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The Daily Motivation

Understanding Your Place in the Universe | Bill Nye EP 522

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8893 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Bill Nye delves into the mind-bending world of quantum entanglement and the peculiar behavior of light particles. Exploring the fascinating phenomena of constructive and destructive interference, he challenges the misconceptions around psychic powers and emphasizes the importance of distinguishing scientific discoveries from pseudo-scientific ideas. Nye recounts a tale involving James Randi and Uri Geller, highlighting the need to approach extraordinary claims with a critical mindset. Delivered with Nye's signature wit, the discussion demystifies scientific concepts while cautioning against inappropriate interpretations.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:16.8

What do we understand or know about the universe expanding and accelerating and our own thoughts? Oh see this is a great question.

0:21.6

So is your brain expanding?

0:24.0

The matter of you, is it spreading out in some amazing way,

0:28.0

and is there some field going between stuff in some new way?

0:31.0

Be that as it may be. When scientists make discoveries about

0:36.7

entanglement of photons, so here you guys this is a digression but it's worthy of everybody who in a scientifically

0:44.4

and literate society to consider. Have you ever looked through a piece of

0:48.1

plastic what have you and seen a rainbow? Like they have glasses. Yes.

0:53.0

A way to explain that is light travels in waves.

0:58.0

So when they go through these finely divided pieces of plastic or glass, they constructively and

1:07.4

destructively interfere with themselves on the other side caused by the slits.

1:13.0

Picket fence that the light's going through.

1:15.5

Well, here's an strange and amazing freaking thing.

1:18.5

If you do experiments on light to observe waves, you will find waves. If you do experiments on light to find

1:24.7

particles you will find particles. And anybody even people who hate science fiction

1:30.4

and hate me and hate Star Trek have heard of photon torpedoes. We have

1:35.1

photons. Can observe photons. So here's a strange and astonishing and

1:40.0

amazing thing. If you set up a gizmo to shoot one photon at a time into the double slit,

1:48.0

you get the same pattern. It's as though the photons know each other. One thing about it is called entanglement, that somehow the photons are

1:55.8

entangled. When scientists discover that and prove it and do these experiments to demonstrate,

2:01.9

it doesn't mean that you have psychic powers.

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