Quantum physicist blows minds with spooky action at a distance | Tim Maudlin

[patrick]

The way he just slips telepathy in there. 😂

[jasonspades]

This is deceptive. This guy is intentionally making this sound more mysterious than it really is

[kobe-fivi]

He is NOT a quantum physicist. Please correct the title

[marlaadamson]

Absolutely awesome!
The last 4 years of my life have been a crash course in "this absolutely cant be happening, but it IS happening." I'd love to share the data

[vincentlin]

One explanation of quantum entanglement is that two particles in an entangled state are actually equivalent to different spatial forms of the same particle. Because the wave-particle duality of quantum means that any quantum is the existence of a probability distribution that pervades the entire universe. All quantum In fact, they all overlap with each other with different probabilities.

[christophebonnery]

What does Alice cannot « affect » Bob at distance ; saying that is a misconception of quantum mechanics. If Alice does a measure on a particle, and Bob does a measure on a particule entangled with the previous one, then their results will be correlated, but that's all ; none of Alice and Bob have the power to affect the other one. More than that, the order of the measurements done by Alice and Bob can be different depending on the relative velocity of the observer (all this if they are doing their measurements « closely enough », i.e. in such a way the light has no time to travel from Alice to Bob or conversely between their respective measurements), and this shows that there is absolutely no causality in the process.

However, this entanglement stuff is indeed mind-blowing, for the reason that it teaches us that our space-time is an object whose essence is very different from what we observe in our daily life. With our simple minds, we could only think of a kind of computer producing such a space-time, as it's capable of maintaining correlations in particle pairs that may be separated by distances of billions of light-years. But there is a priori no computer in nature, so the universe emerges from something that we don't yet understand. Some people like Alain Connes try to have it emerging from pure mathematics ; imagine if such attempts succeed one day… That would revolutionize a lot of things in our society. However, I think we'll never be able to unveil the ultimate truth ; I bet it is out of reach of our brains.

[raykeller]

Ya. We know. We feel the agonies of all the war zones. We feel the suffering of others, and the joys, from a distance. Who’d a thought?

[tulliusagrippa]

Telepathy involves transmission of information. Quantum non locality cannot transmit information, so it does not involve telepathy or give support to the idea of telepathy.

[garnerjoyce]

Connectivity in ways not understood, people that needed by others

[timcrowe]

It’s not that it effects it. It informs it. Bad physics teachers teaching the wrong thing.

[petertrebilco]

Surely this suggests everything is connected, is one, which might go some way to explaining the spooky action observation. The mystery is, perhaps, in the human act of observing rather than in the phenomena themselves. It’s only when we observe two ‘things’ (perhaps points on an infinite plain or spherical surface or a point as it might be imagined floating in a soup that surrounds every point at once) that we can observe simultaneous action at whatever distance we choose. Could it not be possible (whether we are able to construct a relevant experiment or no) that when observing one place we are observing the entire soup in which our imaginary points exist, such that to observe the one is to observe the same one in a different place, doing the same thing only because both locations are occupied by the one ‘thing’, point, electron or whatever? Our identity as an individual is after all enabled by the space between us. It’s because of the space between us that we understand things differently. I am not you and you are not me because the space between us gives us the illusion of separation. What if by looking in two different places our sociocultural memory demands of us the understanding that two different things exist? What if we’re looking at the same thing through a distorted lens?

[jackieking]

The particles are entangled. Then separated. Then one is "tested" and now we know something about the other. Is that it?

[divided_and_conquered]

I'm not buying it, and there's no way to test that hypothesis.

[plumbus]

The outcome is not effected, they're just correlated. Alice can't change what Bob sees because the results are still random

[nordvesterdalmodelrailroad]

this is what happens when art teachers read about quantum mechanics

[danielmichalski]

I have experienced telepathy multiple times in my life. Unfortunately, Catholic Church's indoctrination triggers fear reactions in my psyche when I try to pursue such abilities 🤦🏻

[SilverVayne]

You just subjected poor and stupid people to another 100 years of psychics stealing their money.

[Saitama]

It's not clear from this clip, but when Tim Maudlin uses the word "telepathy" he doesn't mean one person magically reading another person's mind. It's just another way of saying "spooky action at a distance".

[brindlebriar]

The last thing he said about Alice is Rupert Sheldrake's "Morphic Resonance" theory. Idk if he's speaking metaphorically or trying to steal credit for Rupert's work.
But it's actually _true, _ what he said about Alice et al, though it's way too large to be described by current quantum mechanics, except by way of analogy.

[FrancesScott-yehb]

Maybe we are not as far apart as our eyes and senses tell us 🤔