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EPISODE · Sep 28, 2018 · 12 MIN

17: Quantum Conspiracy Theory

from syzygy · host Chris Stewart

Want to help us make Syzygy even better? Tell your friends and give us a review, or show your support on Patreon: patreon.com/syzygypod———————————Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.Visit us at syzygy.fm or find us on Twitter: @syzygypodThings we talk about in this episode:Quantum weirdness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kb1VT0J3DEQuantum entanglement: https://www.quantamagazine.org/entanglement-made-simple-20160428/The MIT/Vienna experiment: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/miot-lfa082018.php

Summer holidays are over, though Emily is still running around overseas enjoying the astronomer lifestyle. So Chris shares a story that tickled him this week, about a bunch of physicists and astronomers who showed that if quantum theory is just a cosmic magic trick played on researchers, that trick had to have been set up before the earth was even formed.

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