Bell's Theorem: The Quantum Venn Diagram Paradox

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    This video is about Bell's Theorem, one of the most fascinating results in 20th century physics. Even though Albert Einstein (together with collaborators in the EPR Paradox paper) wanted to show that quantum mechanics must be incomplete because it was nonlocal (he didn't like "spooky action at a distance"), John Bell managed to prove that any local real hidden variable theory would have to satisfy certain simple statistical properties that quantum mechanical experiments (and the theory that describes them) violate. Since then, GHZ and others have managed to extend the theoretical work, and Alain Aspect performed the first Bell test experiment in the late 1980s.
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    And thanks to Evan Miyazono, Aatish Bhatia, and Jasper Palfree for discussions and camaraderie during some of the inception of this video.
    REFERENCES:
    John Bell's Original Paper: inspirehep.net/record/31657/fi...
    Quantum Theory and Reality: www.scientificamerican.com/me...
    "What Bell Did" By Tim Maudlin: arxiv.org/pdf/1408.1826
    Bell's Theorem on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27...
    2015 experimental confirmation that QM violates Bell's theorem: arxiv.org/pdf/1508.05949.pdf
    journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
    Bell's Theorem without Inequalities (GHZ): dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.16243
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  • @user-wg8hq7nw5c
    @user-wg8hq7nw5c 4 роки тому +8446

    Universe: can we have math please?
    Quantum physics: we have math at home
    Math at home: 15+15=50

    • @ekoaji1972
      @ekoaji1972 4 роки тому +158

      Quantum physics alaways make me laught, cause i don't understan it XD

    • @ingerechtannon2471
      @ingerechtannon2471 4 роки тому +50

      That is common concealed core math

    • @balakrishnanganesan2511
      @balakrishnanganesan2511 4 роки тому +9

      500th like

    • @prestonang8216
      @prestonang8216 4 роки тому +91

      Professor : The test is easy
      The test : 15+15=50

    • @ElZedLoL
      @ElZedLoL 4 роки тому +108

      Actually it's 15+15*0.85=50

  • @frankmedrisch7451
    @frankmedrisch7451 4 роки тому +5212

    There is an 85% chance you will not understand this video if you watch it once, and a 100% chance if you watch it twice

    • @hyhena-gaming9986
      @hyhena-gaming9986 4 роки тому +297

      But a 0% chance if you watch it 3 times, and 15% if 4, then .01% if 5

    • @Gr3nadgr3gory
      @Gr3nadgr3gory 4 роки тому +315

      @@hyhena-gaming9986 I've watched it 100 times, and I think I understand baking now.

    • @billkrystallakis546
      @billkrystallakis546 4 роки тому +84

      Your statement can be true :p 85% didn't understand. Then that same 85 watched twice (because if you understood you wouldn't watch again) and still didn't understand so 100% is true.

    • @LuisAldamiz
      @LuisAldamiz 4 роки тому +37

      It all depends of the polarization of your mental filters in fact.

    • @claudiomarvel
      @claudiomarvel 4 роки тому +80

      @@Gr3nadgr3gory I've watched it 12 times and now I can play a guitar.

  • @mcgowantoombs851
    @mcgowantoombs851 Рік тому +638

    I saw this video when it first came out and thought it was really interesting, now I’m in college and just finished taking classes over quantum physics and laser physics and I actually recognize/understand a lot of the concepts and math here which is so cool to me! Thanks for inspiring younger me to go into physics!

    • @klimmensus6962
      @klimmensus6962 Рік тому

      This video is only 5 yrs old

    • @michalkiwanuka938
      @michalkiwanuka938 Рік тому +22

      @@klimmensus6962 he was 14 , now19

    • @invtrk1046
      @invtrk1046 Рік тому +5

      Great comment to read. Well done

    • @aurelia8028
      @aurelia8028 11 місяців тому +1

      Me too man. I saw this video when I was, like, 15 and understood jack shit of any of this, but now after haven taken both a EM, QM and an optics course I just can't see what's paradoxical here

    • @amihart9269
      @amihart9269 6 місяців тому

      This video is horrible and is incredibly ideological. You should actually read John Bell, he was frustrated with people like MinutesPhysics misrepresenting his own theorem. Bell had argued that it is not an appropriate conclusion to draw from his theorem that there are no hidden variables. In his original paper where he proposed the theorem called "On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox" he makes it clear in the conclusion that the theorem only implies that if hidden variables exist, they would have to have nonlocal effects on each other, which the video just dismisses this idea calling it "crazy" without giving any explanation as to why.
      You might think dismissing hidden variables and thus nonlocality is a good conclusion due to Occam's razor, but John Bell criticized this argument. He wrote a paper called "Against Measurement" where in it he shows that even if you assume no hidden variables, this doesn't solve the EPR paradox because it just introduces a new paradox these days called the Measurement Problem. This means that if you try to solve the EPR paradox by assuming that hidden variables don't exist, you just open up a brand new problem elsewhere, and so it's not inherently simpler.
      John Bell would then go onto write another paper called "On the Impossible Pilot Wave" where in it he argues that that potential theories for how to explain quantum effects using nonlocal hidden variables already exist, using the pilot wave theory as an example. He also in it expressed frustration that people were not taking it seriously, that nobody had ever mentioned pilot wave theory to him and it's never discussed in textbooks, as if people were trying to sweep it under the rug. Bell would then go onto work on pilot wave theory and tried to develop it.
      According to MinutePhysics, John Bell, the guy who made the theorem, is "crazy!" Or maybe MinutePhysics just doesn't understand what the actual theorem shows and is just regurgitating talking points he heard elsewhere, since he does not address any of John Bell's arguments against his interpretation of Bell's theorem other than dismissing them as "crazy."

  • @diverse1469
    @diverse1469 Рік тому +160

    I loved this video and occasionally watch it. It is also the subject of the 2022 Nobel physics prize and one of if not the best explanations of it I've seen so far. By the way, the contributor of the last paper shown as an example of the studies about the bell theorem is the Nobel Laurette Anton Zeilinger. I really hope this video gets more watch man, thanks a lot!

    • @lukeno4143
      @lukeno4143 Рік тому +3

      It’s a crap explanation. You don’t even need polarisation to explain it. Just complicates it. See Bringing home the atomic world: Quantum mysteries for anybody

    • @DanClark_ddc
      @DanClark_ddc 8 місяців тому

      ​@@lukeno4143The paper you referenced www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/scientists/mermin/Mermin_short.pdf
      is far less intuitive than sunglasses, my dude.

    • @amihart9269
      @amihart9269 6 місяців тому

      This video is horrible and is incredibly ideological. You should actually read John Bell, he was frustrated with people like MinutesPhysics misrepresenting his own theorem. Bell had argued that it is not an appropriate conclusion to draw from his theorem that there are no hidden variables. In his original paper where he proposed the theorem called "On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox" he makes it clear in the conclusion that the theorem only implies that if hidden variables exist, they would have to have nonlocal effects on each other, which the video just dismisses this idea calling it "crazy" without giving any explanation as to why.
      You might think dismissing hidden variables and thus nonlocality is a good conclusion due to Occam's razor, but John Bell criticized this argument. He wrote a paper called "Against Measurement" where in it he shows that even if you assume no hidden variables, this doesn't solve the EPR paradox because it just introduces a new paradox these days called the Measurement Problem. This means that if you try to solve the EPR paradox by assuming that hidden variables don't exist, you just open up a brand new problem elsewhere, and so it's not inherently simpler.
      John Bell would then go onto write another paper called "On the Impossible Pilot Wave" where in it he argues that that potential theories for how to explain quantum effects using nonlocal hidden variables already exist, using the pilot wave theory as an example. He also in it expressed frustration that people were not taking it seriously, that nobody had ever mentioned pilot wave theory to him and it's never discussed in textbooks, as if people were trying to sweep it under the rug. Bell would then go onto work on pilot wave theory and tried to develop it.
      According to MinutePhysics, John Bell, the guy who made the theorem, is "crazy!" Or maybe MinutePhysics just doesn't understand what the actual theorem shows and is just regurgitating talking points he heard elsewhere, since he does not address any of John Bell's arguments against his interpretation of Bell's theorem other than dismissing them as "crazy."

    • @bolognious2263
      @bolognious2263 9 годин тому

      ​@@lukeno4143ok undergrad

  • @dannymendiola
    @dannymendiola 3 роки тому +1111

    Love the peaceful music while you light my brain on fire

    • @mrpersonguy7286
      @mrpersonguy7286 2 роки тому +10

      One time I cooked with habaneros and used the restroom without washing my hands and I lit something else on fire

    • @sagarsapre9087
      @sagarsapre9087 2 роки тому +9

      hate the annoying music while you light my brain on fire

    • @dannymendiola
      @dannymendiola 2 роки тому +2

      @@sagarsapre9087 Cool! Thank you Sagar Sapre.

    • @lolmanittakesguts
      @lolmanittakesguts 2 роки тому +1

      Seriously this video just broke my brain

    • @ishworshrestha3559
      @ishworshrestha3559 2 роки тому

      Okie

  • @trumanburbank6899
    @trumanburbank6899 4 роки тому +729

    The second time watching this video, I tilted my head 90 degrees -- and forgot everything.

    • @christiancastruita9053
      @christiancastruita9053 4 роки тому +9

      photons are units, so if I made a really dim light, instead of the light getting dimmer and dimmer, eventually it will just hit in as single photons less and less often. Bell's inequality is sort of how it takes more gas to drive the same distance in less time. When you have three polarizers 22.5 degrees apart, more photons come through than two 45 degrees apart; the photons do not have to change their polarization as much in each step, so it would take less energy, but since photons are quantum, they get through less often instead of having less energy. It is analogous to carrying a pile of bricks, if I asked 100 students to carry 100 bricks 50 yards in a single trip, no one would be able to do it, but if I allow more trips, more people will be able to do it, if there is no limit to the trips everyone can do it.

    • @jojo29214
      @jojo29214 4 роки тому +1

      @@christiancastruita9053 100 people to carry 100 bricks 50 yards in one run?

    • @hozelda
      @hozelda 3 роки тому +2

      Their argument (and Bell's) seems flawed.
      Say we know that from position A a robot can shoot a basketball into a hoop hung at B 12 feet away 85% of the time (or symmetrically from B to A at 85% also).
      From position B the robot can shoot to position C 12 feet away from B also with 85% success (or from C to B at 85% also).
      Also, experiments and theory have shown the robot can shoot from A to C 50% of the time. [note we haven't said where C is relative to A]
      Say we carry out an experiment analogous to the description in the video: Two similar robots decide if they will both go to position A or position B except that one goes to one part of earth and the other to the opposite part of the planet. (the two courts are set up the same way as goes A B and C etc.)
      The experimenters recording the data at the two locations can't beforehand see where the robots position themselves, but they can independently at the same time direct the nearby robot to shoot at A, B, or C. Once the robots shoot, the experimenters will know the positions and can record hit/miss and tally %s over many trials with many new sets of robots. Later they compare notes. They find the 85% and 50% (and 100%) hit rates mentioned in the video, depending on where shoots were taken.
      Now, this experiment was not with quantum particles but just like the eye glasses and beards in the video, we can use it as an analogy to explain the set theory.
      Except that the Venn diagrams apply to properties that presumably can both be true at a moment. But this is not true for these experiments. The particles cannot go through multiple filters and start in multiple states (that was the first half of the video and it was a flawed argument). Same for the robots, each pair of robots goes to exactly one location and shoots exactly once. It's only when tallying many such trials that we can see the overall effect (like when we see an interference pattern through slits).
      So we come to the flaw: even though the set logic implies properties like beards and eye glasses must obey the constraints and cannot be at the 50% level (.85*.85>.5) -- this limitation follows because set logic includes transitive law, for example -- with the experiments we cannot link the AC polarizer filtering (or shooting) to the AB and BC cases the same way because the latter would take 2 shots. The AC details are not implied by AB and BC. If the robot shoots from A to B and then shoots from B to C, we can bound the odds they make both shots (.85*.85). That is what the Venn diagram says. BUT we CANNOT bound a single shoot from A to C by knowing AB, BC. To show how silly it would be to try, we never specified where C was. If C is 2 feet from A (ABC as a triangle), then AC % would be very high. On the other hand if the robots aren't that strong and if C was 12 ft from A, then AC might be 0%.
      The point is that we cannot put tight bounds on AC, hidden variables or not, based on AB and BC results. It's more than conceivable that a particle might easily slip through an opening at 22.5 degrees from its position yet have a very difficult time going through a 45 degrees adjustment, for example. And this has nothing to do with hidden variables or for that matter quantum mechanics (we can see that macroscopic waves can have interference patterns and other quantum wave properties).
      Conclusion: the Venn diagram argument puts bounds on a third result that can follow transitively from two other results (ie, all be true at once), but it can't put a limit on a third action (going from A to C) based on two other distinct actions (AB, BC). After all, going from A to C likely doesn't follow the path taken from A to B and then from B to C any more than shooting a basketball from A to C is done by shooting at basket B and then getting the ball to go back up in the air after going through the B hoop but without hitting the ground -- ridiculous. How can we conclude Bell was correct? The video and Bell made a valiant effort to preserve the Copenhagen interpretation, but that needs to die. It's the 21st century for goodness sake.
      [In both related and unrelated news, Schrodinger's "cat" is either dead or alive, not both or neither, IMO]

    • @ContentCalvin
      @ContentCalvin 3 роки тому +1

      My dog died in 07 RIP Kitty

    • @ObiWanBockobi
      @ObiWanBockobi 3 роки тому

      Well duh, when you turned your head 90 degrees all the information fell out of your head.

  • @dragonuv620
    @dragonuv620 Рік тому +29

    13:35... Hey that guy Anton Zellinger got the Nobel prize today!

  • @petertrahan9785
    @petertrahan9785 Рік тому +146

    What if the filters are changing the orientation photons that pass through them? A photon that passes through A but does not pass through C might suddenly be able to pass through C after passing through B if B changes the orientation of the photon just enough to make it able to pass through C.

    • @Alkimi
      @Alkimi Рік тому +28

      that's what I was thinking. but the experiment with entangled photons seems to negate this possibility, I think?
      But I don't know how that experiment was done. the video just suggests that it has been done.

    • @AveryHyena
      @AveryHyena Рік тому +8

      It does, but not physically. It's the act of observing that does it, not the filters themselves physically.
      The filters themselves cannot change the orientation of the photons, only block them.

    • @Alkimi
      @Alkimi Рік тому +41

      @@AveryHyena arrr you sure? because, a mirror or a prism change the orientation of light that gets reflected or refracted, why wouldn't a polarizing lens be able to do so? Then the classical solution makes perfect sense.

    • @AveryHyena
      @AveryHyena Рік тому +7

      @@Alkimi Because all a polarizing lens does is block light. You suggesting mirrors or prisms and then saying "so why wouldn't a polarized lens be able to do so?" makes no sense. They're completely different things that have nothing to do with each other. It's like you're saying "apples grow on trees, so why wouldn't a cat be able to do so?".
      Also, that's not the kind of orientation we're talking about here. We're talking about the orientation of the photons, not the classical direction of where the light is shining from.

    • @Alkimi
      @Alkimi Рік тому +26

      @@AveryHyena you misunderstood. i wasn't referring to the direction of the light radiation, I was referring to the polarization, is that not the "orientation" we're talking about? It has 180° of range, and then there's a phase variance. When light is reflected, the direction changes of course, but it is also polarized to an angle perpendicular to the plane of incidence. That's why polarizing filters get rid of reflections. A mirror was a bad example since it's reflecting all light in all directions, I meant the reflections in a window, they get "polarized by reflection" according to Brewster's Law.

  • @iquemedia
    @iquemedia 6 років тому +3527

    This is like 17 episodes of minutephysics in 1

    • @Daniel-rk2qz
      @Daniel-rk2qz 6 років тому +24

      no wonder if lost attention since i can only pay attention for 1 min at a time

    • @kyzf
      @kyzf 6 років тому +17

      That explains the smoke coming out of my ears.

    • @Querez8504
      @Querez8504 6 років тому

      Thue Morse 17.34*

    • @DanielVidz
      @DanielVidz 6 років тому +4

      more like 14 episodes the rest is just an ad.
      well each ep has is own ad so i'll let you do the math.

    • @slice-the-pi
      @slice-the-pi 6 років тому +11

      Querez 17.57*

  • @Bless-the-Name
    @Bless-the-Name 4 роки тому +742

    IRS: Your accounts don't balance.
    Company: Turn the Balance Sheet 45°

    • @chiliflis8660
      @chiliflis8660 3 роки тому +2

      Exactly 500 likes? I couldn't ruin this perfection...

    • @chiliflis8660
      @chiliflis8660 3 роки тому

      I have sad now :(

    • @argr4sh
      @argr4sh 3 роки тому +1

      we did, but we put a third sheet at 22.5° inbetween

    • @ichbinthor
      @ichbinthor 3 роки тому

      HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!

    • @timothymclean
      @timothymclean 22 дні тому

      Speaking as an accountant: Financial reports are largely unaffected by the laws of physics and most university-level mathematics. Both US GAAP and IFRS seek to create a system which ignores Gödel's incompleteness theorems (as a side effect of preventing technically-legal financial chicanery).

  • @user-xn8wg6yw7g
    @user-xn8wg6yw7g 3 місяці тому +6

    This is much better than other explanations because it explains the main idea. Take this video as a great heuristic explanation. It doesn't pay to get stuck on the details of polarization filters and what could be going on inside them...
    What these creators do so well: They try to make the whole scenario intuitive rather than stuffing everything into equations and relying on mysterious integral tricks and suddenly pull a rabbit out of a hat. That's the style I was used to from undergrad physics.
    Thank you, keep up the great work.

  • @Sean-yt1jn
    @Sean-yt1jn Рік тому +93

    This feels like the sort of puzzle you encounter in a phone game that makes you go "this is dumb it's not possible" but there's always an answer. There is always an answer

    • @DJ-Brownie-UK
      @DJ-Brownie-UK Рік тому +1

      answer me this It is regarded that an Upwards direction is a higher place; towards what is above. To a higher figure or amount. Towards something which is higher in order, larger, superior etc. If you was asked to point your arms UP in the air , every person would do just that so why do we subconsciously say when travelling or moving Northwards as "up north" " Hi Im Jock and Im from way up in the scottish highlands "and Southwards "down south" "I drove my car all the way down to cornwall from london today to lizard point the most southerly point in th UK and Why is it Australia known universally as "down under" because according to the planet upwards is skywards , and downwards is into the earth ,also north, east , south and west on a sea journey would equal to Bow - Straight Ahead (Forwards, Bowled[cricket] ) , Astern or Stern (meaning From the rear or behind ,Not Backwards as boats cannot travel in reverse/Backwards) Port (to the left) and Starboard (to the right), also according to Science The Zenith is the highest point on a sphere and The Nadir is the opposite from a fixed earth point, but from MY own personal perspective my zenith (directly above my head) is unique to my own flesh and blood , everywhere where I go my Zenith and my Nadir go with me.

    • @DJ-Brownie-UK
      @DJ-Brownie-UK Рік тому

      T Ti ⟂ iT π Pi⫫ iP Itiptipi EYE PITY IT

    • @flatline-timer
      @flatline-timer Рік тому +5

      @@DJ-Brownie-UK man whose supply are you smokin

    • @TheGsView
      @TheGsView Рік тому

      And what about dimensional movement relative to the dimensional state of the matter under consideration? Can you have quantum entanglement between dimensions that explain directional movement of light?

    • @DJ-Brownie-UK
      @DJ-Brownie-UK Рік тому

      @@flatline-timer there is no need to hostile, if my comment triggered your response and then was too difficult for you to comprehend, that is purely your personal issue, so please do not project that old gaslighting technique onto myself with your intention to smear my character with the "druggy" stigmatta

  • @imalenke4181
    @imalenke4181 4 роки тому +756

    Channel- minutephysics
    Video- 17 minutes

    • @Arkturium
      @Arkturium 4 роки тому +57

      And every minute of it was physics
      Technically correct :D the best kind of correct

    • @tolep
      @tolep 4 роки тому +21

      Noone says "one minute"

    • @i0xhex22
      @i0xhex22 4 роки тому +12

      Everything is relative

    • @bachlamtung5131
      @bachlamtung5131 4 роки тому +2

      mind - blown
      hotel - trivago

    • @Brickman179
      @Brickman179 4 роки тому +3

      It’s physics man. They don’t care how long it is because of relativity theory lol 😂

  • @ChaseCrossing
    @ChaseCrossing 3 роки тому +1760

    I heard they're patching this in the universe v2.0 update

    • @asandax6
      @asandax6 3 роки тому +69

      The 22nd Century DLC will be awesome even though some of us won't be able to play anymore

    • @tiget8627
      @tiget8627 2 роки тому +28

      Yes, and I heard that they’re preparing to reset the universe to prepare for this update

    • @StanHowse
      @StanHowse 2 роки тому +28

      When's that coming?? Has it reached Beta yet? It better not have as many bugs as this launched with.

    • @nos8795
      @nos8795 2 роки тому +6

      Ya just fixing bugs

    • @nos8795
      @nos8795 2 роки тому +3

      Mith take some decades

  • @TheJorgVideos
    @TheJorgVideos Рік тому +32

    I've got some kind of issue at 5:00
    We have the 45° blocking 50% of light, no problem here.
    Then the 22.5° appart ones above:
    In the video we have
    100% light comming in (btw 100% light isn't comming out of A but for the sake of the example lets consider it 100 for the rest of the manipulation), then 85% out of lens B, to finaly 70% out of C. 100-15-15=70
    But as far as I understand, the light filtering probability happens independently between two filters and not a whole set.
    Therefore the calculation should be
    100% - 15% between A and B
    Then again 100% (of what is left after B) - 15% between B and C (A and B have 22.5° diff and same for B and C)
    Since we know 85% is left after going through B we can extrapolate the result by converting the 15% of 100 to a "15%" of 85%: 15*85 / 100 (cross product) 12.75
    So in the end we have 100-15-12.75 = 72.25% left out of C
    Even though A and C have 45° diff, because of the presence of B at 22.5° the filtering probability is "reset" and therefore has a different result than just going through C directly.
    This is my personal understanding and could be flawed. I haven't seen the rest of the video as posting this so I don't know yet if this is addressed later on.

    • @aaronrdaniels
      @aaronrdaniels Рік тому +12

      Commenting to get a notification if anyone comes to prove you wrong. I really appreciate people like you in comment sections. Thank you for taking the time to not cut corners and write your thoughts out in full detail, and being venerable to being wrong

    • @fiddylmao
      @fiddylmao Рік тому +2

      @@aaronrdaniels same here

    • @iplay9s
      @iplay9s Рік тому +8

      The probability resetting idea is much like saying you have a 50% change of flipping 200,000 tails in a row since each flip does not depend on the previous result and the probability is "reset". I do agree with the 72.25 though.
      In an experiment with 200 photons, 3 filters, and perfect probability: 100 pass A, 85 pass B, and 72.25 pass C.
      With only 2 filters: 100 pass A, 50 pass C.
      Therefore filter B changed 22.25 photons from being C-blocked to being C-passed. The answer to the mystery lies in how polarization and filtering affects photons and their angle and the fact that a photon does not need to be 100% aligned with a filter to pass even with perfect theoretical filters.

    • @insu_na
      @insu_na Рік тому +3

      @@iplay9s This. Because if it was any other way the order of the filters wouldn't matter. But it does. No information is learned from this experiment at all... I really don't know why some people see it as proving or disproving anything other than confirming the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle...

    • @aaronrdaniels
      @aaronrdaniels Рік тому +6

      @@insu_na yeah ur right my bad for not being familiar with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and asking a question so I could learn.

  • @luke_fabis
    @luke_fabis Рік тому +9

    Intuitively, it feels like the polarizing filter doesn't just block light of a different polarity, but also aligns light that does manage to pass through to its own polarity. So, if, say, 50% of polarized light passes through a filter that's misaligned by 45°, then going 45° again should allow 25% of all light to pass.
    There has to be a mechanical analog that might support this idea. If you had some linkages (or perhaps cams, gears, or flexures) that moved in a wavelike pattern along one plane, and were perfectly rigid perpendicular to that plane, then you could expect them to move in perfect unison and have 100% power transmission (assuming negligible friction). If you could then misalign a portion of them radially, but keep them aligned axially, then it would be like you're constraining a portion of its vertical stroke, you're virtually shrinking the height of that linkage. The amount you're shrinking it by would not be linear; it would follow a cosine function. And the amount of power you're therefore able to transmit is also limited according to that function. Energy would be lost in the form of friction. Perpendicular means the mechanism jams, with zero power transmission, equivalent to cos(90°). It makes intuitive sense, because you're moving about a circle. If you introduce more stages that are only gently tilted relative to each other, then you should see more power transmission and less mechanical resistance, in proportion to the product of the cosines of their respective angles.
    Now, given that photons are quantized and cannot just have their energy reduced without also changing their wavelength, then reducing power transmission through polarizing filters must be probabilistic, and successfully passing through would mean a photon with a new polarity comes out the other side. But on a macroscopic scale, only X% of energy is being transmitted as if the amplitude of that light was constrained, and the polarity has been twisted. If you could have the light perfectly in phase, as in a laser, then effectively, you ARE decreasing the amplitude of light in exactly the same way as our mechanical analog. The energy lost would either be in the form of back reflection or heat.
    I don't know enough about quantum physics to understand if this somehow introduces a hidden variable, but it doesn't feel like it would. It's just some spooky dice rolls like any other quantum phenomenon.

    • @PragmaticAntithesis
      @PragmaticAntithesis Рік тому +3

      The problem comes with the entangled photons: How do the dice rolls get correlated when (thanks to relativity) they can't communicate.

    • @MichaelPodolsky-L
      @MichaelPodolsky-L Рік тому +1

      @Luke Fabis - You are 100% right, if a photon passes a polarizer, its polarization gets aligned accordingly and that gives a complete and correct explanation of the first experiment. As for a single photon passing a series of filters, this clip is a total misrepresentation of Quantum Mechanics.

    • @conquerorsbladestuff4316
      @conquerorsbladestuff4316 Місяць тому

      ​@@PragmaticAntithesis Look at 12:05 You suppose entanglement exists if you want to explain why photons appear to behave probabilistically, under the assumption they actually depend on a hidden variable. The hidden variable hypothesis could just be wrong, in which case entanglement does not exist and whether or not a photon gets absorbed by a polarized filter is entirely up to chance.

  • @aseth9541
    @aseth9541 6 років тому +2343

    17 minutes?
    That's some minute physics.

    • @dragonskunkstudio7582
      @dragonskunkstudio7582 6 років тому +65

      If you pas a minute through a filter it comes out to be 17 minutes... Quantum!

    • @robertfletcher3421
      @robertfletcher3421 6 років тому +47

      It's called time dilation, must have been recorded in an event horizon before the monkey fell in.

    • @Spiralem
      @Spiralem 6 років тому

      That's slightly over a dozen minutes physics

    • @GreedlingRush
      @GreedlingRush 6 років тому +8

      17 of them, to be precise

    • @schitlipz
      @schitlipz 6 років тому +18

      This video is WAY too convoluted, taking forever to explain nothing, over and over and over again.

  • @MAMAJUGO
    @MAMAJUGO 6 років тому +403

    Can't wait for next year's show: hourphysics

  • @sergevalet
    @sergevalet Рік тому +3

    I am so not used to Grant rushing his usually slow narrative in order to keep up with Henry. What a great video!

  • @GPCTM
    @GPCTM Рік тому +29

    2:05 "photons are waves".
    Well, that settles it.

    • @HH-ru4bj
      @HH-ru4bj Рік тому +2

      Photons are waves, so wave good bye to your sanity.

  • @JCavLP
    @JCavLP 6 років тому +676

    The longest minute of my life

    • @jackychen7769
      @jackychen7769 6 років тому +5

      What do you expect? It's minutesphysics now😝

    • @8948380
      @8948380 6 років тому +4

      no, it’s a synonym of smallphysics

    • @thstroyur
      @thstroyur 6 років тому +3

      We can only rue the wasted opportunity: this wasn't an epi on special relativity ;)

    • @qaedtgh2091
      @qaedtgh2091 6 років тому +1

      that's what she said

  • @baptistebauer99
    @baptistebauer99 3 роки тому +205

    Just a fun fact, the first person to have designed - and conducted - an experiment to show what is described at 9:10, was Allain Aspect. He had met with Bell, talked about it, and Bell told him to publish his idea. He later on got money and realized the described experiment.

    • @xXPoloPillowXx
      @xXPoloPillowXx Рік тому +17

      And he won a Nobel prize today!

    • @trucmuche8174
      @trucmuche8174 Рік тому +12

      Actually, this video and many others inspired me to study physics at university. And I'm now a phd student in Alain Aspect's group, doing experiments I coudn't even dream about!

    • @AlokKumar-tk1ty
      @AlokKumar-tk1ty Рік тому +3

      @@trucmuche8174 👍🏾🤘🚀

    • @MickyBrownEye1
      @MickyBrownEye1 Рік тому

      @@trucmuche8174 Serious question: (11mins.50secs) "There is literally no way to accurately represent all 3 of these proportions in a diagram like this".
      Why is it right to try to explain Bells' Inequality using a 2 dimensional diagram? Is it possible Bells Inequality becomes 'equal', or can be explained in another dimension.
      This is probably nonsense but......???

    • @amihart9269
      @amihart9269 4 місяці тому

      Fun fact: John Bell in his original paper "On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen paradox" did not conclude that his theorem debunks "hidden variables" but only states that if they exist it would imply nonlocal effects. Bell in his paper "Against Measurement" criticized the "no hidden variable" approach saying that it places too much emphasis on measurement (and thus observer) dependence and thus makes it impossible to imagine how the theory could be scaled up to large systems. He then, in his paper "On the impossible pilot wave," became a major contributor to Bohm's pilot wave interpretation, which posits that nonlocal hidden variables can explain quantum mechanics intuitively, and further Bell expresses his frustration in that paper that people aren't taking such ideas seriously. When you actually learn the history of Bell, you realize how bizarre it is that this video presents Bell's theorem as a disproof of hidden variables and then calls a nonlocal interpretation (which was Bell's own interpretation of his own theorem) as "crazy," not bothering to address any of Bell's arguments against it (or Einstein's, or Schrodinger's, etc).

  • @svenduytschaever8564
    @svenduytschaever8564 Рік тому +2

    I love these kind of explanations, great job and thank you!
    There are many things I don't understand, but the top one is at around 10:30, when 2 entangled photons are measured at the same time and different locations, especially the wording "photons passed through ... were blocked at ...".
    How I see this with my naïve self is like this: suppose there are 400 entangled pairs of photons in each test...
    - the AA case, only 200 pass through both sites through the A filter and 200 are blocked by both
    - the AB case, 200 pass through the A filter and 200 pass through the B filter at 22.5 degrees from A, but 30 that are blocked by A are passed at B and 30 blocked at B are passed at A
    - the BC case, 200 pass through the B filter and 200 pass through the C filter at 22.5 degrees from B (45 degrees from A), but 30 that are blocked by B are passed at C and 30 blocked at C are passed at B
    - the AC case, 200 pass through the A filter and 200 pass through the C filter at 45 degrees from A, but 100 that are blocked by A are passed at C and 100 blocked at C are passed at A
    The "quanta" nature of quantum physics is weird as hell, but the all or nothing aspect of it allows for my naïve explanation in my head - since many, many way smarter people than me have pondered over this for the past 85 years there certainly is something wrong with my explanation, I just can't put my finger on what... can anyone help me telling me where I'm mistaken?

  • @kadaj2k7
    @kadaj2k7 Рік тому +4

    Thank you very much for explaining this topic so well. It is easily one of my favourite videos!

  • @julianblind4624
    @julianblind4624 3 роки тому +361

    So if I’m understanding this correctly... if I like minute physics and wear glasses, but don’t have a beard and then decide to grow one, I will no longer need to wear glasses. Got it.

    • @fiaziqbal3279
      @fiaziqbal3279 2 роки тому +7

      Yeah! Something like that

    • @FosukeLordOfError
      @FosukeLordOfError 2 роки тому +5

      What if I already have a beard and glasses?

    • @js2010ish
      @js2010ish 2 роки тому +14

      @@FosukeLordOfError then you shouldnt be here watching minute physics unless op shaves

    • @michaelsanders8961
      @michaelsanders8961 Рік тому

      Not if you are blind.

    • @neonjoe529
      @neonjoe529 Рік тому +2

      Well, I think there’s a 15% chance you won’t need glasses…

  • @mateja176
    @mateja176 5 років тому +520

    This kind of videos makes UA-cam worth visiting.

    • @roar40s
      @roar40s 5 років тому +2

      You should have a look at this video: ua-cam.com/video/ZQAvVgnreWk/v-deo.html

    • @reelgangstazskip
      @reelgangstazskip 5 років тому +4

      These* kinds*

    • @ryanfranks9441
      @ryanfranks9441 5 років тому

      He is creating a sloped gradient change in the lights orientation because of inputting a middle glass. The 2nd glass orientates the light 22.5 degrees allowing the light to pass throw the 3rd glass filter with higher probability. It's not as weird as they are pretending it to be. Kinda like bouncing a basket ball off of the backboard to make the shot.

    • @reelgangstazskip
      @reelgangstazskip 5 років тому +1

      +Ryan Franks [citation needed]

    • @irrelevant_noob
      @irrelevant_noob 5 років тому +1

      Robert B what's the other kind(s) of videos? Why would Mateja's statement NEED to be pluralized? :-B

  • @StevanRivera-xf2rt
    @StevanRivera-xf2rt Рік тому +11

    Really great video! Enjoyed how you broke everything down! Could you maybe slow the pace a small amount so I can catch up next time? Hope you two collaborate more. I could listen to a podcast of you both discussing math and physics!

    • @amihart9269
      @amihart9269 6 місяців тому

      This video is horrible and is incredibly ideological. You should actually read John Bell, he was frustrated with people like MinutesPhysics misrepresenting his own theorem. Bell had argued that it is not an appropriate conclusion to draw from his theorem that there are no hidden variables. In his original paper where he proposed the theorem called "On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox" he makes it clear in the conclusion that the theorem only implies that if hidden variables exist, they would have to have nonlocal effects on each other, which the video just dismisses this idea calling it "crazy" without giving any explanation as to why.
      You might think dismissing hidden variables and thus nonlocality is a good conclusion due to Occam's razor, but John Bell criticized this argument. He wrote a paper called "Against Measurement" where in it he shows that even if you assume no hidden variables, this doesn't solve the EPR paradox because it just introduces a new paradox these days called the Measurement Problem. This means that if you try to solve the EPR paradox by assuming that hidden variables don't exist, you just open up a brand new problem elsewhere, and so it's not inherently simpler.
      John Bell would then go onto write another paper called "On the Impossible Pilot Wave" where in it he argues that that potential theories for how to explain quantum effects using nonlocal hidden variables already exist, using the pilot wave theory as an example. He also in it expressed frustration that people were not taking it seriously, that nobody had ever mentioned pilot wave theory to him and it's never discussed in textbooks, as if people were trying to sweep it under the rug. Bell would then go onto work on pilot wave theory and tried to develop it.
      According to MinutePhysics, John Bell, the guy who made the theorem, is "crazy!" Or maybe MinutePhysics just doesn't understand what the actual theorem shows and is just regurgitating talking points he heard elsewhere, since he does not address any of John Bell's arguments against his interpretation of Bell's theorem other than dismissing them as "crazy."

  • @christophedevos3760
    @christophedevos3760 Рік тому

    Very interesting, complex, but well explained. Thanks for sharing.

  • @josuedominguez770
    @josuedominguez770 4 роки тому +146

    I can't help but damn humanity for ever being curious enough to put two or three different sunglass lenses together.

    • @MorphRed
      @MorphRed 3 роки тому +4

      Someone tried to be very edgy by wearing a lot of sunglasses

    • @1SpudderR
      @1SpudderR 3 роки тому +2

      Josue Dominguez Yep How about 4...polarised lenses.....and then utilising a convex, concave, plain lenses, with camouflaging effect material! The problem with that was when I went for lunch I could not find the experiment when I came back. I put that down to time travel though!

    • @JoseRojasCh
      @JoseRojasCh 3 роки тому

      You know polarized glass was invented first and then used for sunglasses and not the other way around, right?. Like someone discovering polarized glass by playing with sunglasses.

  • @gregorydixon569
    @gregorydixon569 6 років тому +2830

    Longest minute of my life

    • @Ponk_80
      @Ponk_80 6 років тому +13

      Gregory Dixon seriously dude, find something better to do with your time, then being salty about the title of the video. geez man

    • @hugh6025
      @hugh6025 6 років тому +166

      Ponk 80
      It was a joke. geez man

    • @LuiKang043
      @LuiKang043 6 років тому +38

      I think you were near a huge gravitating body or travelling near c m/s.

    • @Xanderboof
      @Xanderboof 6 років тому +9

      Ponk 80 you mad?

    • @rays5163
      @rays5163 6 років тому +14

      Minute means small

  • @brianbeckman4982
    @brianbeckman4982 7 місяців тому

    The cosine square at 4:08 in the video comes from Malus's Law. The polarizer blocks the E field via cosine, but the transmitted energy, hence photon flux, is proportional to E squared.

  • @wayneyadams
    @wayneyadams 2 роки тому +1

    The wave explanation is mundane and easily understood. It's the particle theory of light that is interesting. I always enjoy doing the three polarizing filters with my students. What makes it so nice is that they have the items they need to do it at home. By the way, if you do not have enough polaroid sunglasses you can make a crude polarizing filter by stretching a piece of plastic wrap, like Saran Wrap.

  • @Superphilipp
    @Superphilipp 4 роки тому +330

    "This is weirder than you think."
    I don't know. How weird do you think I think it is?

    • @alanbarnett718
      @alanbarnett718 3 роки тому +9

      No, this is weirder than you CAN think!

    • @rickharper4533
      @rickharper4533 3 роки тому +2

      @Alan Barnett but is it weirder than how you think

    • @justinkeefe3456
      @justinkeefe3456 3 роки тому +1

      But I think even weirder

    • @worsethanyouthink
      @worsethanyouthink 3 роки тому +2

      The only wierd part I see is how the supposed math paradox arrives from ignoring one of the simplest observable possibilities

    • @minetech4898
      @minetech4898 3 роки тому

      @@worsethanyouthink what possibility is that?

  • @neilisbored2177
    @neilisbored2177 5 років тому +774

    Have incredibly tiny gnomes been ruled out?

    • @asoulbelow9373
      @asoulbelow9373 5 років тому +19

      NeilIsBored gnomes are what makes the genome 🧬

    • @BrianSpurrier
      @BrianSpurrier 5 років тому +32

      I think they’re testing that at the large hadron collider

    • @hirsutebodkin6888
      @hirsutebodkin6888 5 років тому +1

      I was going to make a lame joke about genomes but thought better of it

    • @kanrup5199
      @kanrup5199 5 років тому +1

      I like gnomes so I will say no.

    • @myloglaisek5718
      @myloglaisek5718 5 років тому +1

      WHERE ARE MY WEE MEN

  • @Negitar
    @Negitar Рік тому

    i love the visual for your chat at the end, so simple and clean and effective... oh yeah so cool video, interesting topic :D

  • @galdorofnihelm6798
    @galdorofnihelm6798 Рік тому +46

    Just a question, this might sound stupid, but can't the problem simply be that the photons get excited with the filter, then "de-excited" in another wavelength, so it would react differently the more filters it goes through.
    I'm not educated much in quantum physics just very basics, so I'm mostly asking why this isn't the case so I can understand

    • @aaronrdaniels
      @aaronrdaniels Рік тому +11

      Bump ⬆️ My brain immediately went the same place. Looking forward to someone’s reply proving both of us wrong. :)

    • @TheRetroEngine
      @TheRetroEngine Рік тому +4

      Bump ⬆️ Me too I wondered that very same thing.

    • @Kratokian
      @Kratokian Рік тому +12

      Biggest problem in the video, they wait to talk about entangled particles until 8:45 . Particles that are entangled act the same way, passing through b makes it more likely to pass through c, so if there is an 'excitement' answer, it transfers information faster than light (anti locality over anti realism)
      Entanglement on its own seems like an obvious anti locality problem, but there are a lot of other examples like how observation changes outcomes, or the uncertainty principle that make it muddier

    • @threestans9096
      @threestans9096 Рік тому +5

      also the direction of the filter could allow the protons to get more of a nudge. imagine driving a car on a race track, don’t touch the wheel, at some point the car will hit the wall and make the left turn regardless. This couldn’t happen if the track was a hard right angle. The car would hit the wall and stop.
      Maybe the car/photon is getting a nudge from the filters? there is a physics theory or whatever that says something like, a filter or sieve of a certain size will trap smaller particles than it’s supposed to be cause of minor pulls /clumping at the filter points. van der wall doesn’t sound right though.
      Anyway, maybe instead of the particles getting smashed into the filter, they get slightly angled the right way to be able to make it through the next filter?

    • @Halopend
      @Halopend Рік тому +2

      The assumption that things are “filtered” aka stopped is based on a physical understanding that things something moving up/down will be more likely to pass through a narrow slit oriented up/down…. But I think what you are saying is it will still pass through but with only the measurable effects in one direction. The other photons are just “invisible” to our measurements. When they hit the next filter, their orientation can be brought back into our visible space (aka, whatever we don’t see happening in extra dimensions is brought back to our space).
      On the surface, this feels like a possible violation of energy conservation within our known dimensions, but it also makes me wonder if there is some interactions between (now made invisible) particles in the extra dimensions.
      Leading to some of the oddness with FTL communication (since we wouldn’t have an understanding of how these extra dimensions Exist meaning perhaps ftl communication is possible aka wormhole theory only on a universal/fundamental level).
      Without fully understanding quantum mechanics, I’ve often thought there is a missing piece between our understanding of discrete/continuous (in the same way math gets weird at “orders of infinity”, or the walk from a to be b paradox where in some representations the distance between you and the end point gets smaller and smaller but you never actually get there).
      Not necessarily related, but could explain part of what’s broken with our current understanding.

  • @ContinualImprovement
    @ContinualImprovement 6 років тому +1314

    I don't normally make diagram jokes but Venn I do...

    • @ganaraminukshuk0
      @ganaraminukshuk0 6 років тому +40

      Plot twist: they're Euler diagrams.

    • @minecraftermad
      @minecraftermad 6 років тому +14

      there's 3 different kinds 1 thats funny 1 that's a pun and 1 that's kinda between

    • @ristopaasivirta9770
      @ristopaasivirta9770 6 років тому +99

      At first this joke didn't get through to me. Then I tilted my head 45 degrees and understood 85 percent of it.

    • @MrMegaPussyPlayer
      @MrMegaPussyPlayer 6 років тому +48

      @Risto Paasivirta ... you mean 22.5°. If you tilt your head 45° you understand half of it ... unless someone in front of you tilts their head 22.5°... then you understand 70%.

    • @minecraftermad
      @minecraftermad 6 років тому +3

      no... just no...

  • @Jacob-yg7lz
    @Jacob-yg7lz 2 роки тому +89

    I'm in a superposition of understanding this

  • @SystemicCreative
    @SystemicCreative Рік тому +3

    Great video. Love the Venn Diagram approach, it makes it much clearer than standard approaches as to what hidden variables are and how they are ruled out by the theorem.

    • @haroldnowak2042
      @haroldnowak2042 7 місяців тому

      The Venn Diagram is misleading when it comes to probabilities. The filters play an active role in the process that is not displayed. A single pair of entangled photons tells you very little about entanglement. Do the experiment with filters yourself and you will see what I mean.

  • @IdiotEarthworm
    @IdiotEarthworm Рік тому

    This is really a nice video which shows a complex aspect with simple presentation

  • @oatlord
    @oatlord 6 років тому +1666

    I'm sadly not smart enough to even be confused by this.

    • @CLONisKING
      @CLONisKING 6 років тому +22

      xD

    • @h1d34w4y
      @h1d34w4y 6 років тому +24

      like that vine, im jus like ":) okay"

    • @mattkilgore7323
      @mattkilgore7323 6 років тому +49

      If you're a physicist, maybe you can answer a question I had about this video: The "paradox" disappears if we assume that the middle lens can modify the light in some way that makes it more likely to pass through the third lens, but given that this wasn't mentioned, I'm assuming that it's not possible. Why not?

    • @tyholbrook7664
      @tyholbrook7664 6 років тому +8

      Matt Kilgore I'm with you here, I wanna know too

    • @brendanm7059
      @brendanm7059 6 років тому +8

      just remember that 15+15 doesnt equal 50

  • @bikedance689
    @bikedance689 4 роки тому +460

    i just want to make a "dark" room using those double layers as a wall to make it "black", and then if a person wears another glasses with that lens, he will be able to see outside the room😂
    really wanna try that🤣

    • @evelienheerens2879
      @evelienheerens2879 4 роки тому +16

      Maybe the light would filter into your eyes and then not into the rest of the room ;)

    • @lapidations
      @lapidations 4 роки тому +102

      That's an awesome idea, but the "third" filter must be placed in between the two others, the person's glasses would be a third filter after the two others, it would still be 100% dark

    • @bikedance689
      @bikedance689 4 роки тому +19

      @@lapidations damn i need to watch the video again, i havent paid much attention to it

    • @bikedance689
      @bikedance689 4 роки тому +2

      so, are there any sunglasses that can adjust the light that comes to the eyes by the user?

    • @ccc3
      @ccc3 4 роки тому +26

      If two polarizing filters block the light completely, adding a third one BEFORE or AFTER them will not magically reveal the blocked light.
      You need to insert the third one between the two to make the light visible.

  • @starshinewindlord2716
    @starshinewindlord2716 Рік тому

    the idea that adding an additional filter enlightens the result sounds almost more social than physics.
    Thanks guys, I loved this video.

  • @ghoulie11
    @ghoulie11 Рік тому +15

    The best explanation I can come up with is that the filters aren't transparent to each other. That is to say, Filter C doesn't "see" Filter A through Filter B. It can only interact with the photons after they make it through Filter B.

    • @haroldnowak2042
      @haroldnowak2042 7 місяців тому +2

      Kind of true. No photons get through any filter. They are all absorbed and new one are emitted. It is a sequential process not showing up in a Venn diagram.

  • @HouseholdDog
    @HouseholdDog 6 років тому +375

    Tries to understand quantum physics one more time.
    Head explodes.
    Back to cat videos for me.

    • @TheBobiaan
      @TheBobiaan 6 років тому +36

      check out schrodingers cat then

    • @MrMichaelsu
      @MrMichaelsu 6 років тому +24

      TheBobiaan shrodingers cat is a zombie cat that is both alive and dead until you look at it.
      But if you can look at it with a triple filter sunglasses from the movie They Live, you can see their lying reptilian eyes are secretly zombie eyes. And if you look closer you can see Michael Jackson doing the thriller dance leading a zombie cat uprising that is here to quantumly entangle us all!!!

    • @ronniep777
      @ronniep777 6 років тому +1

      Household Dog lol

    • @mcbusinessmonkey
      @mcbusinessmonkey 6 років тому +1

      Qantum is bullshit. Thats why your head hurts. It's your instincts battling the mind control. Go and study magnets. It won't hurt. Youll understand the universe very easily.

    • @mcbusinessmonkey
      @mcbusinessmonkey 6 років тому

      I will just add. Photos are not real. They are only theoretical. No one has ever give them a mass, there are no photographs. But they make the maths work...

  • @VampireJester
    @VampireJester 4 роки тому +203

    I love how youtube recommends this to me almost 2 years later.

    • @asherschmidt9820
      @asherschmidt9820 4 роки тому

      It's a trend... I get a few videos seven years recommended.

    • @CaucasainAsian
      @CaucasainAsian 4 роки тому +1

      Three years now

    • @LouisChiaki
      @LouisChiaki 3 роки тому

      3 years for me, after I leave my physics postdoc job.

    • @joerdim
      @joerdim 3 роки тому

      What's so special about that?

  • @rileyobrien2902
    @rileyobrien2902 6 місяців тому +4

    I have watched this video three times. Once on release, once a few years later, and now after having read the book Quantum. Now that I can finally grasp the concept, I have to say that this is one of the best videos I have seen on the platform period. I also love everything about the post video discussion.

  • @ChrisHanks_ColonelOfTruth
    @ChrisHanks_ColonelOfTruth Рік тому +1

    finally a COMPLETE explanation of the paradox! thank you :D

  • @Impatient_Ape
    @Impatient_Ape 5 років тому +610

    As a college educator, you eventually discover that that when teaching people about anything, your task is to convey information in a way that it easily "lubricates" entry into the mind, taking advantage of the cognitive aspects of how brains work. This can be hindered by a dozens of factors, one of which is when the speaker goes too fast. For as great as this video is in its method of using Venn diagrams to convey what a Bell inequality is, it goes too damn fast. Even though I have an advanced physics degree, and I already understand this topic pretty well, I still had to set the playback speed to 75% in order to be able to watch it without having to pause it. My interest in watching was two-fold. First, I wanted to see how 3B1B explains this topic, as he does such a great job with clever lucid explanations for so many other topics. Second, I was hoping that I might be able to refer my non-physics scientists to this video when they ask me about this topic. I can still recommend this video to them, but will have to tell them to set the playback speed to 75% or maybe even lower, which, unfortunately, ruins the audio. In fact, I'd have to say that even college math majors have to pause and rewind many of 3B1B's videos to "get" or process the content. I can usually watch those straight through without pauses or slowdowns. However, knowing the typical modern college student, I can say *with certainty* that most math and science students will not be able to watch this video without pausing and rewinding multiple times. The distraction culture that modern students have been raised in reduces their inclination to stick with learning something if it isn't presented to them in a way that they can consume without a lot of effort. Their loss. Thanks for your time.

    • @whatsascrewdriver5572
      @whatsascrewdriver5572 5 років тому +18

      The baby is sleeping, so the volume was turned down, the captions turned on, the video paused, and I stepped through the video with my arrow key caption by caption. Mostly concentrated on the captions, not so much on the diagrams. I saw a lot of effort spent defining the outcome of the assorted polarizing filters, but I didn't get any insight into how the quantum quandary works.

    • @Bear_0103
      @Bear_0103 5 років тому +11

      I was gonna read more but then I clicked read more

    • @gilgamesh777amg
      @gilgamesh777amg 5 років тому +8

      "Distraction Culture" lmao. That's the funniest thing i've heard in possibly my entire life.

    • @FelsNaptha
      @FelsNaptha 5 років тому +2

      TL/DR

    • @FelsNaptha
      @FelsNaptha 5 років тому +5

      Kidding. What you've written is dead-on.

  • @mastermclovin0
    @mastermclovin0 5 років тому +595

    Clearly the answer is it's all a simulation and this bug was shipped as a "feature"

    • @rudavalek
      @rudavalek 5 років тому +2

      mastermclovin 🤗

    • @JonesCrimson
      @JonesCrimson 5 років тому +17

      Universal Engine Code Obfuscation, but it won't stop us from making our reactionless engines!

    • @ObsceneSuperMatt
      @ObsceneSuperMatt 5 років тому

      @Harry Kiralfy Broe It just works.

    • @MrHurricaneFloyd
      @MrHurricaneFloyd 5 років тому +7

      The Universe is in beta test.

    • @trumpocalypsenow4654
      @trumpocalypsenow4654 5 років тому +2

      Humanity will colonize space with the equivalent of wall glitching in Halo.

  • @slycer10
    @slycer10 Рік тому +1

    Awesome collab! Please do some more. 😀👍

  • @shan_world_
    @shan_world_ 8 місяців тому

    This is so simple concept but you guys made it look so complicated!

  • @gregforgotmylastname2905
    @gregforgotmylastname2905 4 роки тому +1731

    God: "It's just a bug."

    • @arch4223
      @arch4223 4 роки тому +74

      Exactly

    • @Aufbleiben
      @Aufbleiben 4 роки тому +12

      @@arch4223 why have you forsaken me, in your heart forsaken me, in your mind FORSAKEN MEEEE OH

    • @tomwhipp3245
      @tomwhipp3245 4 роки тому +83

      It's not a bug, it's a feature!

    • @JamieAllen1977
      @JamieAllen1977 4 роки тому +38

      @@tomwhipp3245 easter egg

    • @justanotherhotguy
      @justanotherhotguy 4 роки тому +16

      Gonna fix it in the next update, sorry guys!

  • @cluckeryduckery261
    @cluckeryduckery261 6 років тому +532

    I am becoming increasingly convinced that quantum mechanics are just nature's way of fucking with us. Like nature just got bored one day and turned to its buddy and was like "Dude, check this out, the humans think they've got it figured out... let's see how they deal with 7 extra dimensions, quantum entanglement, and wave-particle duality!"
    Nature's Buddy: "Nice, but what if we also made 96% of all matter and energy in the universe completely undetectable unless yoi just look at how it interacts gravitationally... but then just to fuck 'em up more we'll hide the graviton!"
    Nature: "This is so gonna go viral."
    Bastards.

    • @feynstein1004
      @feynstein1004 6 років тому +8

      Lmao dude

    • @captainhog
      @captainhog 6 років тому +41

      Hahaha, you're not the first thinking about that.
      A quote from Douglas Adams, a sci-fi/comedy writer.
      “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
      There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
      ― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

    • @mikicerise6250
      @mikicerise6250 6 років тому

      *shrug* Whatever, universe. Empiricism ftw. ;)

    • @danteregianifreitas6461
      @danteregianifreitas6461 6 років тому +3

      This is so gonna go viral LMFAO

    • @TheRobster2007
      @TheRobster2007 6 років тому +3

      I like this duck's witty mind. Pretty handy to avoid going nuts. Like when I'd finally learned about physics and it being _everywhere_ , feeling great about my increased knowledge, and then discovering quantum mechanics. Grrrr.

  • @jacobopstad5483
    @jacobopstad5483 Рік тому

    I've been trying to wrap my head around this kind of stuff for over thirty years now. Thanks for trying! ;)

  • @calebstroup6917
    @calebstroup6917 2 місяці тому +1

    My theory is that a horizontal filter forces light to oscillate vertically. The second filter at 45 degrees, reorients the vertical light into components oscillating in a grid system that is transformed 45 degrees. Now that the components of the light are oscillating in a 45 degree orientation, when you pass it through a vertical filter, the vertical components of the 45 degree light is blocked, but the horizontal components of the 45 degree light are allowed through.
    I may be crazy, but I was not surprised by this video... it made perfect sense to me in my head before I even watched the video...

  • @lock_ray
    @lock_ray 6 років тому +59

    God the ending made me want a podcast with these two

    • @JM-us3fr
      @JM-us3fr 6 років тому +3

      Yes please! They worked so well together.

  • @ronnyshama
    @ronnyshama 3 роки тому +1147

    I'm just gonna call this magic & move on till we actually find the answer

  • @dominicdelprincipe2583
    @dominicdelprincipe2583 Рік тому

    I liked the 'plain-language' post video credits/comments/shoutouts section. Classy.

  • @bogoodski
    @bogoodski Рік тому

    I watched Arvin Ash's video that provided great context and general conceptual understanding of Bell's theorem and then the magical UA-cam algorithm directed me here to such a wonderful practical example that really drove home what I learned in the first video.

  • @roberthuttle
    @roberthuttle 6 років тому +42

    I shared this with one friend and we talked about it, I then shared it with another and then the first friend stated we never talked about it. Then after that conversation with the first friend, the second friend asked what we were talking about.

    • @natp8888
      @natp8888 5 років тому

      You sir are a comedic genius.

    • @rachelruff7221
      @rachelruff7221 5 років тому

      No way. Really.

    • @SametALTUNSOY
      @SametALTUNSOY 5 років тому

      You and your friends( if real) miss the point that actually mentioned in the video. You see, after you share dialoge that you had with your first friend( I really hope that you have that conversation with someone) you change past and now your second friend thinks you are crazy and you are crazy because you just killed your first imaginary friend just by sharing this info by your second imaginary friend but relax, its OK.
      Now you know why.

  • @gbear1005
    @gbear1005 4 роки тому +288

    Man: you can't confuse me
    Universe: hold my really big beer

    • @MikinessAnalog
      @MikinessAnalog 4 роки тому +6

      I do actually remember seeing a video on here somewhere that states there IS indeed a nebula composed entirely of alcohol or ethanol. Not lying.

    • @orionthewildhunt9173
      @orionthewildhunt9173 4 роки тому

      wow

    • @pressaltf4forfreevbucks179
      @pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 3 роки тому

      @@MikinessAnalog i don't think thats quite possible

    • @MikinessAnalog
      @MikinessAnalog 3 роки тому +1

      @@pressaltf4forfreevbucks179 phys.org/news/2014-09-alcohol-clouds-space.html#:~:text=Yes%2C%20there%20is%20a%20giant,isn't%20suitable%20for%20drinking
      oh really?

    • @7kortos7
      @7kortos7 3 роки тому +2

      @@MikinessAnalog I came here to write this exact thing haha. it's indeed true. though, in space, you can find just about anything.

  • @JathraDH
    @JathraDH Рік тому

    As a believer in simulation theory and a game developer I put these type of things into the "optimization glitch" category.
    Basically all the universe has to do is be lazy and not actually render particles/waves, or even particle/wave interactions until we look at them, which is exactly what we observe in the universe.
    In games this happens literally all the time. The game is only showing you exactly what you are looking at and typically not simulating things remotely accurately, especially when viewed at far distances, because it simply doesn't need to do so to present a "realistic" view to the user. When you get closer to an object it needs to show you more of the objects detail, but that detail is not remotely there at all when viewed from afar, it doesn't need to even be considered or even exist until we are viewing the object up close. Likewise anything you aren't directly looking at also doesn't need to exist at all until viewed or its presence (something hitting you from behind etc) needs to effect you.
    Observable reality functions exactly this way. At a macro level it behaves as "expected" but behaves entirely differently at a quantum level. I feel that there doesn't necessarily even HAVE to be a direct link between the quantum level and what happens when viewed from outside it and a lot of these things like entanglement, super position and all that don't even need to exist. They COULD exist only because we are struggling to come up with ways to link what happens at a quantum level directly to what we view at a macroscopic level assuming every single particle/wave interaction is actually happening in real time all over the universe.
    Reality could be much more simple however. These things simply could simply not exist at all, period, until we force the universe to show us something at that level of detail.
    Within 50-100 years we will be able to fully simulate perfect reality on our own computers that is 100% "good enough" when viewed outside a quantum level. If we can do it ourselves, who is to say it hasn't already been done many times over?

  • @1stRiggerChick
    @1stRiggerChick Рік тому

    Wow! Very well presented. Thank you.

  • @mickelodiansurname9578
    @mickelodiansurname9578 3 роки тому +171

    I remember doing this with three sunglasses lens when my daughter was about 7 showing her how weird it is.... And of course she wanted to know how the light could 'jump' though space and appear out of the third lens... Which obviously I can't explain in a way where a 7 year old doesn't stick a pen in my eye...
    It is amazing more people aren't aware of this.

    • @Ejeby
      @Ejeby Рік тому +1

      @Hagogs 😂

    • @MoonCowGaming
      @MoonCowGaming Рік тому +4

      @Hagogs oh do please elaborate. This should be entertaining.

    • @aaroncurtis8545
      @aaroncurtis8545 Рік тому

      We wouldn't want to teach our children to believe in the outcome of scientific experiments instead of what we want to believe, that would be terrible 😀

  • @maxfenby7228
    @maxfenby7228 3 роки тому +16

    When i click a video like this, i usually NEEED to understand what its talking abt, but in this case i just dont and its driving me up the wall. So thank you for using your perfectly clear language using words that i DEFINITELY understood

    • @BrightBlueJim
      @BrightBlueJim 3 роки тому +1

      That's because they don't actually make sense, here. The classical explanation for the three-polarizer problem is that as the light passes through each polarizer, both its amplitude AND its polarization change. These are two independent properties of a photon, but they're bringing in "entangled particles" for no good reason, muddying the water. Bottom line is, the video is Just. Plain. Wrong. Don't waste your time; find a better video to explain this.

  • @scottjones9973
    @scottjones9973 Рік тому +62

    I read that polarizing filters don’t just block photons with certain orientations, but also change the orientations of photons. Would that explain why a middle filter lets more light pass through? That the photons are sorta deflected (or tilted?) so that they can now pass through the third filter?

    • @anotherperspective8263
      @anotherperspective8263 Рік тому +1

      What is a photon?

    • @michaelpark1535
      @michaelpark1535 Рік тому +4

      Yes, that's totally true.

    • @tomkhinda2033
      @tomkhinda2033 Рік тому +17

      I think this is exactly right. If the photons are tilted/shifted/knocked/nudged rather than filtered/weeded out/sifted/blocked then there is no paradox, it's fully explained.

    • @PeterSvP
      @PeterSvP Рік тому +6

      Exactly. This is not paradox. Also these filters break the entanglement state immediately. Spooky action at a distance don't exist.

    • @johnao1353
      @johnao1353 Рік тому +5

      Yes, there's nothing weird for a single photon, but things get more interesting for entangled photon pairs. You can google for the Bell experiment, which is not explained in detail at 9:10 .

  • @SInkiHui1997
    @SInkiHui1997 Рік тому +6

    Thank you for this video. Really helped me to understand the findings that won the Nobel Price for Physics in 2022.

  • @daesikkim6368
    @daesikkim6368 6 років тому +56

    For those who think this video only overcomplicates the problem: The point is not to explain the phenomenon of light polarization itself, but to introduce the Bell's theorem by the example of light polarization.
    It is indeed much easier to understand polarizers using classical wave mechanics. However, today we know that light actually consists of energized particles named photons. Quantum mechanics explain this by applying the math of wave mechanics on each photon and saying each of them is in a superposition of eigenstates (x- and y-polarized) and each measurement (in this case passing each photon through filters) gives one of the eigenstates to a certain probability.
    This is very hard to accept in our classical macroscopic view and that's why Schroedinger's cat is so popular and some geniuses like Einstein tried to preserve the deterministic view of nature, e.g. using a hidden variable theory. What the Bell's theorem tries to say is that quatum mechanics isn't just insufficient to study these hidden variables, but both concepts are mutually exclusive.

    • @MsSomeonenew
      @MsSomeonenew 6 років тому +2

      Well if you introduce it with the wrong theory you loose the audience on that point, so don't fucking go there in the first place.

    • @StraightOuttaJarhois
      @StraightOuttaJarhois 6 років тому +3

      Then they probably shouldn't have focused so much on polarizing filters. I didn't even know about this phenomenon before watching the video, and it seemed perfectly obvious and intuitive to me that the filters don't just stop light, but also affect its polarity. Honestly they lost me about the time they went into the entanglement experiments, because they hadn't convinced me at that point that there was actually anything strange going on. But then I don't claim to get quantum physics.

    • @__-cx6lg
      @__-cx6lg 6 років тому +3

      StraightOuttaJarhois I don't think you understood the video. Why should three filters block _less_ light than two? The key thing to understand is that you can't have half a photon. That's what planck discovered, that's what experiments confirm, that's why quantum physics isn't classical.

    • @StraightOuttaJarhois
      @StraightOuttaJarhois 6 років тому +3

      __ _ No, I absolutely don't understand quantum physics. But light acts as both waves and particles, and if you look at it as waves it makes perfect sense that, if the filters don't just block light, but also align its polarity, an intermediate filter will increase transmission. The math checks out too.

    • @__-cx6lg
      @__-cx6lg 6 років тому +2

      StraightOuttaJarhois
      Please watch the first video (the one by 3blue1brown). It explains the math.
      What your saying makes sense in a classical world--the filter would just take the component of the vector aligning with the filter. But that doesn't happen in reality because _you can't have half a photon._ So sending diagonally polarized light through a vertically oriented filter _doesn't_ just absorb the horizontal component of the light while letting the verical component through, which is what you'd expect classically. Why? because it's magnitude would then be sqrt(2) (if the original photon was 1, by the Pythagorean theorem), which isn't allowed by quantum physics. Measurements confirm this---electromagnetic radiation is quantized.
      The first video explains all this in more detail, complete with clarifying animations.

  • @hafizazim2986
    @hafizazim2986 4 роки тому +86

    "that would be crazy" - continues to explain.

  • @tomkhinda2033
    @tomkhinda2033 Рік тому +2

    Very cool video! To resolve the paradox: thinking about it as if the photons are tilted/shifted/knocked/nudged rather than filtered/weeded-out/sifted/blocked makes it so there is no paradox, it's fully explained. No need for fancy entanglement or hidden variables. So the statement in 0:51 is not totally correct in saying "all these filters do is remove light" since these filters actually shift the light, setting up the audience to what may be a misleading way of thinking about it.

  • @michaelpark1535
    @michaelpark1535 Рік тому +13

    I studied light in my degree for laser electro optic. It doesn't have to do with them being quantum objects it's because light Scatters Transfers Absorbs and Reflects (S.T.A.R.). As the light hits the filter some of it absorbs and some of it transfers (and some of it scatters and some reflects). Light waves are 3d and when you add the 3rd filter it actually allows the light to bend easier into those filters thus why it moves through them easier. You're also giving it more distance to allow it to bend (3 filters stack longer than 2 filters). If you took enough filters (359) and set them all 1° apart in the same direction you'd actually filter out the filters because most of your light would be able to spiral through. It's because light is both wave particle and photon packet.

    • @aikendrum3228
      @aikendrum3228 Рік тому +3

      How does that explain the experiments with entangled photons?

    • @aaroncurtis8545
      @aaroncurtis8545 Рік тому +1

      @@aikendrum3228 i see a lot of these comments that seem to be based on the first 2 minutes of the video, so they apply high school physics to the polarizer part and ignore the rest of the video. Ahh, science.

    • @benjamindees
      @benjamindees 2 місяці тому

      If it were just down to the distance between filters, someone would have noticed before handing out the Nobel Prizes.

  • @bencushwa8902
    @bencushwa8902 4 роки тому +37

    As a physicist and a photographer, this video was supremely satisfying and interesting.
    Thank you both Henry and Grant.

  • @damiansa2574
    @damiansa2574 3 роки тому +17

    The video reminded me of my BSc thesis. I worked with my mentor on proving Bell without the inequalities using entanglement. It was super fun. The polarizer idea was a superb way to show how things sort of work :)

  • @Victor_Andrei
    @Victor_Andrei Рік тому +1

    Thank god for the red circle and arrow on the thumbnail, otherwise I would have completely missed it. And also, they are clear markers of quality content, as the internet well knows.

  • @LV75RDM
    @LV75RDM 8 місяців тому

    If the filters, based on orientation to the source, can block or reorient the waves passing through then how does effect the information carried by the source? I mean, instead of using entangled pairs, what if the source is a fiber optic cable carrying information. How much information would be passed, reoriented, or lost? Also, if the source can be reoriented through all the filters, then no information is lost at all.

  • @gregorcutt1199
    @gregorcutt1199 6 років тому +55

    This is one of the most interesting videos I've seen all year. Thanks for showing me a phenomenon I never thought to look for, and how it works!

  • @katlin8474
    @katlin8474 6 років тому +452

    Minutephysics and 3Blue1Brown?
    All we need now is Vi Hart and the ultimate trio would be complete

    • @ThainaYu
      @ThainaYu 6 років тому +9

      or Sen Zen maybe

    • @well3034
      @well3034 6 років тому

      Ha!

    • @sleepydog9968
      @sleepydog9968 6 років тому +5

      +Boco Corwin mmmmm...... Venn pie-agram

    • @jjrandom1125
      @jjrandom1125 6 років тому +3

      Sleepy Dog Pi Day Pizza Pie-agram.

    • @rishabhdhiman9422
      @rishabhdhiman9422 6 років тому +2

      Boco Corwin Vi Hart and Venn Diagrams 😍

  • @psilocosmo6918
    @psilocosmo6918 6 місяців тому

    “It’s frankly surprising more people don’t know about it”
    People can’t understand it, but they feel it.

  • @jamesraymond1158
    @jamesraymond1158 5 місяців тому +1

    Great video. I love how polarized filters can demonstrate quantum effects, something I noticed decades ago. One thing was unclear to me in this video: are entangled photons involved in these results? If no, is there a way to create entangled photons with polarized filters?

  • @leeroy14r60
    @leeroy14r60 4 роки тому +161

    I clicked this video to try to get smarter, I used 100% of my brain and almost died, now I have permanently lost 50 iq points

    • @yash1756
      @yash1756 3 роки тому +2

      I feel you xD

    • @januchostouch2930
      @januchostouch2930 3 роки тому +8

      lol, I live in EU and I was like: oh some video, let's get smarter, my english is good so I should be able to understand some of things said in this video... Yeah I was wrong, this is not even english 😂😂😂

    • @NightRogue77
      @NightRogue77 3 роки тому +8

      congrats! you can now run for president of the United States

    • @peaceenlux3513
      @peaceenlux3513 3 роки тому

      A headline headache. No returns. Ouch. Only 3 minutes

    • @cophfe
      @cophfe 3 роки тому +2

      Wow you got negative IQ? never seen that before

  • @luxaley
    @luxaley 3 роки тому +25

    Oh thanks for the bug report, I'll fix it in the next patch

  • @danielackles4265
    @danielackles4265 19 днів тому

    Beautiful video, thank you for sharing! :)

  • @John-dh1gh
    @John-dh1gh 3 місяці тому

    If they didn't use venn diagrams and looked at conditional probability then they wouldn't have a silly linear relationship. This really is a substandard physics video.

  • @j.503
    @j.503 3 роки тому +205

    I really appreciate the effort you guys put into trying to explain this stuff to us knuckleheads. I'm not sure if it's working but I still appreciate the effort.

    • @wayneyadams
      @wayneyadams 2 роки тому +10

      They do get a little confusing when they start to show the Venn diagrams and rapidly go through the explanations of them. That would never have happened in my physics class.

    • @avhuf
      @avhuf 2 роки тому +6

      @@wayneyadams The "rapid" part is my sole gripe about Minutephysics videos. One does need to rewind multiple times to digest.

    • @yourdedcat-qr7ln
      @yourdedcat-qr7ln 2 роки тому

      It works for me.

    • @yourdedcat-qr7ln
      @yourdedcat-qr7ln 2 роки тому

      @@avhuf but we can rewind tho

    • @yourdedcat-qr7ln
      @yourdedcat-qr7ln 2 роки тому +1

      @@wayneyadams just imagine it like water equilibrium and awareness. Or like gas in the car scenario. Im driving somewhere and idk how much gas I used until I get there. Locality. Information travels as fast as the car. Realism. I will know how much gas if I can account for all the variables.

  • @fizizy6415
    @fizizy6415 6 років тому +3273

    Today I learned I am not smart.

    • @aSeaofTroubles
      @aSeaofTroubles 6 років тому +161

      Well this isn't easy material, and I didn't personally think this video was easy to follow because it was too fast and there were too many things to track at the same time (even though I've learned this material before!)
      Many famous physicists had a hard time coming to grips with this theorem -- that's why it's such an earth shattering result because it really shows that we needed a different way to describe states. It is still debated philosophically.

    • @sabarsherzad
      @sabarsherzad 6 років тому +15

      Amen

    • @davemarx7856
      @davemarx7856 6 років тому +187

      Hey, we're smart enough to watch the video and try to understand it.
      And, remember, this is QUANTUM PHYSICS.
      So remember... while others were watching cats and worldstar, you were watching science.

    • @smakdoubt1017
      @smakdoubt1017 6 років тому +17

      Usually the answers to the most complex questions are the most simplest...quantum theory does my head in ....but this really portrayed how there may be a sub science to our science...like know all your scales...then forget them and just play...🙂

    • @Name-ul8es
      @Name-ul8es 6 років тому +10

      We are just starting.....

  • @xnadave
    @xnadave Рік тому +1

    Two EE degrees, decades of experience. Whenever I start to feel like an expert - or smart - I come watch one of these videos and get a nice dose of humility.

  • @philcarter2362
    @philcarter2362 Рік тому

    Brilliant, guys. I have subscribed.

  • @asgard_
    @asgard_ 3 роки тому +148

    Is NO ONE going to talk about the collab? How cool is it to have both of them in one video, come on!

    • @linuszarrouk2004
      @linuszarrouk2004 3 роки тому +7

      It doesn't matter nothing is real apparently

    • @el0j
      @el0j 2 роки тому

      this sort of things happen literally all the time infinitely

    • @asgard_
      @asgard_ 2 роки тому +2

      @@el0j Yes. But those two though.

    • @It-b-Blair
      @It-b-Blair 2 роки тому

      The outro was great too! It was a great collab 👍💯

    • @quattro4468
      @quattro4468 2 роки тому

      Theyre just people. No need for eceleb worship.

  • @pupsiuspupuliukas2394
    @pupsiuspupuliukas2394 2 роки тому +22

    Gadzooks. I am a medic and came here learning about polarised and non polarised dermatoscopes for melanoma detection. I would love to learn more about this stuff. Many thanks!

  • @adamb7088
    @adamb7088 Рік тому +18

    Arrrrrgh! Why is the universe so weird?! Its hard to understand which means i need to read more about it. I love this.

    • @CloudyFlow
      @CloudyFlow Рік тому +1

      its not weird, bells theorem is false -just do a quick google and you'll see that.
      now how to explain this polarizer thing is the harder part BUT the hint it how placing many makes more light pass through: you can turn the light waves to a different direction, kind of like when you are playing a racing game and hit a wall: if its 90 degrees you'll stop at the wall, but if its less, you'll turn and eventually be able to turn even the 90 degrees just because it comes in many hits to a wall.

    • @randomprodigius914
      @randomprodigius914 Рік тому

      @@CloudyFlow ? Bell's theorem is true, just do a quick non biased research and you will see that

    • @CloudyFlow
      @CloudyFlow Рік тому +1

      @@randomprodigius914 People also ask
      Is Bell's theorem disproved?
      Bell's theorem is refuted by presenting a counterexample that correctly predicts the expectation values of QM. As Bell only ruled out non-contextual models, a contextual model with hidden variables can refute his theorem.

    • @weltmechanik7302
      @weltmechanik7302 Рік тому

      It´s not weired. It have to do all of his functions.

    • @Cpt_John_Price
      @Cpt_John_Price Рік тому

      "The universe is not weird, we are."

  • @yourdedcat-qr7ln
    @yourdedcat-qr7ln 2 роки тому

    The visualization and images really help

  • @motorb1tch
    @motorb1tch 5 років тому +708

    i have glasses and a beard but i am still very confused.

    • @dgfhrtsrthr5361
      @dgfhrtsrthr5361 5 років тому +4

      If you are not too fat you'll probably be able to squeeze yourself thru this mess. Don't worry.

    • @hirsutebodkin6888
      @hirsutebodkin6888 5 років тому +27

      I think that means 50% of us must also be wearing your glasses, or that 85% of my beard can communicate with yours faster than light, or something

    • @wiltse0
      @wiltse0 5 років тому +8

      It's because they restate the same thing in different words about 50 times.

    • @pachma405
      @pachma405 5 років тому +7

      Get yourself a white lab coat and a bow tie and you will understand everything.

    • @silvergalaxie
      @silvergalaxie 5 років тому

      try a mustache & red frames ; )

  • @samuellee9082
    @samuellee9082 3 роки тому +196

    "First, photons are waves,"
    Einstein and Planck: Yes, but no

    • @vincent_hall
      @vincent_hall 3 роки тому +12

      So that's a superposition of right and wrong?
      😂

    • @ouzelswing4529
      @ouzelswing4529 2 роки тому +11

      @@vincent_hall Yesn't

    • @mjolnirswrath23
      @mjolnirswrath23 2 роки тому

      @@vincent_hall prescription is reality reality is perception why is this hard to understand?
      All entropy , none entropy and reverse Motion entropy IS information
      positive Neutral Negative
      , the universe doesn't work in binary function, that is an observation Error , we learned that the observer Changes the outcome DECADES ago .Our Inheritantly euclidean geometry of Genetic code and Binary function of Brains distorts the data, simply by observation...The Universal Theorum is Therefore Ochams Razor , The Universal Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Frequency Code is Tertiary A Paradigm, Not Binary...

    • @mjolnirswrath23
      @mjolnirswrath23 2 роки тому +1

      If I were to build a quantum engine or a quantum motor based on the principle of our sun and our planet I would simply build a three phase tertiary based electromagnetic axial spin armature surround it with a palladium polonium rhodium skin representing the atmosphere introduce hydrogen oxygen nitrogen and carbon and helium 3 in a plasma Arc reactor form representing the solar rays from the Sun on one side of the armature at which point you use a secondary klystron coil wrapped around it to literally suck all the electrical energy from the reaction now because it's so high voltage you will have to step it down at which point you will have to make a reverse marks generator which is just a series of capacitors in 369 formulation very useful for making a herf gun or a plasma rifle or a rail gun which is just lenze law of propelling aluminum rounds suspension of electromagnetic angular direction.. everything is I can power City with something like that with the device the size of a golf ball humans are way way off have a good day.

    • @sondderrr
      @sondderrr 2 роки тому

      I understood that reference

  • @Hogscraper
    @Hogscraper Рік тому +41

    What if the filter isn't just allowing a percentage to pass through but somehow rotating the ones that got through 90 degrees and that's why the turned second filter blocks all the outgoing photons and why the inserted middle filter shifts them so that a 90 turn no longer is able to block them as well? What happens when the bottom one is offset from the second? Is there a percentage offset that then blocks all of them?

    • @crookycumbles
      @crookycumbles Рік тому +4

      That's why they discussed the experiment with filters spread apart spacially.

    • @mnair77
      @mnair77 Рік тому +1

      I was watching Bell's theorem videos to get the answer to this very question! This video does a great job of explaining it, see 8:45 onwards.

    • @retnuhytnuob4068
      @retnuhytnuob4068 Рік тому +2

      Thinking through this... [Speculation] It seems like this would depend on the nature of entanglement. If changes to one particle affects the other, regardless of distance, AND the 'filtering' is a 'deflected towards alignment', THEN since it's hitting both lenses 'at the same time', it would make sense that the result would look the same as having gone through both lenses, since, in effect, they have. -- This does ask whether entanglement is a violation of 'locality', in terms of if the result is considered 'communication' in the scientific sense. ... But that depends on the nature and limits of entanglement.

    • @retnuhytnuob4068
      @retnuhytnuob4068 Рік тому +1

      I had another thought... If entanglement is along the lines of a higher dimensional pinning, (like a magnet holding a bend in a sheet of paper, causing a 2d closeness using a 3d area, even if the paper shifts under it) then 'locality' doesn't need to be a problem either.

    • @vasylsky9486
      @vasylsky9486 Рік тому

      @@crookycumbles But only second filter that it passes through is spatially separated. Each photon is still passing 2 filters in that experiment. First filter - by both photons (to get an entangled pair), then each photon goes to its own second filter. So the question is still valid

  • @helifynoe1034
    @helifynoe1034 Місяць тому +1

    First of all, it is to be noted that as you rotate one filter relative to the other, and do so in a linear consistent manner, the change in light intensity passing through, is NOT linear. You can verify this with a Malus Law Calculator. Now imagine the the spin of a photon is not merely spatial, but also extends across the time dimension. So it also moves back and forth across time to a degree, and its polarity changes while doing so. Thus what is important, is what photons passed through the first filter, considering that photons move back and forth across time. Not all of them that passed thorough, were able to pass through in real time rotational position. I'm sure you can figure the rest out.

  • @krisng2241997
    @krisng2241997 6 років тому +380

    The lord of the light determines how many photons pass through

    • @sourboii9586
      @sourboii9586 6 років тому +2

      Photons*

    • @neonjoe529
      @neonjoe529 6 років тому +37

      Quantum Mechanics is dark and full of terrors.

    • @RaphaelBrandaoS
      @RaphaelBrandaoS 6 років тому

      Yep, I saw It on fire

    • @MrAndrewaziz
      @MrAndrewaziz 6 років тому +5

      Only Azor Ahai can know how many photons pass through. The physicist that was promised

    • @haraldlindohf4032
      @haraldlindohf4032 6 років тому +1

      henlo frien, i are de lord of the photonboys!
      (*.*)
      i determine their ways!

  • @kacee3472
    @kacee3472 6 років тому +433

    This is way more interesting than the Algebra 2 homework that I'm supposed to be doing right now.

    • @Illuminatiman44
      @Illuminatiman44 6 років тому +30

      Kacee do your homework man

    • @freeinformation9869
      @freeinformation9869 6 років тому +2

      :-D

    • @Dollapfin
      @Dollapfin 6 років тому +3

      Kacee FAHUUUUCK HOMEWORK! It's like the least efficient way to learn. You do the same shit twenty times in a row and get so bored about it you forget that shit. I'm in trig Rn. It's aight cuz I don't do homework and get good grades cuz I'm very smart.

    • @lex5964
      @lex5964 6 років тому +19

      /r/iamverysmart

    • @rasmusblomgren2686
      @rasmusblomgren2686 6 років тому +2

      Math😩

  • @dcrespin
    @dcrespin Рік тому +1

    For those already initiated in QM I repeat here some comments previously made to similar videos. They may clarify debatable points.
    The Schrödinger time dependent equation (STDE) when applied to a wave representing an initial state of, say, an electron bound to a proton and together forming a hydrogen atom, predicts and retrodicts all the future and previous states of the electron wave, in the same fashion than the evolution equations of classical mechanics predicts the movement of the Earth around the Sun. Note that the STDE is energy conservative, that is, the initial state as well as the predicted and retrodicted ones all have the same energy.
    As is well known the bound electron has a completely different conduct. Whatever the initial state and in absence of other interactions an excited electron will settle in a stationary state radiating energy (in the form of a photon) along the way. If the stationary state is the ground state the electron will stay there forever (in absence, as said before, of other interactions). Otherwise the stationary electron state is ephemeral and will be abandoned to radiate a photon and assume a new stationary state of even lower energy. This "down the staircase" process repeats until the ground state is reached. There is no manner to adapt the STDE to this physical process. This inconsistency was discovered by none other than Niels Bohr, as can be inferred from the report of Werner Heisenberg. See our note
    www.researchgate.net/publication/356193279_Deconstruction_of_Quantum_Wave_Mechanics
    After discovering the tremendous inconsistency between the equation and the atom it would have been natural to announce that the STDE contradicted physical facts, and ask for a correct equation. I assume as true, but only know from hearsay very long ago, that in Einstein's viewpoint the correct deterministic time dependent wave equation had to be non-linear in contrast with the linear STDE. References to this historical detail would be appreciated.
    It is hard to believe but, against reasonableness and common sense, Bohr decided to adopt the STDE as correct and that continuity, causality and determinism of physical processes were wrong because they contradicted the STDE. Apparently mathematical equations on paper were more relevant than the experience of the whole human race. Then a series of new and fanciful "quantum physical principles" were adopted.
    In my opinion the powerful quantum establishment dogmatically defends Quantism and strongly rejects any attempt to correct its misdeeds, even if the correct deterministic time dependent wave equation is available.
    With best regards to all
    Daniel Crespin