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Speaker 1: Big Lebowski meets Quantum Leap. It's my new pitch. Hi.

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Speaker 1: I'm Jorge. I'm a cartoonists and the creator of PhD Comments.

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Speaker 1: And I'm Daniel. I'm a particle physicist, a terrible bowler,

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Speaker 1: We Have No Idea About All the Mysteries of the Universe.

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Speaker 1: So welcome to our podcast Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe,

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Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radio. That's Right, in which

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Speaker 1: And the reason is that these these barriers and a

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Speaker 1: quantum level are just different than the barriers we have

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Speaker 1: here at the macroscopic level, and electrons are different from

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Speaker 1: bowling balls. Right. We like to think of them that

428
00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:23,440
Speaker 1: way because it's useful, because the way we understand the

429
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Speaker 1: unknown is to do it in terms of the known.

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Speaker 1: But in the end, these things can do things, These

431
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Speaker 1: quantum mechanical things can do things that the classical things,

432
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Speaker 1: the macroscopic things that we're familiar with, just can't do.

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Speaker 1: And one of those things is the electron. It has

434
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Speaker 1: a chance to just ignore the barrier. It's like every

435
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Speaker 1: time it goes up against the barrier, a die is

436
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Speaker 1: rolled and if it comes up you know, all sixes,

437
00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:48,480
Speaker 1: it's like, haja barrier, I get to ignore you. You

438
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Speaker 1: said every time it goes up against the barrier, Meaning

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Speaker 1: is it like it's always pushing against the barrier or

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Speaker 1: is it like a continual roll to die or what? No,

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Speaker 1: that's a good point, And the way I was speaking

442
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Speaker 1: about it, it's wrong because I was talking about it

443
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 1: like having a classical path, like it has a position

444
00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,040
Speaker 1: and a velocity at every moment. In reality, it's motion

445
00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,040
Speaker 1: is governed by this wave equation, right, the wave function

446
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Speaker 1: that we used to describe where it is, and that

447
00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:16,440
Speaker 1: tells us where it's more likely to be and where

448
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 1: it's less likely to be. And we know that for

449
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Speaker 1: it to get from one side of the barrier to

450
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Speaker 1: the other, it has to go through the barrier. We

451
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Speaker 1: know this because it can be inside the barrier. Like

452
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Speaker 1: in principle that should be impossible, right, like, how do

453
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Speaker 1: you how can you be inside the barrier? You're not

454
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Speaker 1: breaking the bearer, The bear is not destroyed, but it

455
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Speaker 1: can sort of like defy the barrier, can sort of

456
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Speaker 1: ignore the barrier. It has a probability to just sort

457
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Speaker 1: of like shrug off the barrier the way a teenager

458
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Speaker 1: shrugs off a curfew. You know. So the trap, the

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Speaker 1: magnetic field that trap is traveling the electron doesn't affect

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Speaker 1: the probability of where the electron can be, or it

461
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Speaker 1: does doesn't. It doesn't it like squeeze the probability cloud

462
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Speaker 1: of the electron or something like that. It totally does.

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Speaker 1: It affects it, but it can't trap it completely. It's

464
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Speaker 1: just impossible to trap it completely unless the barrier is

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Speaker 1: infinitely high, the barrier is infinitely strong, then the electron

466
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Speaker 1: is totally trapped. But as long as the barrier is

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Speaker 1: not infinite, right, imagine the swimming pool. It's infinitely deep,

468
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Speaker 1: then the quantum mechanical bowling ball can't get out. But

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Speaker 1: if the if it's even if it's super high, it's

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Speaker 1: a billion miles high, but not infinite, then the quantum

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Speaker 1: mechanical one can get to the other side. It just

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Speaker 1: has a chance. But you're right, it does affect that

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Speaker 1: it squeezes those probabilities. The probabilities are shaped by the barrier.

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Speaker 1: But you're saying there's still a little tiny probability that

475
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Speaker 1: it's going to jump over, not jump over, but go through, right,

476
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Speaker 1: And the probability is smaller if as the barrier gets wider,

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Speaker 1: and it's smaller as the barrier gets taller, So that

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Speaker 1: that all makes sense. The thing that's confusing is like,

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Speaker 1: how do you explain what it's doing in the barrier?

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Speaker 1: Is it just like ignoring the barrier and you just

481
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Speaker 1: have a chance to avoid the barrier. It's it's hard

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Speaker 1: to come up with a sort of like an intuitive

483
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Speaker 1: under standing of what it's doing there you know, it's

484
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Speaker 1: like it's in the Noman's land. It's in the place

485
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Speaker 1: where nothing should be, but there it is, right is it?

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Speaker 1: Because the bowling ball is not really a bowling ball, right,

487
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Speaker 1: it's more like a cloud, kind of like a like

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Speaker 1: a fog. And you're saying, sometimes the fog can sort

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Speaker 1: of extend and kind of appear on the other side

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Speaker 1: of the swimming pool. If you measure an electron, you say, okay,

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Speaker 1: it's in my trap, and then you ask where is

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Speaker 1: my electron likely to be in one second? Then most

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Speaker 1: likely it's to be it's going to be in the trap.

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Speaker 1: There's a little bit of probability it's going to be

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Speaker 1: in the barrier, and there's a little bit of probability

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Speaker 1: it's going to be in the next one. Right, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be in the next trap. So you know,

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Speaker 1: after you know where electron is, that doesn't tell you

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Speaker 1: where it is necessarily a second later. It's just you

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Speaker 1: have a probability distribution of where you're going to find it,

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Speaker 1: and we can candulate those probabilities using the Shortinger equation.

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Speaker 1: But that's again, that's just a description of what we

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Speaker 1: have observed. Right, the exhorting equation itself is not an explanation.

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Speaker 1: It's just like a mathematical formulation the success He describes

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Speaker 1: what we've observed. Oh, I see, it's a probability of

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Speaker 1: where it's going to be if you measure it. So

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Speaker 1: if you measure it, there's a tiny little probability you're

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Speaker 1: going to measure it in your neighbor's pool. Yes, exactly.

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Speaker 1: And it's tempting to think, oh, well, that's just particles. Right,

510
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,359
Speaker 1: particles are here, and then particles are their. Right, that's

511
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Speaker 1: not the property that allows the electron to quantum tunnel. Right.

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Speaker 1: You can have that property in an infinitely deep swimming

513
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Speaker 1: pool where electrons can't tunnel, right, an infinitely deep potential well, right,

514
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Speaker 1: the electrons can't get out. That's the only one that

515
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Speaker 1: can completely hold them. But in now well, electrons can

516
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Speaker 1: still be here and then later be over there, and

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Speaker 1: then later be over here, as long as you're still

518
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Speaker 1: within the well. But if the wall is not infinitely high,

519
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 1: then there there's a probability that randomly it's gonna ignore

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Speaker 1: or jump over the barrier and be on the other side.

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Speaker 1: If you measure that's right, not jump over, but go through, right,

522
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Speaker 1: jumping over means why not jump over? Well, jumping over

523
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Speaker 1: means don't really know, right, you do not like he

524
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: was hit inside and then it was outside, and you

525
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Speaker 1: don't know. You don't really know what the path it

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Speaker 1: took to get outside, right. Well, to get over, it

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Speaker 1: would need to have enough energy to go over the barrier, right,

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Speaker 1: and that energy has to come from somewhere, and we

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Speaker 1: have energy conservation in our universe, and so it can't

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Speaker 1: go over the barrier, right. It's like the raccoon pushing

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Speaker 1: the bowling ball. If it doesn't have enough energy to

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Speaker 1: push it over the lip, it's just never going to

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Speaker 1: go over the lip. Um. And the reason this works,

534
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Speaker 1: we can do the calculations, and the reason it works

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Speaker 1: is because the electron is in the barrier. Like bear,

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Speaker 1: quantum barriers are just different from classical barriers. They're sort

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Speaker 1: of optional. You just always have a chance to ignore them,

538
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 1: you know. It's like a speed traps. Sometimes the copsies

539
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Speaker 1: you and sometimes he doesn't. But if you find it

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Speaker 1: inside the barrier, doesn't it mean it gained a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of energy. No, it can be inside the barrier,

542
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Speaker 1: meaning that it doesn't have enough energy to be there.

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00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: But it's there anyway, where does the probability come from?

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like for it to be probable,

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Speaker 1: He's who have some sort of physical explanation, doesn't it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And the explanation is that the bowling ball analogy is

547
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: wrong because this is not a bowling ball and these

548
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:13,760
Speaker 1: are not a swimming pool. It's a weird, lobby, wavy,

549
00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:17,000
Speaker 1: fuzzy thing that can do this thing that no bowling

550
00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:19,840
Speaker 1: ball or swimming pool can do. And the barrier also

551
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,600
Speaker 1: is a little fuzzy, right that you can't build a

552
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:27,920
Speaker 1: perfectly strong barrier unless it's infinitely high um. In quantum mechanics,

553
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 1: barriers are not the same as swimming pools, right, that

554
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: they're different. And so the analogy breaks down, and these

555
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 1: things can do things that that the things were familiar

556
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Speaker 1: with can't do, and one of them is that sometimes

557
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: they sort of ignore each other. With that, let's take

558
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Speaker 1: a break. We'll be back in just a short minute.

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Speaker 1: But um, and the interesting thing is that it's not

560
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Speaker 1: just electrons, right, like you're talking about all particles. Oh yeah,

561
00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,479
Speaker 1: electrons are just the simplest case, But any quantum mechanical particle,

562
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 1: any particle that's motion is primarily described by like the

563
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,479
Speaker 1: shortening air equation. So single particles or ions or nuclei,

564
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: whatever these things can do this also we see it

565
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,439
Speaker 1: all over the place. It's actually an important part of

566
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Speaker 1: loss of physical processes that we know and love. Well.

567
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Speaker 1: I think it's interesting to think about the idea that,

568
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Speaker 1: you know, these walls in the room that I'm in

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Speaker 1: um are sort of just barriers to right, Like they're like,

570
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Speaker 1: what's preventing my hand from going through the wall. It's

571
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Speaker 1: not just my inner peace, but uh, it's it's like

572
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: the electromagnetic forces between my hand and the wall exactly.

573
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Speaker 1: And that, as you say, is a quantum mechanical barrier.

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Speaker 1: Like the very tip of your finger. Imagine that's an electron.

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Speaker 1: When it approaches the wall, it meets a barrier, a

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Speaker 1: barrier made by the electrons in the wall, and that's

577
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Speaker 1: what doing the repulsion. And so you're right, there's a

578
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: tiny chance so that first electron is just going to

579
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Speaker 1: go right through the barrier instead of bouncing off of it,

580
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: and I might lose that one electron from my finger,

581
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: you might, Or there's an even tinier chance that the

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Speaker 1: next set of particles will will quantum tunnel through, and

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Speaker 1: an even tinier chance that also the next ones will.

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Speaker 1: So there's some non zero chance that you'll put your

585
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Speaker 1: hand through the wall without breaking the wall. That's crazy.

586
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,000
Speaker 1: It's it's non zero chance that I can walk through,

587
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 1: or do I walk through the wall or appear on

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Speaker 1: the other side or both. I know this would be

589
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: a horge quantum tunneling through the wall. Yeah, there's totally

590
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 1: a non zero chance. Now you could stand there all day,

591
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 1: your whole life, walking into walls and not successfully go

592
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Speaker 1: through it. And I'm pretty sure that would be your

593
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 1: experience because the probabilities we're talking about are ridiculously tiny, Like,

594
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 1: for these barriers are pretty tall, and there's lots of

595
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,560
Speaker 1: particles and have to happen for all of them, and

596
00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: so it's basically impossible, but not technically exactly zero. So

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00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: there is a possibility, Daniel, that you're sitting right there

598
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,680
Speaker 1: where you are will suddenly find yourself on the other

599
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,160
Speaker 1: side of the wall that's in front of you, right exactly.

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Speaker 1: There is a possibility I could quantum tunnel into the

601
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Speaker 1: bathroom or whatever. Let's say it happens right now. Proof

602
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 1: would you say you teleported to a battle. I mean,

603
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: what's what's the difference between that and actually teleporting. Well,

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00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,920
Speaker 1: we did a whole episode about teleportition, remember, and we

605
00:30:26,040 --> 00:30:30,320
Speaker 1: decided that teleportition is impossible while this is possible. And

606
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: you know, it's really tempting to connect this this um

607
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,640
Speaker 1: idea of tunneling with the concept that part of quantum

608
00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: particles can sort of skip their way through life, right,

609
00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: they don't need to exist at every moment, sort of

610
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: they're here and then they're there and the other thing.

611
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: And so if you want to call this telepartition, then

612
00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: every particle is teleporting all the time, right, So that's

613
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: my problem with it. It's like this is a natural

614
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: thing that particles are always doing, even without barriers, Like

615
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: even a particle in an infinite box is doing this

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Speaker 1: sort of skipping thing because it doesn't exist between the

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Speaker 1: moments you're observing it. So if this is teleprotation, then

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00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:06,400
Speaker 1: that's teleprotation also, and everything is constantly teleporting. You're saying

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Speaker 1: that you don't want to call it teleprotation, not because

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Speaker 1: it's not teleprotation, which I would argue maybe it is experientially,

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Speaker 1: but it's just that if you call it teleprot teleportation,

622
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 1: it would sort of the dilute or or break the

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Speaker 1: definition of teleprotation. Yeah, if this is teleprotation, then we're

624
00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: all teleporting all the time. So if everyone is nice,

625
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:32,840
Speaker 1: then nobody's nice. It's kind of right, like it's the

626
00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: teleporters quantum dilemma exactly, all right, So that that that

627
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 1: that makes a bit more sense. And quantum tunneling is

628
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,840
Speaker 1: really important, like it happens in the sun. If you

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Speaker 1: want nuclear fusion to happen, the kind of thing that

630
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Speaker 1: powers the sun, that generates all that light that you

631
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Speaker 1: know makes you look so nice and tan and grows

632
00:31:50,200 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 1: all that food that you eat, then you need these

633
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: particles to be able to quantum tunnel through some of

634
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Speaker 1: the potential barriers that they face. You know, particles infusion

635
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: don't like to touch each other, right because nuclei are

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Speaker 1: get them to fuse, you have to push them together,

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Speaker 1: and they're repelling each other, and that's a barrier. So

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Speaker 1: you've got to get them sometimes through that barrier in

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Speaker 1: order to do the fusion. And you're saying sometimes they

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Speaker 1: tunnel to that, but mostly do they mostly get pushed

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Speaker 1: together or do they actually tunneled together. I think it's

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Speaker 1: some of both. I mean, the center of the sun

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Speaker 1: is so hot and so dense that these particles can

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Speaker 1: just sort of overcome the cool embarrier like they have

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Speaker 1: enough energy. But definitely, um tunneling is an important part

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Speaker 1: of it, Like fusion wouldn't be the fusion we know

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Speaker 1: and love without quantum tunneling. If everything is fusion, then

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Speaker 1: nothing is fusion. That's what you're saying. That's right, that's

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Speaker 1: the theme today, right, label everything um. And there are

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Speaker 1: other effects, like you know, back to electrons. Electrons don't

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Speaker 1: like to stay in little traps, but if you're building

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Speaker 1: chips for computers, then you'd like your electrons to be

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Speaker 1: in certain places you want to know, like hey, this

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Speaker 1: transistor is all on or this transistor is off or whatever.

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Speaker 1: And and it gets harder and harder to make transistors

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Speaker 1: be reliable as they get smaller and smaller, because you

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Speaker 1: get dominated by these quantum effects, and these little traps

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Speaker 1: get smaller and smaller, and electrons like to jump out

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Speaker 1: of them, and you don't want your ones in your

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Speaker 1: computer to suddenly switch into zeros. And so this actually

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Speaker 1: is a big effect in miniaturizing transistors, which is a

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Speaker 1: big effect in speeding up your iPhone. At some point,

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Speaker 1: if you make electronics small enough, the quantum effects are

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Speaker 1: gonna totally miss everything up. Yeah, exactly. Quantum mechanics messes

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Speaker 1: it up again, bummer, Why can't they just be elect

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Speaker 1: strikes out. Quantum mechanics strikes out again. Why can't we

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Speaker 1: just use little bowling balls and tiny little swimming pools

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Speaker 1: instead of electrons? Sorry, and bowling striking is good, so

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Speaker 1: it wins. Yeah, it strikes out, exactly. You brought a

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Speaker 1: full circle. They're very nice, all right. So that's that's

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Speaker 1: pretty much quantum tunneling. It's this idea that particles are

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Speaker 1: all quantum, and as such, they have these weird fuzzy

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Speaker 1: uh location right, They're not in any particular place, and

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Speaker 1: so it's impossible to trap a particle because it's fuzzy

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Speaker 1: and it might slip out. That's right. Quantum barriers are

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Speaker 1: just different from the ones you're familiar with, the work

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Speaker 1: under different rules, and those rules have little random exceptions

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Speaker 1: to them, so sometimes they can just be ignored and

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Speaker 1: it's weird and it's confusing, and your intuition breaks down.

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Speaker 1: But it's also wonderful because it shows you how the

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Speaker 1: world works at a smaller level. Right, it reveals to

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Speaker 1: you where your intuition is wrong, and that that means

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Speaker 1: that it's showing you the truth of the universe. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and the and the truth is bowling. Exactly. The truth

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Speaker 1: is quantum bowling. This episode brought to you by the

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Speaker 1: American Bowling Association. Yeah, exactly. But so that's what happens

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Speaker 1: at the microscopic level, but on the larger level, we

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Speaker 1: we can't do that because you know, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of lactrons in my hand, and the chance that all

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Speaker 1: of them are going to quantum tunnel at this time

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Speaker 1: it's just almost zero. Yeah, exactly. Like if there's a

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Speaker 1: chance for you to roll a one million sided die

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Speaker 1: and get zero, you know that's probably can happen. But

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Speaker 1: if you have to do that for a million die

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Speaker 1: all at once um and get the same answer, then

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Speaker 1: it's basically very improbable, almost impossible. So you the macroscopic

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Speaker 1: stuff sort of gets averaged out, but still possible. It's

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Speaker 1: still possible. Absolutely, you could quantum tunnel through the walls

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Speaker 1: and not counted as teleportation. All right, It's just what

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Speaker 1: quantum stuff does Yeah, yeah, drives them physicists crazy. No,

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Speaker 1: it excites us. Is it's wonderful. We're always looking for

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Speaker 1: weird quantum effects that show us how the universe works.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it's a it's a it's what we

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Speaker 1: what we live for, these little moments. All right, Well,

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