Hi Guys
I don't know if you can access BBC catch up episodes from where you are
but if you can have a look at this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04tr9x9/the-secrets-of-quantum-physics-1-einsteins-nightmare
It's about an hour long and covers some of what you're talking about.
Here's the blurb:
"The Secrets of Quantum Physics - 1. Einstein's Nightmare
Professor Jim Al-Khalili traces the story of arguably the most
important, accurate and yet perplexing scientific theory ever - quantum
physics.
The story starts at the beginning of the 20th century with scientists
trying to better understand how light bulbs work. This simple question
led them deep into the hidden workings of matter, into the sub-atomic
building blocks of the world around us. Here they discovered phenomena
unlike any encountered before - a realm where things can be in many
places at once, where chance and probability call the shots and where
reality appears to only truly exist when we observe it.
Albert Einstein hated the idea that nature, at its most fundamental
level, is governed by chance. Jim reveals how, in the 1930s, Einstein
thought he'd found a fatal flaw in quantum physics because it implies
that sub-atomic particles can communicate faster than light in defiance
of the theory of relativity.
For thirty years his ideas were ignored. Then in the 1960s a brilliant
scientist from Northern Ireland called John Bell showed there was a way
to test if Einstein was right and quantum mechanics was actually
mistaken. In a laboratory in Oxford, Jim repeats this critical
experiment - does reality really exist or do we conjure it into
existence by the act of observation.
The results are shocking!"
You can replace 'observe' with 'experience' if you want.
According to Khalili a bunch of hippy scientists at Berkeley were
responsible for the initial thrust of taking Bell's ideas and making
them work - although it was several years before they were sufficiently
refined. I wouldn't say the results were 'shocking' - at least not if
you've been reading Pirsig!
Interesting stuff though and food for thought.
Enjoy :)
Horse
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our breath away."
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