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2022-11-09: What If Humanity Is Among The First Spacefaring Civilizations?

  • 17:08: ... Tch and zomgthisisawesomelol point out that Einstein was referring to wavefunction collapse when he said "spooky action at a distance" not quantum entanglement as ...
  • 17:23: ... was referring to general wavefunction collapse, in which the wavefunction appears to change everywhere at the instant a ...
  • 17:37: ... and basically discovered quantum entanglement in an effort to disprove wavefunction collapse through a reductio ad ...
  • 18:04: So, “spooky action at a distance” does refer to wavefunction collapse, including to the wavefunction collapse of entangled particles.

2022-10-26: Why Did Quantum Entanglement Win the Nobel Prize in Physics?

  • 03:22: They only gain specific values when  observed and the wavefunction “collapses”.

2022-03-08: Is the Proxima System Our Best Hope For Another Earth?

  • 16:39: ... on the last two episodes: the one on objective collapse theories, where wavefunction collapse is explained as a real, physical ...

2021-08-10: How to Communicate Across the Quantum Multiverse

  • 02:29: ... For example there’s the Copenhagen Interpretation, which says that the wavefunction collapses at the point of measurement, leaving only one reality; or de ...

2021-07-13: Where Are The Worlds In Many Worlds?

  • 05:22: ... of quantum mechanics - the Copenhagen Interpretation - tells us that the wavefunction “collapses” - it instantaneously shrinks from encompassing a huge range of possible ...

2021-03-23: Zeno's Paradox & The Quantum Zeno Effect

  • 06:53: ... to the wavefunction collapse picture, it has to make a choice - the superposition must vanish and the ...
  • 08:43: ... what exactly do we mean by a “measurement” and what do we mean by wavefunction collapse? ...
  • 09:55: ... idea is that measurement causes wavefunction collapse because it scrambles the delicate information connecting different parts ...
  • 10:38: ... to perfectly measure it, and that means decoherence - or the illusion of wavefunction collapse. ...
  • 10:49: So on to wavefunction collapse.
  • 12:15: And what is wavefunction collapse?
  • 06:53: ... to the wavefunction collapse picture, it has to make a choice - the superposition must vanish and the electron ...
  • 02:52: In the language of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, we say that the “wavefunction collapses” on observation.

2020-12-08: Why Do You Remember The Past But Not The Future?

  • 13:33: ... is that yes, IF quantum mechanics is fundamentally random, and IF the wavefunction collapse is a random rather than deterministic event, then time-reversal symmetry ...
  • 13:47: ... and at any rate invoking random collapse doesn’t tell you why the wavefunction collapses in one direction and not the ...

2020-10-27: How The Penrose Singularity Theorem Predicts The End of Space Time

  • 13:38: ... So we can look for those extra   things - the moment of wavefunction collapse, the guiding function or the empty wavefunctions of   ...

2020-02-24: How Decoherence Splits The Quantum Multiverse

  • 01:03: The upshot is that more and more physicists think that consciousness - and even measurement - don’t directly cause wavefunction collapse.
  • 14:12: Nor is it accepted that decoherence fully explains the measurement problem and wavefunction collapse.
  • 00:35: ... measurement problem - the question of why and where the blurry quantum wavefunction collapses into well-defined measurement ...
  • 14:19: ... Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, in which there is no wavefunction collapses at ...

2020-02-18: Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics?

  • 03:34: ... Wavefunction collapse seems essential because our large-scale, classical world isn’t made of ...
  • 04:46: ... wrote that wavefunction collapse must happen somewhere between the measuring apparatus and the conscious ...
  • 05:53: John von Neumann believed that wavefunction collapse must happen at the moment of conscious awareness of the result of an experiment.
  • 07:55: Therefore he concluded that conscious experience must itself must play a role in generating wavefunction collapse.
  • 10:41: ... Heisenberg’s later writing he states that the wavefunction collapse must be a continuous process between the measurement device and the ...
  • 07:26: They think you’re crazy - they tell you the wavefunction collapsed as soon as the physical experiment was completed.
  • 03:20: ... tells us that when we make that measurement the wavefunction “collapses” - it goes from a cloud of possible final destinations for the electron ...
  • 07:38: So there’s the conflict - different observers say the wavefunction collapses at different times.
  • 11:24: You talk to each other and agree that you observed the same result - the wavefunction collapses in the same way for both of you.
  • 03:20: ... tells us that when we make that measurement the wavefunction “collapses” - it goes from a cloud of possible final destinations for the electron to ...
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