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The universe is a strange place filled with intrigue and wonder throughout human history
We've developed theories about how our universe works based on the available evidence at the time this led to religion philosophy
And eventually science but as science has explored the universe at a subatomic
Quantum level the real truth underpinning all of reality has revealed itself to be stranger than any fiction
Here are 10 quantum physics facts to blow your mind
Number 10 is entanglement
Entanglement is easily one of the most bizarre parts of quantum physics when two particles come into contact with each other they create an
Entangled relationship now imagine you keep one particle. Let's call it Tom
then you send the other particle will call it Jerry - a
Scientist living thousands of miles away you would imagine that the particles would now have no relationship because they are so far apart
But you'd be wrong
If you change the direction that Tom is spinning in Jerry thousands of miles away will start spinning in the exact opposite direction
Instantaneously, it's not fully understood how this is possible
But we now know for a fact that this spooky behavior is real because in July of 2019
Scientists finally photographed entangled particles for the first time suddenly. I'm in the mood to watch Tom and Jerry cartoons. Excuse me
Number nine is physical duality
Our natural experience of the world is that things have a definitive
Singular state a cheeseburger is a cheeseburger and that's fantastic because they're so tasty
you'd be shocked if you were about to eat a burger and it suddenly turned into broccoli, which
We're still what if the cheeseburger was actually both a cheeseburger and broccoli at the same time?
Thankfully our experience of the world does not work like this. However at a quantum level subatomic particles like electrons
appear to have what is known as wave particle duality many physicists believe that particles are both physical points in space and
At the very same time have wave-like properties, but how can an electron be both a particle and a wave at the same time?
What's even more mind-bending is that some physicists believe even large objects such as human beings are waves as well
Well, yeah if you dance, right
Number eight is consciousness creates the universe
Now this one is controversial and has been debated for a hundred years
But nonetheless it's a fascinating theory which still has the support of famous
Physicists such as Henri staff this theory argues that consciousness is essential to the universe
Not only that but that consciousness in some way creates the universe
Around us thinking back to the idea of things being both particles and waves at the same time
many believe that the reason we experience the world as solid objects is
Because the wave has to collapse into a solid point when its measured
Henry staff believes that our minds are what causes this collapse when we look at things the bizarre consequence of this
Is that when we are not looking at something it doesn't really exist in any solid state. This is true
It has our minds which bring reality into being you're literally creating me right now
Number seven is time doesn't exist
In his book the order of time theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli
Makes the shocking claim that time itself does not exist
He believes that at a quantum level the universe can be understood without even thinking about time
Rovelli points out that while we see the world changing in front of our eyes because time flows forward
Quantum mechanics shows that this is nothing more than an illusion
Our brains have evolved to understand the universe and experience it in a certain way at a quantum level things happen
But not in any linear way cause and effect break down according to reveille
Because they don't actually exist in the way
We have normally thought he argues that the universe is chaotic and that we only order this
Information in order to make sense of the universe when essentially the universe is a collection of random happening events
See I can get down with that when I agree cuz my entire life is just full of all kinds of weird random events
Like that number six are hidden variables
In our day to day lives if we cannot
understand something
We tend to think that we are missing something if you try to fix a car engine, for example
And can't figure out why it isn't working
It's probably because you don't currently possess the knowledge required to fix it in quantum physics
A similar concept is known as the hidden variable theory
This means that quantum physics appears so bizarre to us and so different from our daily experiences that we must be missing variables
Which would explain it and make it all understandable
However, some physicists believe that hidden variables by their very nature are undetectable. This means that we will never be able to understand reality
No matter how hard we try from this perspective
The universe will always be mysterious which I'm okay with because I love a good mystery. Okay
Number five is the many-worlds hypothesis
Quantum physics is very strange what with ideas like consciousness?
collapsing waves into single points and making reality as it turns out a lot of
Physicists agree and that's why many believe they've solved this weirdness with their own theory the many-worlds interpretation
but as with all things quantum
Even the solution that quantum weirdness has mind-blowing
Consequences theories suggest that every single possibility plays out at a quantum level your subjective
Experiences of a world where the wavefunction collapsed into one state but there are potentially an infinite number of other yous
Experiencing different states that means that there's a version of you who is a famous actor and another version of you who is in jail
For something stealing something you've badboy each moment. You split into more and more versions of yourself. Now, that's an identity crisis
Number four is quantum immortality
Staying with the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics for a moment
Another strange consequence is the possibility of living forever. In fact Hugh Everett who created the many-worlds interpretation
believed that the existence of many worlds guaranteed him immortality
everett theorized that if every possibility plays out that there would be
worlds where the conscious observer dies and ones where they lived in fact Everett believed that the conscious
Observer could never truly die and would always exist in one of those
Worlds others around that person might experience them dying in their world
But the person's consciousness would simply split off into another existence where they managed to escape death
Now I know these theories are still debated
but personally I really like it because it's a lot closer to Rick and Morty which is a
Fantastic show if you have not seen it, they talk about stuff like this
So good
Number three is future Big Bang's
Cosmology tells us that the ultimate fate of the universe may be a very dark one indeed but quantum physics may provide a way out
Of this depressing end. You see a popular theory in cosmology
is that all the matter in the universe will eventually
Unwind until there is no stars planets or fast food outlets. I kid fast food will always exist
but seriously
That's what's called the big freeze where the universe will go dark and essentially be so cold that nothing can really happen there anymore
however
some quantum physicists believe that in this event over trillions and trillions of years a phenomenon called quantum tunneling would eventually
Spontaneously create a new Big Bang from the ultimate death of the universe would come a brand new universe populated by stars
planets people and yes again
fast-food outlets
Number two is quantum biology
Biologists have always tried to understand life at a macroscopic level but a new field known as quantum biology is adding its own
mind-blowing insights to the animal kingdom quantum biologists believe that natural selection has led some
Organisms if not all to use quantum effects in some way
for example
The way plants turn photons of light into energy seems to require that plant biology uses quantum events to make this possible
others theorize that the way that birds navigate using electromagnetic fields may also require
Biology to process quantum information but most striking of all our theories of the mind which speculate that
Quantum events are not just used by the human brain, but may actually be consciousness itself
Operating at a deep level within matter if there's never been a superhero called the quantum man
Sign me up marble looking at you. You need new content your characters are dying and I could be the first bald superhero, right?
I think there's no bald superheroes. Anyway, sign me up and
Number one is something from nothing
When we think of the distance between objects and space we usually have the impression of a dark void space is a vacuum
There's no air and therefore there's nothing in space
However, quantum physicists are showing that this idea is incorrect space contains things called virtual particles
Which usually appear in pairs and then instantaneously cancel each other out these particles appear to?
Spontaneously arise which is akin to something coming from nothing. It almost seems like a miracle but where it gets really bizarre
Is that physicists like Lawrence Krauss?
Believe that empty space can even generate the fabric of space and time from this void
This may be how our universe began in the first place. In fact everything that's around you came from nothing
We are literally
nothing except for you guys to everything to me you
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