words, they are both and the same. The similarities can be found there: The very act of observing or measuring a particle (that is, we are imposing on it the question form that we are hoping to get an answer for) collapses the wave function into a particle; so lo and behold, spacetime has given birth to a particle in the same way you give birth to spacetime by the very fact of thinking and therefore the particle has a duality nature to it. This is manifested as Quantum entanglement - duality itself in a solid form. Do you see the resemblance? The particle behaves just like our minds when we get lost in thinking expecting to know something definite about something - That is the nature of thought.
    Of course out of the microscopic, the macroscopic gets built itself upon, with duality being written all over it, making it very "easy" for us to pose all kinds of questions about it and get dual-nature "answers" for the thinking mind, which by the way, hardly truly satisfy us no matter how elegant and correct we make them to be, because at the end, we can't help but hear the reverberations of the music of our own self built circus. So maybe we should ask the subatomic particles for any useful guidance to end this endless cycle of suffering, they'll tell you; they know how it feels to live in a free wavy world with any expectation to become, because that is the curse of spacetime.
    If you got what i am trying to convey here, as a natural consequence your itchy due to not grasping quantum mechanics persistent discomfort should recede into a comfortably understanding of the non understandable which by itself is an illusion and implode into a black hole of bliss and connectedness with everything - which is you. The true you, not the dual you.
    Existence as in ourselves, is reflecting back at us US, and showing us who we truly are. Peace and love.
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    • @irszgatti
      @irszgatti 6 років тому

      Uriel Deift sounds like you've proposed the mechanics of the self-fufilling prophecy. Whether relevant or not, I doubt I'll forget your explanation.
      Sounds like your saying that by merely deciding to make a measurement, you have created an object/event you are anticipating to confirm exists. While it is there, it is also elsewhere, so we've made a duplicate in essence and begin to question which was even the organic source.
      Where does the energy come from to conjure up such things? Apparently you cannot create energy, only convert it. If that is true, certainly QM has a role in that process.
      On a flash drive, you can create a new file or erase it, but you really only rearranged electrons inherent to the drive. You can duplicate the file, but you will have used some of the drives capacity.

  • @HASHHASSIN
    @HASHHASSIN 4 роки тому

    BTW, *when and who discredited Penrose-Hameroff model?*

    • @HASHHASSIN
      @HASHHASSIN 4 роки тому

      @@irinayaroslavova2370 Exactly Thank you Irina.. Because of Penrose and Hameroff i am reading all papers about Consciousness, Quantum(everything), CCC Model etc and i am political science, international relations expert lol

    • @zagyex
      @zagyex 3 роки тому +1

      Noone, really, it is debated.
      But isn't it very very unlikely that qm is *not* utilized in the most complex process that life created? We plan to use qm in computation, because it makes it so much more effective. it is used by simple biological processes. yet we think it is not utilized where it would be the most useful, in the human brain. Seems foolish.
      I think he tries to not to deviate too much from the mainstream, so goes with the crowd. Even saying opinion on the OrchOr would mean a stain on reputation. This doesn't mean that he thinks it is false. Btw some new research says that humans can sense the magnetic field of the Earth as well.

    • @zagyex
      @zagyex 3 роки тому

      www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b082ymnx

    • @zagyex
      @zagyex 3 роки тому +1

      From an interview with Johnjoe McFadden, co-author of the book with Jim :
      You discuss Penrose and Hameroff’s Orch OR (Orchestrated Objective Reduction) model of consciousness briefly in your book, as an example of a quantum theory of consciousness. While you agree that there is a strong possibility of quantum effects involved in consciousness you aren’t convinced that microtubules and quantum effects in the tubulin dimers of microtubules is a very good candidate for the key mechanism of consciousness. Can you explain why?
      Any quantum physicist will tell you how hard it is to maintain delicate quantum states. They are normally confined to the atomic scale, within single atoms, or at most to the molecular scale within single molecules. Occasionally, under highly controlled conditions, such as close to a temperature of absolute zero, in a vacuum and on a vibration-shielded table, it is possible to generate macroscopic quantum phenomena, such as superconductivity, but not in any condition remotely like a hot, wet and highly dynamic living brain.
      I have written extensively on the exciting findings of quantum biology (my book Quantum Evolution in 2001 and Life on the Edge, with Jim Al-Khalili in 2014) in which I described recent exciting research implicating quantum phenomena in biology. However, the systems that have been proposed to host quantum phenomena remain very small, on the nanoscale - a single molecule like that in a protein or a single photosystem within the antennae complex of a plant or microbe.
      They also maintain quantum coherence within single cells for only hundreds of femtoseconds, which is surprisingly long in particle physics terms but a million times faster than our millisecond thoughts. The Penrose-Hameroff Orch OR theory requires coherent quantum states between billions of cells over centimeter length-scales to be maintained for at least milliseconds in the hot wet and highly dynamic brain. I know many quantum physicists and none consider this to be remotely feasible. I also know of no neurobiologist, other than Hameroff, who believes it. You will not find it referred in any standard neurobiology text or paper. No one, outside of the Penrose-Hameroff consciousness fan club takes the theory at all seriously.
      We also know it is impossible. As I mentioned, quantum states are very delicate and only exist for at nanometer length scales and femtosecond timescales in any dynamic system at ambient temperatures. The microtubules on which the Orch OR theory is based on, are amongst the most dynamic objects that we know of inside cells. They are continuously being rapidly polymerized and depolymerized as cells respond to stimuli. This process of continuous polymerization and depolymerization is totally incompatible with long-lived quantum states. To claim quantum coherence could survive in such busy molecules would be like claiming that a snowflake can survive inside a furnace. The Orch OR theory is not just wrong. It’s impossible. And it is not supported by any scientific evidence.

    • @HASHHASSIN
      @HASHHASSIN 3 роки тому

      @@zagyex full interview link pls?

  • @Roedygr
    @Roedygr 4 роки тому

    Do all these particles occur in nature?

  • @LonskiBig
    @LonskiBig 3 роки тому

    .....Suppose you replace the phrase "2 different places at the same time".....with...."booth alive, and dead" at the same time...and you only know WHICH when you attempt to observe....

  • @tobybowden4009
    @tobybowden4009 6 років тому

    Can electrons "borrow" energy from the future?

  • @BANKO007
    @BANKO007 3 роки тому +1

    Great that we can't see the slides. Gave up early on when I realized I would only see half the story.

  • @chevasit
    @chevasit 4 роки тому

    Very good

  • @smashu2
    @smashu2 6 років тому +10

    Stop thinking about particle like if it is little billiard ball but rather think about them as wave into fields and it is easy to understand why a wave can pass through a wall of wave or why a wave can occupy 2 place at the same time. It is only when you try to measure a particle that it appears to be at 1 place and appears to be point like. When you start to think everything seems like particle then everything seems like waves then everything seems like information.

  • @strwz
    @strwz 3 роки тому

    why don't scientists build subatomic detecting equipment (or close to this size limit) in order to get a closer look at all these quantum phenomenons?

  • @martinlagrange8821
    @martinlagrange8821 6 років тому

    The title is rhetorical in the extreme - I am a qualified Biochemist, and therefore instantly can give the answer - A BIG FAT YES ! The following classical examples apply - Photosynthesis, Vision, Hearing, Protein Folding, Flagella, Oxidative Phosphorylation (the source of all cellular energy with Photosynth)..and so many more. All Biochemists also need to be Chemists and Physicists, and Quantum Mechanics sufficiently to work with this process. The Copenhagen Interpretation is the basis of all life - which is to say, the interaction of Electron Shells ! So, this was a rather silly title.....and as I listened, it seemed a lecture that I could have given far better than the gentleman concerned !

  • @RobertsMrtn
    @RobertsMrtn 6 років тому +4

    I don't like being told that I can not understand quantum mechanics and I must simply accept it. The fact is that there has to be an explanation. So, what if time is actually two dimensional and quantum particles can move in both time dimensions but classical particles can only move in one? Once a quantum particle interacts with a classical particle it looses the ability to move in the second time dimension.

    • @RobertsMrtn
      @RobertsMrtn 6 років тому +2

      If a particle travels backwards and forwards in time and space, if we observe the particle, we would not conclude that it was traveling backwards and forwards in time, we would conclude that it was it was coming into and out of existence and appearing in several places at the same time. This is exactly what we see with quantum particles.

    • @hqlabz
      @hqlabz 6 років тому +1

      Nice theory but we already know that elementary quantum particles can travel in three dimensions because we observe them in three dimensions. Also if they where traveling in just 1 or 2 dimensions we would already know it because we are able to experience 1-4 dimensions.
      This question has already been answered.

    • @mickelodiansurname9578
      @mickelodiansurname9578 6 років тому +2

      RobertsMrtn There is an explanation but unfortunately its a probabilistic one. So there's a chance of x being the case ...let's say that probability is 0.23%. We can calculate the chance in advance. So what that means is that of 1,000,000 observations on average 2,300 of them will be in state x. That still will not tell you the state of any individual instance before taking a measurement.
      So if I give you a dice then there's a 16.667% chance of rolling a 6. You cannot however find out until you roll it. Before you roll the die its in all states possible 1,2,3,4,5 and 6.
      This does not include 7 though since its not a possible state.
      That probability does not rely on time, or space or any of the forces like gravity or electromagnetism right? So its basically outside the classical laws of physics.
      In the real case with actual quantum mechanics we humans just don't have the upstairs thinking kit to concieve of how this property of nature pans out at the quantum level. What we see is the macro level manifestation... The solid wall, the car, a rock etc. We basically can measure and use and manipulate the 2300 times out of the million. The other 997,300 times that nothing occurs we refer to as 'nothing' ... But technically its not.
      We then create models for this and we measure things and to us, being human, it looks as if a particle is entangled with another across vast distances, it looks like particles traverse barriers, it looks like more than one pattern on a wall. We can even explain it mathematically, but we can't understand it. That's not mother natures fault. She didn't create these laws for our amusement... We just don't have the right intellectual meat. But having said that a machine might very well have no issue with quantum mechanics conceptually. So Einstein was wrong, God really does play dice with the universe...lol.
      The irony of living in a world where humans are told by machines just to accept a thing...that the math agrees and is bourne out by demonstration. The problem lies not in the stars but in ourselves, and that we are just too dumb..lol.
      Its a little like you telling your dog not to bark at cats on the TV... But you know he just will never get it. But he'll go along with it after you tell him enough times.

    • @Death__Flash
      @Death__Flash 5 років тому

      What if? Waht if wath if? Ur questions nobody could answer. Use basic scientific method and find out bro. Lol

  • @francisdsouza4132
    @francisdsouza4132 3 роки тому +1

    Very nicely explained.
    It made me believe that we might have the Star Trek way of medicating ourselves when broken.

  • @badkitty3559
    @badkitty3559 6 років тому

    Nice scale showing how small things can go...
    but where is the scale showing how big things can go and where we humans are placed in that scale?
    Could there be a possibility of Milky way itself being some short of a organism and we humans just a part of its body exactly how we have organisms in our body but them have no idea whats going on out here where we living and out there where we call it space?
    I see a pattern going on here, there is always smaller and smaller and smaller "world" of things. So how can we be sure that we're the perfect sized organism?

    • @smiley235
      @smiley235 6 років тому

      I can’t answer your question about galaxies being organisms, but see this video for size comparison of everything from Planck length to the observable universe. ua-cam.com/video/kIiJZINJFiw/v-deo.html

  • @jonathanjollimore4794
    @jonathanjollimore4794 2 роки тому

    Life might be the only thing that can manipulate anti matter and time...

  • @daviddowden8350
    @daviddowden8350 3 роки тому

    Lost in the maze of facts, u see, but u cannot fathom! Yr ever learning, but u never come to the understanding

  • @MaxPainMSF
    @MaxPainMSF 6 років тому

    At 6:30 prof Al-Kahlili states that all over the world schools still teach the "mini solar system" model of the nucleus of an atom and then states that is wrong. Now for him to say that as a professor himself knowing that's a big statement to make how come the teaching, scientific and Academic community of the world still allows that to be taught?

    • @zagyex
      @zagyex 3 роки тому

      Well, it is not a big statement, it is known for ~100 years. It is just an easy approximation they teach.

  • @paxdriver
    @paxdriver 6 років тому +55

    Who thumbs down a quantum physics / biochemistry lecture by esteemed Jim al khalili?? How did you find this video in your feed? Lol the video was only just published today!

    • @yuriy6249
      @yuriy6249 6 років тому +10

      Dude, downvotes are not for lecture itself, it's really great as well as Jim himself! Downvotes are for bad quality and not professional camera man, how can I percieve lecture if I can't see slides on the screen normally?!!!

    • @hellfrost333
      @hellfrost333 6 років тому +2

      Who ever down-voted the video is probably team Bohr,
      And doesn't wanna be exposed for their ignorance.

    • @thinkfloyd2594
      @thinkfloyd2594 6 років тому +4

      I, eh, downvoted, eh, for the speaker, eh, says eh, about eh, 30 times in the eh, first eh, minute and eh, half.

    • @mickelodiansurname9578
      @mickelodiansurname9578 6 років тому +1

      Kristopher Driver statistically there are bound to be folks that intend to click like but end up accidentally clicking dislike... The question is of the 14 dislikes so far what proportion are accidental. PLUS the same could be the case the other way around. I'd have no idea how someone that dislikes science would find this video in their feed though.
      Plus as one commenter pointed out we would like to see the slides too, and this university needs better media students badly.

    • @mickelodiansurname9578
      @mickelodiansurname9578 6 років тому

      Yeah John you have a point.... it is after all free. I'd bet a cheeseburger it wasn't free for the live audience though!

  • @samo4003
    @samo4003 6 років тому

    I googled "stuart hammeroff roger penrose quantum mind hypothesis discredited" but could not find anything substantial.

    • @mickelodiansurname9578
      @mickelodiansurname9578 6 років тому

      Sam O if you look up the original paper, say on Google scholar. Well, you'll find it's citations. Many of those citations will be folks answering that very queation. I think Google scholar allows you to search just the citations of a given paper... Not sure though.

    • @samo4003
      @samo4003 6 років тому

      Did a search in Google Scholar as suggested. Other than the criticism by Stenger, whose criticism was itself criticised, I don't see others.

    • @mickelodiansurname9578
      @mickelodiansurname9578 6 років тому

      Sam O hmmm well it'll have a h-score..
      Not to be confused with Penrose's personal h-score which is currently in the stratosphere somewhere.
      But as feynman once repeated... "It doesn't matter who you are, or what you name is, or how famous you are... If it doesn't match experiment then its wrong."
      I'm paraphrasing there BTW.
      The idea machines can be aware because quantum event are random and a CAS will just lead to awareness has some flaws... Not least of which is you and I lose our awareness every night and become automatons.
      Same quantum effect, same brain, same neurons...same system...different outcome.
      But if you found Penrose was not authoritively criticized then Dr. Jim there is wrong. It wouldn't be the first time, it won't be the last.
      Personally I'd ignore Penrose in this idea. Physicist he is, philosopher he is not.
      Although if anyone can create a machine, with simulated or real quantum events in it neural net that's aware of its 'self' then fair enough. It'd back Penrose's assertion of quantum and consciousness being somehow interdependent... Plus it'd tell us it can be replicated and its not all its cracked up to be.

    • @samo4003
      @samo4003 6 років тому

      I am not on any one side in this issue. But as far as I am concerned, if you wish to criticize someone, you have to provide the basis of your criticism and allow your criticism to be subjected to proper criticism as well just as Victor Stenger did. What I find disturbing is for someone with stature to publicly claim something as having been discredited without pointing to at the very least the sources of valid criticisms.

    • @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885
      @voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885 6 років тому +1

      I've corresponded with Stuart Hameroff - and another scientist who corroborated his research with Penrose. They figured out the secret.

  • @carlhopkinson
    @carlhopkinson Рік тому

    Well, the Quantum Eraser Experiment seems to violate Causality....so it easy to understand why some physicists might want to look deeper for explanations.

  • @kenhill5646
    @kenhill5646 4 роки тому +2

    Just have to say ,not good camera work
    Would have like to have seen the diagrams .
    No need to follow Jim around the stage.

  • @fabslyrics
    @fabslyrics 4 роки тому +1

    of course quantum mechanics effects in biology or in any field for that matter, triggers controversies pushing everyone in science and politics out of their comfort zone often at the borders of their respective hard earned kingdoms and ownership, who would give up on a deterministic outcome ... or income... for a probabilistic one... for just the sake of scientific truth and its disturbing consequences.

  • @rajnigupta3187
    @rajnigupta3187 Рік тому

    If body after death dissolves in the matter then convert into atoms and still active.