Chinese Experiment Proves Einstein Wrong, Bohr Correct
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Top Comments (10)
Einstein been really quiet since this paper came out
Hats down that Einstein was able to create this test in his head 100 years ago to prove what could work is kind of crazy even if he wasn't right. But he knew how to find out.. That means if he had nowadays technology he would know by then too what works. So he was part of the process which thanks to him was able to confirm what is right...
Wait, Albert Einstein was a real person?? I thought he was just a THEORETICAL physicist.
Niels could've explained his theory, but he didn't want to Bohr Einstein to death.
Part of me wishes we could find out how they would react to the fact we actually managed to observe so many things they were convinced we never would. Einstein would certainly get a kick of how many of his rings we see in space!
Idk if you've done one yet but a vid on optical tweezers would be cool. Help the audience lesrn about how the component tools of these experiments work
All it shows us is pretty much the accepted understanding of how quantum mechanic works. The beef Einstein and Bohr had was more about if a wavefunction entanglement propagates instantly or if there is hidden state that determines outcome beforehand. This Gedankenexperiment is just a probing if quantum mechanic really holds and Bohrs answer made a lot of sense.
Hello Anton, I really appreciated this video and the clarity with which you explained a genuinely beautiful and difficult experiment. The tunable recoiling-slit realization using a single trapped atom is a legitimate milestone, and your walkthrough made it accessible without oversimplifying the physics. That said, I feel somewhat obligated—out of respect for both the experiment and its historical context—to raise a concern about the framing implied by the title “Chinese Experiment Proves Einstein Wrong, Bohr Correct.” The experiment very convincingly confirms Bohr’s rebuttal to Einstein’s specific recoiling-slit objection: namely, that extracting which-path information via recoil necessarily introduces quantum uncertainty and entanglement that degrades interference visibility. On that narrow point, Bohr’s reasoning is experimentally validated. However, framing this as “Einstein wrong, Bohr correct” risks overstating what was actually tested. The result does not show that Einstein was wrong about realism in general, hidden variables, or the incompleteness question more broadly—it addresses one specific Gedankenexperiment and shows that Bohr’s uncertainty-based counterargument holds in a fully quantum regime. In modern language, what the experiment really demonstrates is that which-path information is paid for with coherence via entanglement, not that nature enforces complementarity as a philosophical axiom. The “observer” here is a single atom; no collapse, consciousness, or classical apparatus is required. That nuance is precisely what makes the experiment so strong. I’m pointing this out not as criticism of the science (which is excellent), but because your channel has a reputation for careful framing—and this result deserves to be remembered as a triumph of experimental ingenuity and quantum coherence physics, rather than as a verdict on a century-old philosophical debate. Thanks again for the work you do, and for highlighting research like this that genuinely moves the field forward. Best regards, George Miles NereoLabs
Universe's trying to keep its RNG algorithm secret...
When physics thought experiments meet real physical experiments that use single atoms and single photons I get goosebumps.
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Top Comments (10)
Einstein been really quiet since this paper came out
Hats down that Einstein was able to create this test in his head 100 years ago to prove what could work is kind of crazy even if he wasn't right. But he knew how to find out.. That means if he had nowadays technology he would know by then too what works. So he was part of the process which thanks to him was able to confirm what is right...
Wait, Albert Einstein was a real person?? I thought he was just a THEORETICAL physicist.
Niels could've explained his theory, but he didn't want to Bohr Einstein to death.
Part of me wishes we could find out how they would react to the fact we actually managed to observe so many things they were convinced we never would. Einstein would certainly get a kick of how many of his rings we see in space!
Idk if you've done one yet but a vid on optical tweezers would be cool. Help the audience lesrn about how the component tools of these experiments work
All it shows us is pretty much the accepted understanding of how quantum mechanic works. The beef Einstein and Bohr had was more about if a wavefunction entanglement propagates instantly or if there is hidden state that determines outcome beforehand. This Gedankenexperiment is just a probing if quantum mechanic really holds and Bohrs answer made a lot of sense.
Hello Anton, I really appreciated this video and the clarity with which you explained a genuinely beautiful and difficult experiment. The tunable recoiling-slit realization using a single trapped atom is a legitimate milestone, and your walkthrough made it accessible without oversimplifying the physics. That said, I feel somewhat obligated—out of respect for both the experiment and its historical context—to raise a concern about the framing implied by the title “Chinese Experiment Proves Einstein Wrong, Bohr Correct.” The experiment very convincingly confirms Bohr’s rebuttal to Einstein’s specific recoiling-slit objection: namely, that extracting which-path information via recoil necessarily introduces quantum uncertainty and entanglement that degrades interference visibility. On that narrow point, Bohr’s reasoning is experimentally validated. However, framing this as “Einstein wrong, Bohr correct” risks overstating what was actually tested. The result does not show that Einstein was wrong about realism in general, hidden variables, or the incompleteness question more broadly—it addresses one specific Gedankenexperiment and shows that Bohr’s uncertainty-based counterargument holds in a fully quantum regime. In modern language, what the experiment really demonstrates is that which-path information is paid for with coherence via entanglement, not that nature enforces complementarity as a philosophical axiom. The “observer” here is a single atom; no collapse, consciousness, or classical apparatus is required. That nuance is precisely what makes the experiment so strong. I’m pointing this out not as criticism of the science (which is excellent), but because your channel has a reputation for careful framing—and this result deserves to be remembered as a triumph of experimental ingenuity and quantum coherence physics, rather than as a verdict on a century-old philosophical debate. Thanks again for the work you do, and for highlighting research like this that genuinely moves the field forward. Best regards, George Miles NereoLabs
Universe's trying to keep its RNG algorithm secret...
When physics thought experiments meet real physical experiments that use single atoms and single photons I get goosebumps.