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Parallel Worlds Probably Exist. Here’s Why

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a portion of this video was sponsored by

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Norton 360 classical mechanics is great

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if you know the state of a system say

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the position and velocity of a particle

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then you can use an equation Newton's

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second law to calculate what that

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particle will do in the future in

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quantum mechanics if you know the

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quantum state of a particle that is its

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wave function you can use the

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Schrodinger equation to calculate what

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that particle will do in the future

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usually it spreads out over time as it

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is doing here note to make this

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animation we really solved the

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Schrodinger equation so there's a

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beautiful symmetry here if you know the

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initial state you can use an equation to

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evolve that state smoothly and

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continuously into the future the problem

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is in quantum mechanics we never

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actually observe the wave function like

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this instead when we measure it we find

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the particle at a single point in space

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so how are we to reconcile the

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spread-out wavefunction evolving

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smoothly under the Schrodinger equation

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with this point like particle detection

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now I think it's understandable that

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when the founders of quantum theory

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approached this problem they considered

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the measurement more real than the

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wavefunction after all the measurement

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was something we had actually observed

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and it matches our experience of a world

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of matter particles it was harder to say

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what the wavefunction was exactly

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Schrodinger formulated his wave equation

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because scientists notably debroglie

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suspected that matter has wave-like

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properties but it took a third physicist

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Max Born to propose how we should

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interpret the wave function at each

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point in space the wave function has a

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complex amplitude essentially just a

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real number plus an imaginary number Max

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Born suggested if you take that

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amplitude and square it you get the

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probability of finding the particle

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there the fact that you have to square

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the amplitude actually appears as a last

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minute footnote in boran's paper but

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that is how probability was introduced

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into the core of our picture of reality

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that's a pretty big philosophical leap I

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mean no longer is the universe

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deterministic

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this made a lot of scientists especially

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Einstein uncomfortable but the born rule

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as it is now called remains at the heart

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of quantum mechanics because it is

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spectacularly successful at predicting

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the outcomes of experiments so the way

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quantum mechanics came to be understood

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and the way I learned it is that there

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are two sets of rules when you're not

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looking the wave function simply evolves

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according to the Schrodinger equation

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but when you are looking when you make a

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measurement the wavefunction collapses

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suddenly and irreversibly and the

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probability of measuring any particular

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outcome is given by the amplitude of the

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wave function associated with that

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outcome squared now Schrodinger himself

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hated this formulation which is actually

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why he invented the famous Schrodinger's

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cat thought experiment put a cat in a

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box with a radioactive atom add a

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radiation detector that triggers the

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release of poisonous cyanide gas now

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although it was only meant as a thought

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experiment Schrodinger helpfully notes

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this device must be secured against

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direct interference by the cat anyway

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the whole point of the experiment is to

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magnify the state of the atom up to the

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state of something macroscopic and

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tangible he could have picked anything

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it didn't have to be alive but

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Schrodinger selected a cat if the atom

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decays the detector detects radiation

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releases the poison and the cat dies if

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the atom doesn't decay the detector

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doesn't detect radiation poison is not

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released and the cat remains alive since

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the state of the cat and detector

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apparatus are directly tied to the state

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of the atom we say they are entangled

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where things get weird is that according

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to quantum mechanics the state of the

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atom does not have to be either decayed

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or not decayed generally it's in a

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superposition of both decayed and not

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decayed at the same time assuming no

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measurements have been made this

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superposition state of the atom gets

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