24. What the Bleep We Do Know (about Quantum Physics)

2014-04-23

What the Bleep Do We Know? Quite a bit, actually. Including how observation alters particle interactions. Spoiler: electrons don’t actually get stage fright!

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Feynman’s Douglas Robb Memorial Lecture on photons & quantum mechanics (part 1 of 4) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai0o1hir2Rw

Intuitor’s Insultingly Bad Movie Physics reviews WtBDWK (Spoiler: it gets their worst rating.) - http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/bleep.html

David Albert (one of the interviewees for WtBDWK) denounces the film as “wildly and irresponsibly wrong.” - http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/02/david_albert_wh_1

SciShow covers Schrodinger’s Cat, another famous quantum physics thought experiment - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWMTOrux0LM

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