Einstein's Quantum Riddle | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

Einstein's Quantum Riddle | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS

Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance,” but today quantum entanglement is poised to revolutionize technology from computers to cryptography. Physicists have gradually become convinced that the phenomenon—two subatomic particles that mirror changes in each other instantaneously over any distance—is real. But a few doubts remain. NOVA follows a ground-breaking experiment in the Canary Islands to use quasars at opposite ends of the universe to once and for all settle remaining questions.

(Premiered January 9, 2019)

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
03:52 Is Quantum Entanglement Real?: Canary Islands Experiment
08:10 The Beginnings of Quantum Mechanics
15:26 Quantum Mechanics Explained by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen
22:39 Developments from Discovery of Quantum Theory
27:11 The First Quantum Entanglement Experiment
32:04 Quantum Computers Solving Real-World Problems
39:02 Loopholes of Quantum Entanglement
45:20 The Results of the Canary Islands Experiment
47:47 Quantum Entanglement in Modern Physics

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