The quantum revolution: The way the world is
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
4.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In the final episode of this Tech Tonic series, we hear how radical quantum ideas are reshaping our fundamental understanding of the universe. Nobel Prize winner Anton Zeilinger tells the FT’s Madhumita Murgia about the future of teleportation and the quantum internet; quantum computing pioneer David Deutsch makes the case for the theory that we live in a multiverse; and FT innovation editor John Thornhill speaks to physicist Carlo Rovelli about relational quantum mechanics.
Presented by Madhumita Murgia and John Thornhill, produced by Josh Gabert-Doyon and Edwin Lane. Executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Sound design by Breen Turner and Samantha Giovinco. Original music by Metaphor Music. The FT’s head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
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| 0:00.0 | The FT News Briefing is supported by Equinole, the UK's energy partner. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at equinole.co.uk |
| 0:11.6 | By this point in our series on quantum technology, |
| 0:15.2 | it should be pretty clear that when you travel into the realm of the very, |
| 0:19.4 | very, very small, the subatomic level, things get pretty weird. |
| 0:25.8 | Our common sense on the standing of reality becomes warped and breaks down. |
| 0:30.5 | Things are not as they seem. |
| 0:32.7 | But we've kept one of the weirdest examples of quantum technology, |
| 0:36.8 | the most mind-bending and confounding one to last. |
| 0:40.6 | In this, our final episode in the series. |
| 0:43.8 | So here goes. |
| 0:45.6 | It starts in Austria, early 2000s. |
| 0:49.2 | Picture a bunch of seven or eight scientists at work in the dark, |
| 0:54.2 | on the shores of Vienna's famous river. |
| 0:57.5 | We were standing there on the banks of the river Daniel during the night |
| 1:02.8 | and two in the experiment, and I was kind of really, really fun, really nice. |
| 1:09.6 | That's the Austrian physicist Anton Zylinger. |
| 1:12.7 | And I wanted to speak to him about this experiment because it's really fascinating. |
| 1:17.4 | It's an experiment that helped him win last year's Nobel Prize in physics, |
| 1:22.0 | an experiment in teleportation. |
| 1:25.6 | You have a photon which you want to teleport, so you prepare it in a quantum state, |
| 1:29.7 | and then you have the cetition in the angel state, |
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