Can quantum physics fool them? - Till Haunschild on Penn & Teller: Fool Us
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- "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke
Get ready for some amazing magic! ... or is it science?
I will teach you in episode 14 of "Penn & Teller: Fool Us" how Quantum Entanglement works!
You can hire me for your (real or virtual) event as a magician or keynote speaker: www.till-haunschild.com
A special thank you goes to:
- Adam Cheyer for practicing with me over 8 hours non stop.
- William Hurley to get me in touch with other quantum physicists.
- Sascha Häberling for working with me on 'the alternate method'.
- Shin Lim for getting me "the gimmick".
- Prof. Dr. Erb for providing the super conductor.
- Chris Ferrie for discussing quantum physics with me.
Buy his book "Quantum Entanglement for Babies" if you want to learn more!
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Aired on The CW, US: Nov 16th 2020 - 8pm
Watch my audition video to see how the trick has changed: czcams.com/video/e1FrzXry8vY/video.html
I recommend everyone passing through here to watch the audition video. WOW.
Great trick, with more educators would do what you do , kids would love science again :)
All the best
It’s of course always fishy when the performer says ”Don’t look at the card“, because by looking at the card the wave function of the card collapses and the card has to decide what face it has.
This is a perfect comment!
Schroedinger's card
@@nazfrde What an exquisite reply ...
Hahaha :D
this comment is amazing
The real question is: are the cards in the boxes dead and alive at the same time?
You are correct! I was wondering if anyone gets the reference to Schrödinger's cat :)
Till Haunschild
I did :)
@@haunschild Of course we did! Great job!
@@haunschild Erwin Schrodinger reminds me of his intricate equation that was torturous to remember🤪
It is both dead and alive at the same time! We won’t know the state until we look!
*talks about quantum entanglement
*says he has identical twin sons
Something is going on here
THANK YOU!
That way, he only has to beat one of them.
That means a laser was used to split the embryo in utero. Does that mean he's a scientist in his pants?
His wife didn't want to go through all the trouble of getting pregnant again with a second child so he just put his kid in a box and... well, you know how the rest goes...
It's pretty cool that FoolUs lets that magicians have the video of their trick for their individual channels. Really shows that Penn and Teller are more in support of new magicians being found than making more money themselves.
This was a cool trick. i liked it! and it fooled me.
I never thought of that. You are right that actually that's a really big thing. Particularly for smaller magicians and small channels. Always liked those pair, they come across as really nice gentlemen.
it's free advertisement, i would never have seen any of this if it wasnt as widely spread. I think most tv networks are just behind the times.
Very true. And in cases where they don't already have a channel, the FU social media team will get it all set up. You'll notice that for a lot of them, their profile image is of their performance on the show and that the FU video is the first (and in some cases, the only) video to have been uploaded. It's a win-win for the performer and the studio to give them a further online media presence.
and the connection to magic from both parties that they understand the conversation at the end to be like, you got me cuz you said so.
maybe fool us gets monetization these guys have only a minor pay!
I have always thought that magic is best utilized not as a means to "fool" people, but to give them an actual sense of wonderment. Using magic as a storytelling tool to reintroduce people to the miracle of our very existence and the wide-eyed amazement of the natural world around us is, I believe, a truly noble pursuit. The way you use it here to convey the concept of quantum entanglement is brilliant, and I applaud you for it. I hope you will continue to use your magic in this way. We need to be reminded what an amazing and mysterious world we live in, that beyond our workaday distractions lies a still largely unexplored universe of wondrous possibilities. So many magicians are only interested in performing illusions for illusion's sake. You have a unique combination of knowledge and talent that can transcend what most people know of as "magic" and really awaken a sense of wonder about who we are, where we came from, and what we can do with it. The possibilities are endless, and I hope that your continued success will be as well. We need you!
Mr Johnson your words truely moved me! Thank you so much for them.
I agree with you that it was an absolutely great presentation, but I do not recommend it as an introduction to quantum physics either. The counterpart of the correlated card 2S would have to be expressed in the model by the card 2H, for example, in order for it to be 0. The result would then reflect certain "quantum properties" to which the entanglement relates. The same is true for "correlated" 5H and QH. The time entanglement in the "card" model also lacked something significant, but it doesn't matter. The important thing is that it was fun (especially for us physicists) and it doesn't matter at all that it happened through simple tricks.
@@DL-kc8fc I wasn’t meaning to use magic to explain the subject in precise detail at a Doctorate level. I just meant to use it to inspire awe as a way of encouraging people to look further into it, for it to be more of a quick, general overview. I appreciate your well-figured response, though!
You are completely correct and I had a long discussion with 2 physics professors about that. In the end it is a balance of keeping it entertaining and engaging without it being too complicated
@@MikeJohnson-hp8lr I agree with everything you write. Take my reaction more as a recommendation on how to bring the card model closer to the observed reality without being too complicated for the audience.
I have no clue, keep scrolling.
Agree brother
I think its easy. The dude did not shuffle the deck. The woman at one point knows what to do before he even say it. So they both are not just randomly selected viewers. Both decks are prepared and they are taking just cards from top. And that second cut negates the first. Nice trick but very transparent.
@@emerialon5612 There are a couple rules for the show and one is that when they say someone is randomly selected from the audience, that part is true. Someone might be an instant stooge, but that's not rehearsed. The trick there is likely when he took the deck from her.
Lol for real
I like this
When I was in high school, I did a little magic, and now I do quantum entanglement for a living, so Till, you made my day with this routine. Shared with my research group!
High school. Where can I join one! I bet it's magic!
Never trust an "empty" box... or when a magician puts his hands under a table! lol
We know...we know, but for the average Joe they would miss all of that
I agree, but can we trust when a banded stack of torn half-cards materializes into a new box of cards?
Imagine a magician on a date... just one moment he has his hand under the table for a second and the next thing she can remember is beeing pregnant! XD
@@EinsamPibroch278 is it really a "new" box of cards?
Lol 😂
He has identical twins - Allison should have pulled off quantum entanglement joke :)
yup! that's what i thought too!!
@@WiredInside agreed!!!
@@WiredInside Because Jonathan Ross is actually funny. I don't think she is doing a good job there, really
I think she was trying to but he didn't get it.
He set her up for it. Lobbed her a softball and she whiffed it.
When penn was taking to Till I didn’t even realize that he was already talking in code!!!! What’s even more impressive than all the magicians that go up there is that penn can explain the trick without regular people understanding what he is saying lol
There was one instance where they were talking in code and even the magician didn't really get it, thinking they had figured him out, but they actually hadn't (it was some routine with poker chips and they thought the poker chips were manipulated, but it turned out they were regular chips). They learned that about a year later, gave the trophy to the magician and had him on the show again where he fooled them again.
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo link to the video?
All Penn has to do is drop keywords. The keyword Penn dropped here is "multiple" and "multiple outs", hinting that each deck had multiple same cards.
@@georgeb9088 multiple outs actually means there are multiple outcomes he can use depending on the card that was chosen, not that the decks have multiple same cards
Incredible. Just incredible, love the presentation, your character and especially the tie-in with quantom physics
This is really an amazing routine, the storytelling is incredible and I really loved it. Your style is so nice and I really like it. Greetings from Italy!
Hey, fellow physicist here, so nice to see a quantum magic trick! That's what I call an entanglement witness :-)
I absolutely loved this presentation. I've been wanting to see a good "spooky action at a distance" theme worked into a trick. Great job!
This is actually the second one. Tom Stone had a Spooky Action trick a few years ago too.
czcams.com/video/-uCT_RRHiRY/video.html
Thanks for pointing that out. Indeed, Tom's performance was phenomenal. He just didn't work the quantum mechanics angle like Till did.
@@lancetschirhart7676 All due respect to Herr Haunschild, Herr Stone's bit was much more entertaining.
As an amateur magician, I understood the code that Penn used, but I won't give it away because this is such a really good effect and Mr. Haunschild deserves to retain his secrets. I think it's kind of funny that sometimes, we not only get fooled by the guest, but also by P&T in their explanations.
I understood the "code" but not how it was done.
The sleight to bring the second deck in was cool though
Who wants to see a making-of or commentary video? I will try to answer all your questions. Leave one below!
I would love to see a commentary video. I have never seen a video like that before
Yes please.
Wow ...
I don't want to know how the tricks are done, that's kind of making a commentary video pointless... :D In any case, it was a very entertaining and well put together routine! Congrats on the appearance on the show, and may your future bring a lot more magical moments to you too!
@@szabib8048 I will not explain how it is done but rather talk about the whole experience from the audition to the performance and everything around it.
Thanks for the entertainment and excellent routining, Till. Splendid!
What an amazing trick! Looking forward to see more!
3:35 “what ever happens to this deck will automatically happen to that deck.”
* adjusts the left deck and nothing happens to the right deck...
You are right: it should have been "in" instead of "to"
The results are only known after a measurement.
I love the concept of using quantum entanglement for a magic trick!
Truly great. One of my favorite premises I’ve ever seen and it really brought together the whole performance
This was a very good mix between magic and science and the nerd in me LOVED IT!!!!!
Came out perfectly! Congrats Till!
I think one nice touch here, re the whole cat-in-a-box thing is that it is the shaking of the black box that makes the card appear. ;)
Amazing performance dude. You’re really good at performing and I like your style. That was really well done. Hopefully you fool them next time🤞
That blew my mind! Thank you for sharing this, friend. :)
This is my favorite trick of this season!
Well done!
Thank you! What was your favourite last season? Mine: Asi Wind
I really liked the whole quantum entanglement story. Goes very well with the trick.
How on earth did you pull that one off? Amazing!
I was hoping you might find some way to say, this is just a conjuring trick, but what I am saying about entanglement really is true. The Nobel Prize gag achieved that perfectly.
Great Act!! Well presented and had incredible magic. Keep it up!
I enjoyed the presentation throughout. Thanks.
Great performance, well done, very entertaining!
This is a crazy trick, I noticed how you achieved some of it, but other parts I am not so sure of. Very cool and your use of misdirection is so good!
Would love to hear if you like the final version more than the one I used to audition: czcams.com/video/e1FrzXry8vY/video.html
The Lady's reaction to Till explaining Quantum Entanglement was #ChefsKiss
As a fellow magician, let me say my friend that this was a brilliant premise, beautifully delivered with a great range of imperceptible methods! I detect in you a funnier, cheekier side and I hope you let that out more too, because you clearly really _enjoy_ magic and that means you are a treat to watch! Well done!
_EDIT_ Just watched some of your other videos and I was right, you are loads of fun!
Thank you for the nice words! I defenetly enjoy playing the role of a magician :)
@@haunschild knowing how to do it is not the same as knowing how it is done. your overall presentation and personality is the magic.
I don't care if you fooled them or not. This is a fantastic way to talk about science in a magic routine, and a damn good magic trick on its own. I really loved this.
this was an amazing trick that I cannot figure out any part of, and had amazing storytelling and flow. this is one of the best fool us tricks I've ever seen, amazing job!
Thank you for your nice words :)
That was spooky action at a distance! I knew it, I knew it!
This is the BEST explanation of quantum entanglement!
Well executed Till & you certainly fooled me! Better luck next time around....... 👍👍😉😉
That was great! Loved the presentation and related sciences :)
Would love to hear if you like the final version more than the one I used to audition with: czcams.com/video/e1FrzXry8vY/video.html
The best act I have seen on this show.
Such an interesting way to teach about science.
Very creative, very nice, definitely fooled me, well done!
Great routine and presentation, Till. Bravo!
Okay...The first deck of red cards is marked so he knows which one is on top and goes in the box.
When the laser makes the second "deck" materialize, he is reaching under the table (where something like 26 or 52 decks are hidden) for a blue deck with the 2 of spades in a specific known position, the 5 of hearts on top, and an upside down Q of diamonds. The thing that falls on the table is a hollow box...He uses SOH to replace it with the deck that was under the table.
I have no idea how he forces the 5H or the QD or how he gets the 2S in the box.
And I'm probably completely wrong about the first part of my comment too.
Great ideas, but even 26 decks under the table would not have been manageable. Believe me, I've tried ;)
Penn mentions the exact name of the force method, starting with b, but there´s gotta be much more to it as it doesnt explain it all. Also it is risky. Anyways, strong magic, I am fooled :)
Saw this on Angelos fbook page, he loved your performance
Wonderful 'demonstration' of quantum entanglement!
We just chose at complete “random” the audience member who happens to be so gorgeous half the viewers will be drooling all over themselves. lol
You act like pretty girls arent everywhere, especially in events in vegas lol.
@@sneakysquirrel4253 He meant the dude xD
Honestly before I even saw this comment I was thinking "did they just go out and audition for the two most attractive people in the audience?"
Great trick. I've watched it a dozen times and I still can't quite figure out how you maintain that much control over the deck while letting the volunteers cut it. You'd get a trophy from me. 🏆
It didn't require any control.
@@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan wdym
I would definitely enroll in all your classes!
I am working on an online magic course. Subscribe, so you do not miss when it goes live ;)
@@haunschild if possible do tell the reason behind this magic... and liked the difference between a magician and a scientist... it was good...
Best Trick I have ever seen, hands down. Such a great routine, great idea and greatly performed
Glad you liked it!!
You should watch more Fool Us...there are many better tricks!
@@patrickl6932 I have watched every single episode....none has spoken to me, maybe because it's similar to a routine I worked on as a kid ... It's just beautiful from start to finish.
@@patrickl6932 Which one is your favourite? Mine: Asi Wind's xmas performance
the first thought I had when he put the red card in the box and I knew the black card would appear in the black box was "schrödinger's cat".
I really enjoyed your performance, thx for that.
Great act. I am fooled at home. That was alot of fun to watch, and I love the story to it!
Would love to hear if you like the final version more than the one I used to audition with: czcams.com/video/e1FrzXry8vY/video.html
6:26 colonel sanders loved it.
I can not imagine how you did 2 and 3 trick :o 3 one was amazing :o Good luck in your books for children, I love the idea and I love physics!!!!
Great trick and performance.
Excellent. J'adore.
Till next time
Combining my two favorite things, magic and science was wonderful to see. That was a great routine and presented with style! I tried to watch closely, but whoever chose that stunning gal as a participant, provided the perfect distraction. Awesome act! 👏👏
6:25 look at his father, he's very happy and proud ♥
That's spooky. I have twins, and when they were younger they also used to search behind their ears for stuff I "vanished", for the same reasons - that's hilarious.
Good luck!
Excellent performance!
Key phrase? "Multiple outs". . .
I know with absolute certainty how he did this trick, problem is I have no idea where in the comments section I posted it.
I know with absolute certainty where you posted it, but I have no idea what you said.
If this was how science was taught, we would have a better world! ❤️ One of the greatest acts ever 💥
Well if that employed multiple outs I gotta say I don't know where. You fooled me! Great act.
2:12 never trust a magician when he points out these kinds of stuff.
Great trick, nervous beginning, and a few unfortunate camera angles - which still didn't help me in figuring it out :)
Great act! You fooled me so you get my fool me trophy lol.
Amazing. I never want to know how it was done
As someone who’s interested im science (especially quantum physics) and a magician this is awesome to see!
Glad you think so!
A wonderful trick mixed with science!
That girl is pretty magical !
This trick was awesome!
An enjoyable trick.
Not only born in the same town as the GOAT. Your father said the same to you as his did to him. It’s destiny. Nice performance! I was FOOLED. I noticed one force but that was it. I could not explain how this was done. Usually I’m on the same page as penn, but even knowing what he was saying in code I still can’t think of how it was physically done.
Got baited again by the girl in the thumbnail
touche sir
Ditto. And not enough camera time for her.
So you got baited and then you 'bated?
yep, she was cute
@@benjaminrapp7418 he had a 5 knuckle shuffle
Great trick!
very nice!
science and magic are same thing, magic is word we use to describe science that we don't yet understand. also it was just sleight of hand, a good one tho. i think you forced the first card or swapped the last one, you only kept the red box's card in view, while other one was in your palm for a while, plenty of time to swap it out.
but it was nicely done.
also Einstein wasn't as great as everyone says he was, because you see back in those days nothing was invented yet, so it was easy to make things, but nowdays it's hard to come up with anything original, because everything exists already. for example person who invented a wheel or lightbulb, they got lot of credit and fame for it ... but it was super easy. for example i figured out water displacement when i was probably like 2-3 years old, when i was being put into the baby path, they always filled it up all the way and when they put me in it, then water raised over the edges .. and i remember hearing people talking saying "look he has splashed water all over again" .. i was way too young to express myself, but i kept thinking "are you that dumb that you dont understand water displacement?"
but the person who first went public with water displacement, got famous for it. so just because someone publishes something first, doesn't always make them more intelligent or smarter, it just makes them faster and/or greedier. Einstein has been wrong about a lot of things, like absolute zero temperature.
as about quantum entanglement, i agree with him tho, particles are pre-programmed. on quantum level things work different, gravity and other forces work different. if you split the particles, they keep doing what they did, they don't actually communicate with eachother, they just do same thing. if you'd have a way to affect them without observing them first, then you can break that bond and make them do different things.
if you change one particle's rotation, then other will NOT change. this experiment only works when observing. it's quite easy really.
good stuff.
Great performance I dont know how you did it but very entertaining
Would love to hear if you like the final version more than the one I used to audition with: czcams.com/video/e1FrzXry8vY/video.html
Penn really sounds like he's losing his voice. I wonder if its because of all those energetic monologues during their acts
I love quantum physics love this act
Three trick combine 👍
The last Till I ever heard of was named Eulenspiegel. Like you, he was in the habit of playing tricks on people!
How would you split an elementary particle? ;)
The magic and that woman is wonderful
Nobel Prize goes to pen and teller for explaining this trick.
What a magical table
The table has nothing to do with it, except hold the props.
*Winning a *Fool Us* trophy is way more difficult than winning the Nobel prize!
So true!
The boxes didn't fool me one bit but I have zero clue how the rest was done even though I understood the code that Penn said. Damn good trick!
What was the code? My guess was more than two decks, but I'm not sure.
@@paulm3952 "multiple outs"
I have a problem with this. The card was removed from the deck BEFORE the entanglement happened. So that card wasn't part of the entanglement and therefore should have been exempt.
I had the exact same thought haha but i suppose you could argue the card was entangled with its deck, therefore entangling the other deck made that cards "information" synchronize instantly.
if you look when he turned over the deck there was the 2 of spades too i think the whole deck was 2 of spades and he used slight of hand to make both cards get to where they needed to be
All cards are different! Whatch my audition video and you see: czcams.com/video/e1FrzXry8vY/video.html
Towards the end I got a bit of a Tommy Wonder vibe, thinking it'd be a similar move. I was almost disappointed that it wasn't, but a great performance nonetheless!
Nice trick. And wow, that girl is beautiful
If they are entangled don’t you think that they should have matching but opposite card so “the total spin” in this case the value remains 0 ?
Well spotted! I had a discussion with 3 quantum physics professors (one of them being Chris Ferrie) and this question actually came up :)
@@haunschild quick question, shouldn’t the deck be entangled before putting a card in the box? Because if it was not entangled when putting it in the box the other box would be empty.
@@timschafer2536 This is a good question and I thought about it when scripting the routine. I could have first entangled the deck and then let the spectator put the card in the box. But I read a very interesting PhD Thesis called "Quantum Entanglement in Time", so I went with this interpretation. Additionally it makes the whole
tension arc of the routine way better ;)
@@haunschild at quantum level our newtonian mechanics doesn’t apply its a different world obeying different physical laws. I am sure you can make a trick out of Double-slit experiment too :-)
@@timschafer2536 As the cards are moving in the speed of light, the time does not exist for them and thus any action sequence based on time does not apply..
I hate it when they cut out a scene that gives away the trick. Compare the deck of cards at 2:07 and then again at 2:11. The deck of the cards were moved. So there was something done to plant the card on top of the deck.
You are correct, the cards have been shuffled a second time by the girl but they decided to cut it out. I would have preferred them leaving it in since it makes the trick seem even more impossible ;)
@@haunschild Even more spooky than action at a distance is action across time, into the past.
The editing of these performances is often a bit annoying. By cutting that bit out where the deck was moved, it does make it look like some sloppy slight of hand was done and edited out. But, that's not the case.
@@jamesreed5678 Removing key "cuts" and other necessary manipulations reduce the magician's performance to the level of video-cheaters. It's a disturbing phenomenon in "Fool Us". No magician has ever admitted that it was nothing important in his case, because TV manipulation always plays in his favor. We know of many cases where a key moment has been removed to make the trick sophisticated. It's very ridiculous how an empty box from a "laser" is exchanged under a table for a full box, followed by unnecessary editing of something that supposedly doesn't affect the trick. )))
Agree, the camera angle and the editing did not help to appreciate the performance
5:53 you see the sleight. But yeah. This is video. On realtime this would be harder to find out even if you knew when most likely magic happens. Well done.
No slight once the cards are in my hands. Could have opened them by the spectators.