
Geothermal Energy: How Big is the Potential?
There is a lot of energy right under our feet, a relic from Earth’s hot past as a ball of plasma. But how much can geothermal energy realistically do for us? What technologies are currently being pursued, what are the risks, and is it even carbon neutral? In this video Sabine Hassenfelder has collected all […]
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Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Effects?
- Frank
- November 21, 2022
- Consciousness
- consciousness quantum physics
- hossenfelder
- Physics
- quantum consciousness
- quantum healing
- Quantum Mechanics
- quantum mechanics and consciousness
- Quantum Physics
- science
- science without the gobbledygook
- Von Neumann
- what does quantum mechanics have to do with consciousness
- wigner von neumann
- Wigner's friend
Sabine Hossenfelder examiens the connection between consciousness and quantum physics.
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Is The Quantum Hype Bubble About To Burst
- Frank
- November 5, 2022
- are quantum computers real
- do quantum computers work
- hossenfelder
- quantum advantage
- Quantum Computing
- quantum computing hype
- quantum computing hype problem
- quantum computing hype vs reality
- quantum hype
- Quantum Mechanics
- Quantum Physics
- quantum physics explained
- Quantum Supremacy
- quantum technology
- quantum technology bubble
- quantum winter
- science hype
- science without the gobbledygook
- technology hype
- what can quantum computer do
How much of what you hear about quantum computing is real promise and how much of it is hype? What is the “quantum winter” that so many physicists have been warning of? In this video Sabine takes a look.
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What is “Nothing”?
- Frank
- September 27, 2022
- hossenfelder
- is vacuum nothing
- levels of nothing
- nothing
- Philosophy
- Physics
- science
- science without the gobbledygook
- vacuum
- vacuum physics
- what is nothing
- what is vacuum
- why is there something and not nothing
- why is there something instead of nothing
- why is there something rather than nothing
This video spans the realms of physics and philosophy and was inspired by “Levels of Nothing” by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, in the book “The Mystery of Existence: Why is there Anything At All” by John Leslie and Robert Lawrence Kuhn.
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5G: The Trouble With the New Phone Network
- Frank
- September 4, 2022
- 5G
- 5g health risks
- 5g health risks 2022
- 5g network
- 5g technology
- 5g wireless technology
- 5th generation wifi
- 5th generation wireless technology
- 6g
- 6g technology
- hossenfelder
- is 5g dangerous
- phone network
- science without the gobbledygook
- the problem with 5g
- the trouble with 5g
- weather forecast problem
- what is 5g
- wireless network
5G isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be. Don’t get me wrong, it’s usually faster, but the EM spectrum it uses has issues. Sabine explains. Correction to what I say at 15 mins 57 seconds: It’s should be 3 orders of magnitude, not 30. You’d think that technology and science make a good team, […]
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Counterfactual Quantum Computation is Really Weird
- Frank
- August 8, 2022
- computer that doesn't compute
- counterfactual
- counterfactual computation
- counterfactual quantum computation
- hossenfelder
- Physics
- Quantum
- quantum computation
- Quantum Mechanics
- quantum mechanics explained
- quantum mechanics simple
- quantum mechanics weird fact
- science without the gobbledygook
Events that could have happened but didn’t, so called counterfactual events, are but a mind-game in our reality. In quantum reality, however, they are quite real indeed. In this video I explain how this can be used to do a computation without actually running the computer. This is called “counterfactual computation” (or “counterfactual quantum computation” […]
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Quantum Games — Really!
- Frank
- July 10, 2022
- educational games
- free online games
- free physics games
- free quantum games
- games physics
- hossenfelder
- Quantum
- Quantum Computing
- quantum games
- quantum gate
- quantum measurement
- Quantum Mechanics
- quantum mechanics games
- Quantum Physics
- quantum superposition
- science without the gobbledygook
- video games
Sabrina Hassenfeld shows off games that teach quantum physics.
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Can particles really be in two places at once?
- Frank
- June 14, 2022
- can particles be in two places at once
- hossenfelder
- is quantum mechanics weird
- Physics
- Quantum
- Quantum Mechanics
- quantum mechanics simple
- quantum mechanics strange
- quantum mechanics wave function
- Quantum Physics
- science without the gobbledygook
- superpositions
- what does quantum mechanics mean
- what is a superposition
- what is wrong with quantum mechanics
Here’s another stellar video from Sabine Hossenfelder. Today I tell you what happened when I wrote an opinion piece for the Guardian about quantum computing, had to explain what a qubit is, and decided against using the phrase that it “can be in two states at the same time”. What happened next and what did […]
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Has quantum mechanics proved that reality does not exist?
- Frank
- February 26, 2022
- experiment shows reality does not exist
- frauchinger-renner
- frauchinger-renner paradox
- hossenfelder
- paradox
- Physics
- Quantum
- Quantum Mechanics
- Quantum Physics
- quantum physics reality
- quantum reality
- reality does not exist
- science without the gobbledygook
- Wigner's friend
- Wigner's friend experiment
In the past years you may have seen headlines claiming that objective reality does not exist because some quantum mechanics experiment has shown it. In this video Sabine Hossenfelder explains what this is all about and why this experiment doesn’t show that reality doesn’t exist.
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How bad is plastic?
- Frank
- November 9, 2021
- bacteria eat plastic
- biodegradable plastic
- biodegradable plastic hype
- Environment
- environmental pollution
- hossenfelder
- how bad is plastic
- how bad is plastic pollution
- microplastics
- microplastics in food
- Plastic
- plastic pollution
- plastic problem
- plastic waste
- science
- science without the gobbledygook
- why is plastic a problem
Sabine Hossenfelder examines how bad plastic is. Time stamps: 0:00 Intro 0:31 Sponsor Message 1:22 What is plastic? 2:46 How long does plastic last? 4:49 Why worry about plastic? 8:50 Bacteria that digest plastic 12:34 Are bioplastics any good? 15:36 Steel from plastic
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