Many plans have been hatched to bring more water to CA, but it’s better to build desalination plants. And even better to power them with small nuclear reactors. Thirty desal plants produces a billion gallons/day and would cost the same as a water pipeline stealing water from the Pacific Northwest.
Discover Watergen Mobile Box — a small, independent unit that processes and purifies the air and converts it into fresh drinking water!
Shapes created by vortices in water often fall apart, but an odd quantum fluid made from ultracold atoms could support vortex knots that never lose their knottiness
Disney has finally taken us back to The Grid. This video goes over everything revealed in the official Tron Ares Trailer as well as other information we’ve learned.
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Nanoscale imaging and control of altermagnetism in manganese telluride is achieved, paving the way for the experimental realization of the theoretically predicted field of altermagnetism.
Sacred waters with remarkable healing powers. Ancient mystics who lived for hundreds of years. A scientific breakthrough may provide the answers to eternal life. Throughout history many have searched for the secret to everlasting life, but so far, it’s eluded them. But is it possible to cheat death and live forever? See more in Season 3, Episode 5, \.
Scientists have discovered a ‘concerning’ secret in the unknown depths of a 410 foot Great Blue Hole.
The mysterious sinkhole is located just off the coast of Belize where experts have managed to extract a sample of material from the bottom.
And now the sediment core they retrieved is revealing secrets from the past six millennia.
Background and ObjectivesAmong the participants of Alzheimer disease (AD) treatment trials, 40% do not show cognitive decline over 80 weeks of follow-up. Identifying and excluding these individuals can increase power to detect treatment effects. We aimed…
Physicist Dr. Lídia Del Rio, Essentia Foundation’s Research Fellow for Quantum Information Theory at the University of Zürich, explains to Hans Busstra one of the strangest quantum conundra confronting the foundations of physics: the Frauchiger-Renner (FR) thought experiment.
Scientific papers discussed in this video:
Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself.
Daniela Frauchiger & Renato Renner: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146… experiments in a quantum computer, Nuriya Nurgalieva, Simon Mathis, Lídia del Rio, Renato Renner: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06236 Other interesting links related to the video: Quantum ‘thought experiment software’ https://github.com/XuemeiGu/Quanundrum Great Quantum artwork by Nuriya Nurgalieva: https://www.theoryverse.com/art Part One: Modelling Observers 00:00 Introduction 04:13 The object-subject divide in quantum mechanics 07:58 How would you explain the Wigner’s Friend thought experiment? 09:40 Observations are not facts 12:16 Is collapse relative? 14:11 Losing information = measurement 15:38 How do you model the agent in quantum mechanics? 17:54 What is reversibility in QM? Part Two: Explaining the Frauchiger-Renner Thought Experiment 22:14 Lídia explains Maxwell’s Demon and how the demon can be modelled 29:28 Formatting the ‘hard drive’ of the demon equals the energy gained 31:20 Lídia explains the Frauchiger-Renner thought experiment 41:51 The quantum circuit of the FR experiment 50:31 Where the experiment gets really weird 54:52 How to make sense of the weirdness? Part Three: The Implications and Meaning of the FR Experiment 1:03:59 What assumptions CANNOT all be true? 1:07:47 Critique from the physics community on the FR experiment 1:13:30 The philosophical implications of the FR experiment 1:16:04 Agreeing or disagreeing on Heisenberg cuts 1:17:27 Quanundrum software to test thought experiments 1:20:14 (No title – you might want to add something here) 1:23:16 Does the FR experiment “favor” a many-worlds interpretation, or does it require an epistemic approach? 1:25:04 Every theory, at some point, breaks 1:26:57 On the (in)completeness of quantum theory 1:29:35 What the FR experiment could mean for quantum computers… 1:32:06 What makes the FR experiment REALLY strange? 1:35:31 You cannot have an outside view AND know what’s going on inside… 1:36:01 What does it mean philosophically? 1:40:16 What if objective collapse or many-worlds is true? 1:43:20 Do you believe in free will? 1:45:54 Lídia does believe in an objective world… 1:47:15 What would a world weirder than quantum mechanics look like? 1:52:37 Where does thinking about “different” universes become relevant for physics? 1:55:51 On What the Bleep Do We Know, quantum woo, and the real meaning of quantum mechanics… 1:57:52 Nature doesn’t care about our Heisenberg cut… 1:59:33 Quantum mechanics and non-dualism 2:02:04 Physicists should be aware of their own faiths, religion, and mortality… 2:04:06 On the nature of the self, and how Lídia’s work has informed her outlook on life 2:09:31 Final words Sesame Street Russian Dolls video, under fair use: • Sesame Street Matryoshka Doll 10 All music licensed under Storyblocks and Soundstripe All stock footage licensed under Storyblocks Interview content copyright by Essentia Foundation, 2025 www.essentiafoundation.org.
Thought experiments in a quantum computer.
Nuriya Nurgalieva, Simon Mathis, Lídia del Rio, Renato Renner:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.
Other interesting links related to the video:
Quantum ‘thought experiment software’
