First Ever Image of Atoms Turning Into Quantum Waves...Is Kinda Mind-Blowing!
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about particle wave duality and the first image showing it in action
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A neutrino walks into a saloon, and the bartender asks what he'd like to drink.
"Oh nothing, I'm just passin' thru."
Thanks for that 😂
Oh I see what you did there, very clever because Neutrinos have no legs.
@@nizzurtmontalgizzert6462 ah, because the Neutino would have to walk home..now i get it.☮💜
@@Amused_Comfort_Inc😂😊
Not directly related to the subject -
2 scientists walk into a bar. The first one asks for a glass of h 2 oh. He drinks it, and walks out.
The second one asks for a glass of h 2 oh too. He drinks it and drops dead.
If you have a box.. chances are 100% there is a cat inside..
That's because when I open a box, I collapse it the heck outa here. No offense, I like animals... I just don't want one.
Only if it's David Deutsch's cat, I'm afraid. 🤔😏 Mine, - I have to go through dozens of them to finally find it.
Interestingly, even big cats like tigers are fond of boxes as long as they are big enough
😂
I checked my box, no cat. I think that in the nanosecond before I checked my box, the cat went to your box. Check yours and I will let you know if the cat is now in mine.
I saw this happen to an entire crowd at a baseball game
Damn you.
Take my like and go.
🎶oooh oh oh .... ohhh oh oh 🎶
Atoms love Baseball!
@@retrohollandia
Great minds and all that...
My point exactly.. how does this means atoms turn into waves? I don't follow..
Cats are indeed quantum waves! You can clearly witness it when they are sneaking up on you: Look at the cat and it will freeze its current position (determined) -> Particle.
You hide behind the door and after 2 seconds you look again. The cat is in particle state again, but the position changed, but in between it behaves like a wave function.
This timelapse continues until the paw's wave function collapes in your face.
I know this from experience!
Cats also effortlessly pass through doors when you're not looking. And they have a singularity in their stomachs.
No, entire cat isn't a quantum wave in it's own.
@@markiv2942 Sure it must be! An entire cat fits into the smalles boxes which should not be physically possible. Further more: you will never observe a cat doing it as it won't do it as long it is being observed :D
But as soon as you look away, it tunnels into the box mystically.
cats are in a path-encoded superposition because they are so fuzzy their position is indeterminate :3
As atoms display wave-like behavior, quantum mechanics extends its influence into molecules, especially those integral to life processes. Quantum mechanics entails tunneling, superposition, and entanglement within biological systems; these phenomena are evident in the absorption of light by chlorophyll, electron transport within enzymes, the operation of olfactory receptors, and the mechanisms governing photosensitive vision.
Exactly. This gets even more insane, since human vision is based on receptor theory which means that vision is entirely derived from the complex interactions of different field energies in different tissue regions. Receptors are essentially the mechanism that creates these frequencies
@@jacobmcguire106Did you just make that up like when they talk about science on star trek?
@@jyjjy7star trek soy consoomers tryna be smörtical with wordanating
@@jacobmcguire106you do realize that receptors don't create frequencies right?
@@jyjjy7 hahaha, 24k Gold comment right there 😁
The cat is alive with no uncertainty. Anton is too wonderful to observe a cat getting hurt without rescuing it.
I agree, looked full of beans to me as well
Anton's cat is either happily awake or comfortably sleeping. That is the uncertainty. This is verified by the Schrodinger equation.
Pretty sure no cats were actually harmed by Shrodinger. Just googled it and it seems the question on whether he owned a cat is still debated. Some say he owned a cat named "Milton", while others claim that is just a story. He never actually harmed any cats as his "experiment" was only ever a thought experiment as far as I can tell.
Yes but what if he doesn't observe
@@bartbroek9695 The cat will be content even if Anton doesn't look. That we know for sure.
Schrödinger's T shirt, can be worn and not worn at the same time.
But you won't know until you observe it...
Is that similar to Schrodinger's Fart? Where you don't know if it's a solid, liquid, or a gas until you let it out?
It'll be cool if they can make a tshirt that goes transparent sometimes...
@@ConnoisseurOfExistence Have you never seen a wet T-shirt competition?
@@ConnoisseurOfExistence that's silly it is either there or not there, transparent is irrelivant
Which begs the question about Schrodinger’s titties ha ha ha ha
This is amazing. Imaging actual atoms as they vibrate. So this makes me think of the roll or importance of frequency in matter. It feels like we are missing something really big that will change everything when we figure it out.
Yeah, I'm also waiting for this. But to get there we need to listen to Einstein wjo wanted to try to understand Quantum Physics beyond just mathematics. Bohr's "shit up and calculate" has given us immense knowledge, but to really understand things, I think we also need to ask more practical questions about the nature of quantum physics.
This is so duh and obvious. Are all physicists devoid of common sense?
the brown frequency is real?
@@DannyJoh
But maybe “Shit up and calculate” has ossified orthodoxy into “handcuffs”.
@@dayoldnews8869 This is one frequency I DO NOT WANT TO EVER EXPERIENCE.
Fun fact: Schrödinger’s real life cat was named Milton.
Better cat-namer than Lovecraft, then.
Milton,my visiting cat
You said I could have my radio at a reasonable volume while I was collating…
Fun fact: My grandfather’s Doberman said Milton tasted like chicken
My mum was born in a town called Milton
Lol... I was gonna name one of my cats Schrodinger but my son decided on Jellybean...
Good thing quantum states also applies to jellybeans!
We did, its been a rollercoaster, but 14 years later she's still as cute as ever.
Well you have to get a divorce and get rid of your son now ): there is no other way
Maybe it is in a state, in which it is Schrodinger and Jellybean at the same time?
The cat's name was both Schrodinger and Jellybean until you asked your son.
The, "Hello, wonderful person," at the beginning of and the smile and wave at the end of all your videos always cause me to smile.
I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to all this physics stuff but even I understand that producing an image of atoms turning into quantum waves is a significant deal. I hope those behind such a great feat get the appropriate amount of recognition and such.
The famous wonderful person/wave duality
Yeah, I imagine they might win a Nobel prize for that, because that's a pretty significant breakthrough for quantum physics.
Same here. It's a nice bit of brightness that doesn't feel forced.
Your confession that you are ignorant means you are at risk of becoming a MAGA. Be careful, please.
Anton is a true homie. Feels like I don't understand half of the subject matter either, but I feel welcome nonetheless.
Thank you Anton. I've been following you from day 1
So that tree DIDN'T make a noise
Ah bingo lol
There is no tree
Unless an animal/insect Heard it
Only if all creatures in the area lacked ears.
Was there even a tree?
Wow! Holy shit! We are living through the most amazing and fast-changing era in physics, I never expected when I was at university in the 1980s
The term "holy shit" arose when a turd passed by St Thomas a-Becket was rescued from his chamber pot after his murder, dried in the sun and put on display as a holy relic at Canterbury Cathedral. It remained there until the reign of Queen Victoria, who decided t was too gross to be on public display and had it stored in the Cathedral archives where privileged guests could see it if they asked. That is still the case today. It is probably worth thousands of pounds, as it is well authenticated, whereas most holy relics are forgeries.
That ended a long time, now we are in fuck around era again.
This is groundbreaking, thanks for the update!
A wave particle is stable until a photon hits it, (ie, we "see") Once that happens the wave collapses and we see it as a particle. However the photon hitting it imparts some energy into the wave which the wave can use to "rebuild" it's stability and then it can continue it's journey as a wave.
this is mind boggling anton
thanks for the information and i hope to hear future updates
You are always talking about interesting things. And you explain things very well. Keep it up
Have loved your program for a long time. It is one of the best for popular physics, astronomy, and science in general. How can you put out so much interesting content? I'm glad you do.
The particle/wave image blew my mind. Great t-shirt 👍
Excellent video! Very exciting content. You're really talented when it comes to taking sophisticated concepts and translating them for us smooth brains.
I have a passion for physics and to think that if wasn't for my physics teacher my smooth brain wouldn't be filled with all this amazing stuff is scary
The wave function collapse doesn't stop the partickes from being waves and turn them into particles in the classical sense. Classical particles have both a definite place and a definite momentum; when I localize a quantum particle, I briefly have something with a definite place but with no definite momentum whatsoever.
So, what happens if you measure the momentum of a particle that's held in place, while simultaneously snapping a picture? Would they appear even more fuzzy, as their location becomes a cloud of probable locations?
@@WarhavenSC if you hold it in place you define its position to an extent (with an uncertainty DeltaX), then the momentum becomes undefined to some extent (DeltaP). There is a limit in quantum mechanics for knowing where a particle is and what its momentum is. DeltaX x DeltaP > h/2pi.
h = Planck's constant = 6.626×10−34 J⋅Hz−1
@@FredPlanatia The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, correct? But, if you're holding it in place, then it doesn't have any momentum, right? Or is a particle's momentum not the same thing as classic Newtonian momentum?
dear wonderful Anton, I don't always click your videos but when I do, I'm always amazed
Love you Anton, thank you for keeping us up with all the new science news. Hope you are doing well and not overworking yourself.
Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 😊😁
Interesting stuff as always 👍🏼
General relativity and quantum mechanics will never be combined until we realize that each individual observer is observing them both at different moments in time. Because causality has a speed limit (c) every point in space where one observes it from will be the closest to the present moment. When one looks out into the universe they see the past which is made of particles (GR). When one tries to look at smaller and smaller sizes and distances, they are actually looking closer and closer to the present moment (QM). The wave property of particles appears when we start trying to predict the future of that particle. It is a probability wave because the future is probabilistic. Wave function collapse is what we perceive as the present moment and is what divides the past from the future. GR is making measurements in the observed past and therefore, predictable. It can predict the future but only from information collected from the past. QM is attempting to make measurements of the unobserved future and therefore, unpredictable. Only once a particle interacts with the present moment does it become predictable. This is an observational interpretation of the mathematics we currently use based on the limited perspective we have with the experiments we choose to observe the universe with.
You cannot unify gravitation with electromagnetic, weak, and strong nuclear interactions because gravitation is a manifestation of space time curvature and the other interactions are not
yeah bud, we know
@@roberttarquinio1288 physics has always shown that the apparently unconnected and distant phenomenon are connected through some deeper pattern to which we are oblivious at first, such as what op is describing which is an interesting perspective
I have to say I’m extremely happy I found this channel searching for something related to if there was drag or any force stopping an object from reaching light speed. Have been a fan ever since, I think I enjoy this channel more after seeing some of the recent discoveries in space makes my imagination of some aspects more plausible.
Anton's awesome. You will be returning to this channel for years.
This is awesome! Thanks Anton and crew for sharing this! Also, please make the shirt!!!
Schrodinger's Cake: When you want to have your cake and eat it too 🎂 🤪
Thank you Anton I subscribe to you for a reason
Thanks Anton, great segment, enjoyed it.
Great presentation, beautiful pictures, thanks 👍😊
Очень интересное видео, спасибо что радуете контентом без рекламы ❤
This adds to the distillation we find over large spans of time, that we simply don't get to study in our bedroom laboratory at home. I used a word in a comment the other day, but I'm not going to use it here, as it seems to attract the mentality of "fringe" or "anti" thought which breaks with creative innovation. It is this same effect that can exist in small quantity in our own solar systems development over time, thus proving much more complex forms of chemistry in our own backyard. Thanks Anton, you rock!!! I love the more chemistry/physics side of your publications. This does apply to the cosmos also, while teaching us right here at home. Gr8! Peace ☮💜Love
Thank you for all your hard work!
Schrodinger's cat: being both well fed and hungry at the same time
Certainly applies to all the cats I've had!
Schrödinger’ cat: wanted to go inside and outside at the same time 🐈🚪
Every time I hear about the double slit experiment. I always wonder how they know reflection off from the edge of the slit isn't happening. Because I have never heard them state it can't happen. We also don't really know the reflective capacity of the quantum wave state in relation to the slit either. In laymen theory, wave form would increase the photons area of interaction making it easier to interact with the edge of the material even if it was the most thin opaque material we can fabricate. That material would still be many thousands the size of a single photon.
That literally is what's happening. That's the point. Waves interact with the edges and refract
@@geneticjen9312 Isn't the point that the two waves interfere with each other making a pattern only 2 waves can produce? The electron passes through BOTH slits as a wave, continues on as two waves and forms the interference pattern on the wall as waves collide after passing through the slits.
the photon behaves as though it's interacting with everything, including itself, like a wave would, but it can only have one effect, since it's a single quantum. it's not that the photon is hitting a larger area, it's that the photon kind of only really exists probabilistically as an effect on the observer.
Thanks for bringing us all these interesting science updates, Anton.
Anton, your content is incredible thank you so much
So am i correct that this is essentially a histogram of each particle ?
Seems like taking many, many snapshots just reveals an approximation of the probability distribution function, no ?
This is sort of the trick of Quantum. Since we can't observe Quantum phenomena without altering what it's doing, or potentially completely erasing what it was doing, we instead model the particle as a probability field. It's somewhere in this probability field, with decreasing chance as you get away from the center of this field. You have to look for the particle in the field until you find it by colliding something with it, thus telling you where the particle actually was. The probability field in that moment becomes a certainty. Soon after that, however, the probability field will grow again from uncertainty if you do not look at the particle again. A histogram is just a fancy way of saying probability field. It's a histogram who's sum is exactly 1!
What the experiment is utilizing, is that the atom itself doesn't get affected by light hitting it as much as a quantum particle would. Thus, you can take pictures of it, somewhat. Nevertheless, the atom is comprised of quantum particles, so it is a quantum packet, as they call it in the video. It has some aspects of quantum behavior. When the machine clamps the atoms into place, this restricts the movement of the quantum particles and so their probability fields drastically shrink and become small and bright, if you envision it as a heat map. So, that causes the atom to look less fuzzy. Hence, the images they're showing in the paper are heat maps, basically. Once you let go of the atom, it regains its original blurry nature gradually, as the uncertainties of the quantum particles within them cause a blurrier probability field.
@@thehaloofthesun7174 Reminds me of particle accelerator experiments we did at LBL. You cant measure directly so you instead watch millions of collisions and study the “histogram” (scattering/transmission angles and energies). You get very good at autocorrelation and statistical methods to tease out “truth.” Fun.
I’m over here yelling Bose-Einstein condensate
Puts a new emphasis on 'peek-a-boo' which starts off with me hiding & wavering & then turning into a particular person when I am seen. Just like the cat in the box I can't say I feel any different. But I was blown away by Anton's wave-particle graphic.
Thank you Anton. As always your information has blown my mind. I love it! Your explanations are well done for we laymen and scientists alike. I guess since scientists are observers, we’re all a scientist. 😀. I can’t imagine how much time you spend editing these. I appreciate you adding visuals to further my understanding as I picture everything.
We physicists *never* call it "Schrödingers wave equation", it's just "Schrödingers equation" --- while it does predict waves depending on the specifics of what it's describing, it's not always waves that are solutions to it, though you can always get oscillatory solutions from it --- oscillatory meaning the solutions are periodic in time, but waves are also periodic in space, and not all solutions are periodic in space.
Also, it seems "de Broglie" is pronounced "de-broy" (rhyming with "boy"), at least that's what it says on the Wikipedia page. It appears the family name is of Italian origin, and in the few centuries since the family emigrated to France, the pronunciation was simplified.
Oh, and if I recall correctly, all of my professors (when I was a student) pronounced "Germer", as a German word, meaning the "G" is a hard "G", as in "gift", not as in "giraffe", but to be honest I am not really sure how he pronounced his own name, but the son of Clinton Davisson (Richard or "Dick" Davisson, whom I knew at the University of Washington, among other professors and lecturers) also pronounced it the way I'm stating.
Gift in German translates to poison 🙌.
@@justsayen2024 😄
Okay
It is regrettable that Schroedinger's papers do not include a derivation of his equation. The original editor should have insisted that he include his derivation.
@skwalka6372 can you explain to me what this means a little more? Does it mean how he arrived at his solution?
When you photograph a wave, it is a continous observation, if you photograph a particle it is a single observable.
A wave function on the other hand is simply a mathematical description of the probability of a particle being in a location, you can theoretically restrict the location of the particle, but at quantum scales, particles can essentially go as far as they want as long as it is less than c and the uncertain location, but at these scales c is basically infinite.
Unfortunately neither can be photographed, only isolated and identified, and that data sent to an image generator. Unless we find a particle smaller than a photon that we can visualize, we can never "see" these particles.
@@A_Stereotypical_Guy But that’s about as close as you can get, and works the same way, so I’m not complaining. Any wavelength short enough to image an atom is also short enough to destroy the atom, same with molecules, and anything smaller than a small virus. Electron microscopes should give you some idea.
@@Auroral_Anomaly I mean yeah fair enough. I just think people reading should be aware of that and not misled. You know as well as I do some anti science nutter will use that language against the experiment. 🤷
@@A_Stereotypical_Guy I can’t stand the number of conspiracy theorists/dumb people on Anton’s channel.💀 If you are dumb or uneducated come here to learn, not post a dumb comment.🤦♂️
Thank you Anton for the amazing work and your wonderful smile
Hey Anton been a suscriber for years luv ya channel keep up the good work 👏
Of all the proposed interpretations, the David Deutsch's "Many Worlds" is one that scares me the most. I do distrust it a lot because the scientist in me protests what it implies (the whole "non sunt multiplicanda entia..." thing notwithstanding). I also feel that such an explanation would be "too elegant" for the "sticks, piece of duct tape and bubblegum" Universe we find ourselves in, one that appears to be non-reducible to one single model or formula, no matter how complex. And yet I also cannot settle for the Copenhagen Interpretation fully because my intuition screams that something important is missing from it entirely, and that "just following the math" is an approach that is just so wrong on a number of levels. I know that this is way beyond my limited intelligence to hope to solve, and still, whenever I have free time - I often return to the old "Wave Function Collapse" because just thinking about it both within and outside mathematics seems to generate other, unrelated, but nonetheless interesting ideas in the more "down to Earth" realm.
Bohmian mechanics is superior to both
@@brunolepri8177 Suffers from some similar issues to MW, (Occam's Razor, + empty branches, etc.) although I do like where Dewdney and Horton have taken it. Wouldn't necessarily call it "superior" though.
Math maybe is inaccurate, maybe fractal geometry or new mathematics may help.
Why does the Many Worlds interpretation scare you?
@support_people_not_evil A change of perspective may change this for you. I'm not sure what "mere existence" entails for you specifically, but as far as the kinds of questions like "Why is there Everything rather than Nothing?" or "how impossibly improbable is life?" (which I believe to be more a form of Survivor Bias than anything else), the "Infinity" which may end up being a useful mathematical abstraction (like zero) without an actual referent, or finite-ness of the Universe (which I just don't even see as particularly weird in the first place), - that kind of stuff is a lot less weird than seems at first glance. For example: If you spend around 1/10th of average human lifetime studying Cognitive/Behavioral sciences, and as result end up having a good idea of a large number of ways in which the human brain evolved to be a superior self-deception generator, and exactly how it evolved to be so self-deceptive - mere existence may just end up seeming a little less weird than before, Sagan's "We are the Universe looking at itself" will seem like an impossibly naïve idea, poorly reflective of reality, and Deutsch's approach to "Many Worlds" as described in "Fabric of Reality" or "The Beginning of Infinity" will definitely seem weirder than mere existence.
Cheers, all!
Very cool! Thanks, as always, for a great video.
Thankyou Anton you are a wonderful person! Science is amazing when we have channeler like your soul around, much love from Oz!
So atoms look like tiny little radishes. I knew it.
It’s Minecraft all the way down.
But somehow a lot more blue than expected.
Mix this with Attosecond snapshots & we're cooking 🍳 😋
Thanks for the video Anton
Great video! Nice to see something out of the ordinary!
Mind blowing. I am nowhere near drunk enough to understand this (pretty much the only way to really understand quantum things). I'll watch the video again later 🤣😂
So at absolute Zero the universe exists as a wave function. Heck of a mind thought contemplation. ;-}
Thank you Anton, great topic....
A measurement is like a snap shot of a frame of/in space-time ?
Great work Anton.
A tree in a forest is both standing and fallen until the particle interaction is observed.
... and we were worried about hearing it.
Hearing the noise is an observation. Therefore, if you hear a noise the tree has fallen into one of many possible quantum states. QED.
I get the feeling that the way atoms are observed is analogous to way biological cells were first investigated after being dyed and prepared for glass slides.
Biologists then had the problem of figuring out what was going on from observations of cells which were mutilated by the preparation process.
IMHO, when we find a way of observing atoms without confining them, it will be realised that their real anatomy will be totally different from what we believe now.
The idea that quantum state changes in a particular way only when it is observed, reinforces my opinion that we are presently observing a deformed entity.
A lot of this can be verbal trickery. There is no changing state when you look at the atom, that's just one interpretation of Quantum. The truth is we will never be able to observe quantum phenomena without some kind of "confining them". This is because you literally cannot interact with the particle without changing it, which is no different from "confining". It's so small, that it's sort of like trying to catch dust; the very movement of your arm moves the air and thus moves the dust away from you, essentially altering what the dust was doing and even completely erasing its current action. Quantum particles are so small that the typical notion of cause and effect breaks down; hence why they're called "quantum". Because of that, we measure Quantum processes with probability fields. The particle is somewhere "here" in this region, and it can be anywhere there, with decreasing chance from the center. Hence, why it behaves like a wave - the very existence of the particles alters the forces around them like droplets would alter the surface of water, creating ripples. In fact, Hydrodynamic Quantum Analogs can demonstrate many Quantum phenomena using Fluid Dynamics, such as by using just superheated oil with drops of water bouncing on top of them. The waves of the droplets guide the droplets themselves, depending on how they interfere with each other.
Imagine if you would, that we started thinking of the world purely in probability fields. You can probably imagine a heat map of where you physically are on any given day of the week. The warmer the region, the more likely you are to be there at the current moment. It's not until I actually try to find you that I know where you really are. Once I find you, the heat map shrinks to a red hot spot of certainty. As soon as I am not looking at you anymore, that heat map starts growing again and fading, becoming wilder and wilder over time until it looks like it did before I found you. This is sort of what the research in the video is showing. The holding of a particle in place is like me finding you and tackling you to the ground in the middle of whatever you were doing. The difference of course, is that when you "find" a Quantum particle, you typically erase what it was doing. It would be like me blindly tackling you to the ground when I find you, and then trying to figure out what you were doing before that - I can't really know except by the context. So, the atom, whose components are behaving in a Quantum way when they are not being observed, starts to look fuzzy as its particles suffer the effects of uncertainty while you look at it. When you "find" the atom by locking it into place, you restrict the particles to more certain locations, so the atom become less fuzzy looking, visually.
@@thehaloofthesun7174 Never say Never".
The future will prove you wrong.
@@farrier2708 ... You do realize I'm agreeing with you? We don't really know which Quantum Interpretation is correct. Thus, this image from the is just telling us things that we all already agree on. That they have definite positions when observed, and more definite positions when more observations are done.
@@farrier2708 On second thought, if the "never" you replied with is in regards to observing the quantum phenomena without confining it... Maaaaybe. From a scaling perspective, if you found small enough particles that they wouldn't affect larger particles much during collision, it may become a classical system again, if you believe in Bohm's interpretation of Quantum. The thing is, how would you interact with those super-small particles to figure out what happened? The issue is that even looking at these particles affects them. I feel like you would still need some way to confine the particles after collision and see where they ended up.
What kind of equipment did they use to get this image, I'd love to learn more about it, that is really impressive. A lot of people have probably overlooked the complexity of getting an image like this from a technological standpoint. The equipment that took this photo not only needed to be able to operate as an electron microscope, it also needed to be able to effectively photograph radio waves at the same minute scale.
Fascinating! Thanks for sharing!
Interestingly the Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment was originally dreamt up to highlight flaws in the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Despite this it has become part of the foundations of quantum mechanics
It's only foundational in the popular imagination and high school science texts. Physicists know how Schroedinger meant it.
Matter is frozen light.
Matter is clumps of interwoven electromagnetic fields. Light is energy flowing through the empty space in-between.
@@user-ty9ho4ct4knope, and nope.
People should learn physics before trying to contribute to it. (watching videos about physics news does not constitute learning physics)
@@drdca8263why don't you enlighten us
@@user-ty9ho4ct4k What, you want me to start teaching a class in the comments section?
Light is excitations of the photon field, while electrons are excitations in the electron field, etc. etc., and excitations in these different fields interact.
@@drdca8263 yeah. That's what I said bud. You're just getting jollies from arguing. Be gone
Excellent video, as always.
Great stuff! Thank you!!!
it's like Shiva is sleeping and we are decoding the matrix until he wakes up
Amazing!
Thank you Anton 👍
Fantastic Anton. Thanks!
You got the thumbs up in the first 5 seconds. Purrfect intro
Question; could you think of time as a phase transition of a Block Universe collapsing on one timeline? Like a bolt of lightning forming. A big field of potential that collapses on one path. There's even little branches of superposition. Experiments like this are like riding the bolt of lightning and reaching your hand out of the car. Pushing out into that Block Universe of potential.
The channel that reminds me science is moving forward! Thanks for your amazing content!
Thanks, Nice Info !
I dont know if I ever commented on a video of yours Anton, but I gotta say I love ya! you have such an expansive range of scientific interests, and make such well produced and extremely informative videos. I really appreciate all the hard work you put into your channel and always look forward to your next vid! thank you very much Anton!!!
How do you always find the newest, coolest science news? I love your show!
Thanks for presenting this stuff to us laymen, Anton. Super interesting, even if I can't do the math. 'Keeps me having a sense of wonder, which I enjoy.
just wow...the partice duality image is incredible!!!!
Hello wonderful Anton 😊
The fact that the detected range or a lithium atom's placement in space is measured close to a whole 1 micrometer is mind boggling! This is huge!
I saw this paper yesterday and was hoping you would do a video on this super cool image! I wonder if you have seen the paper that recently came out that seems to have made a wigner crystal out of experimenting with multilayered graphene
Thank you Anton!
Ah. The effects of Electromagnetic Radiation. This is fascinating stuff.
Amazing that this can be imaged at all!
nice, thanks Anton
Mate, your videos are insane. Thank you for nerding out o7.
1:43 i was trying to use words to show that form, it’s like a zipper with a spiral and that’s the sharing pattern
Wow. Thank you. I never knew this. Maybe we can get a better understanding of entanglement with this method.
8:35 what a wonderful person 😊
Thank you Anton. 🙂
We can move information faster than light in this way, by sending the data on this scale and not observing it. Then observe the data at the intended destination sooner than matter could arrive by light
Absolutely Stunning! That image has to be on a par with that of The CMB. :-)
Off topic.....but a severe geomagnetic storm is on its way to Earth, having at least 4 CMEs. Hope we get some cool aurorae!
It's been astonishing to see how awareness of the strange effects at the atomic level have crept into human consciousness over the decades, passing through all the stages of disbelief, ridicule, confusion, woo (spiritual/cosmic energy speculations, parallel universes...) and - slowly slowly - clarity.
Now a first image showing that it might be true - particles wave goodbye, and waves particle goodbye.
I'm ready to be done with the "woo" stage as it's extremely... not wonderful.
Hello, Wonderful Anton! 👋 I love your videos but this is one of your best! ❤ Thank you for doing your thing 💯🙏
This stuff bends my mind right around itself.
I was talking to somebody about this topic in the very moment you uploaded your video 😂
Great vidy : )
I'd like to know more about the thermal component and how do they insure theory temp is constant in the environment (scope).
Best
Thanks mate!
Note that you can do the same procedure also with classical random walk (Bownian motion) and obtain very similar pictures, coming from a Gaussian with linearly increasing standard deviation. The quantum behavior is not obvious from a single photograph, but they did measure the same way on lattices of different sizes, and the rate of increase of the standard deviation matched the quantum-mechanics-based prediction. That makes it unlikely to be a non-quantum effect.
Other than that, it is similar to earlier confirmations of Quantum Zeno Effect.