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Are Many Worlds & Pilot Wave THE SAME Theory?

2023-09-28 Education
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PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to: http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime It’s hard to interpret the strange results of quantum mechanics, though many have tried. Interpretations range from the outlandish—like the multiple universes of Many Worlds, to the almost mundane, like the very mechanical Pilot Wave Theory. But perhaps we’re converging on an answer, because some are arguing that these two interpretations are really the same thing. Check out the Space Time Merch Store https://www.pbsspacetime.com/shop Sign up for the mailing list to get episode notifications and hear special announcements! https://mailchi.mp/1a6eb8f2717d/spacetime Search the Entire Space Time Library Here: https://search.pbsspacetime.com/ Hosted by Matt O'Dowd Written by Taha Dawoodbhoy & Matt O'Dowd Post Production by Leonardo Scholzer, Yago Ballarini & Stephanie Faria Directed by Andrew Kornhaber Associate Producer: Bahar Gholipour Executive Producers: Eric Brown & Andrew Kornhaber Executive in Charge for PBS: Maribel Lopez Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: John Campbell Spacetime is produced by Kornhaber Brown for PBS Digital Studios. This program is produced by Kornhaber Brown, which is solely responsible for its content. © 2023 PBS. All rights reserved. End Credits Music by J.R.S. Schattenberg: https://www.youtube.com/user/MultiDroideka Space Time Was Made Possible In Part By: Big Bang Sponsors Bryce Fort Peter Barrett David Neumann Sean Maddox Alexander Tamas Morgan Hough Juan Benet Vinnie Falco Fabrice Eap Mark Rosenthal Quasar Sponsors Glenn Sugden Alex Kern Ethan Cohen Stephen Wilcox Mark Heising Hypernova Sponsors Stephen Spidle Chris Webb Ivari Tölp Zachry Wilson Kenneth See Gregory Forfa drollere Bradley Voorhees Scott Gorlick Paul Stehr-Green Ben Delo Scott Gray Антон Кочков Robert Ilardi John R. Slavik Donal Botkin Edmund Fokschaner chuck zegar Jordan Young Daniel Muzquiz Gamma Ray Burst Sponsors Lori Ferris James Sadler Dennis Van Hoof Koen Wilde Nicolas Katsantonis Piotr Sarnicki Massimiliano Pala Thomas Nielson Joe Pavlovic Ryan McGaughy Justin Lloyd Chuck Lukaszewski Cole B Combs Andrea Galvagni Jerry Thomas Nikhil Sharma Ryan Moser John Anderson David Giltinan Scott Hannum Bradley Ulis Craig Falls Kane Holbrook Ross Story teng guo Mason Dillon Matt Langford Harsh Khandhadia Thomas Tarler Susan Albee Frank Walker Matt Quinn Michael Lev Terje Vold James Trimmier Jeremy Soller Paul Wood Joe Moreira Kent Durham Ramon Nogueira Ellis Hall John H. Austin, Jr. Diana S Poljar Faraz Khan Almog Cohen Daniel Jennings Russ Creech Jeremy Reed David Johnston Michael Barton Isaac Suttell Oliver Flanagan Bleys Goodson Mark Delagasse Mark Daniel Cohen Shane Calimlim Eric Kiebler Craig Stonaha Frederic Simon John Robinson Jim Hudson Alex Gan David Barnholdt David Neal John Funai Bradley Jenkins Vlad Shipulin Cody Brumfield Thomas Dougherty King Zeckendorff Dan Warren Joseph Salomone Patrick Sutton Dean Faulk

Top Comments (10)

@n.butyllithium5463 2023-09-28

i'm happy to be in the universe where i can watch this video.

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@elshadshirinov1633 2023-09-28

I really like to think of the "many-worlds" interpretation as the "one huge world" interpretation where you really buy into the concept of superposition. Instead of thinking of superposition on small scales, it acknowledges that everything is one giant messy superposition.

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@ericeaton2386 2023-09-28

The writing of this episode is absolutely *phenomenal*. The way the explanations build up on each other and slide so smoothly into the next segment is a true feat. E.g. "Fortunately I don't have to describe how our double-slit experiment looks in Many Worlds because... I just described it." Seriously, this is a skill. Most teachers don't come anywhere near this ability of connecting ideas together to create a cohesive picture. Bravo. P.S. I'm consistently impressed by the team's ability to reference previous videos as introductory to these topics. The catalog of videos spans many years at this point, and it's amazing how y'all are able to keep track of which ones apply to the current topic and direct people to them.

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@Jobobn1998 2023-09-29

Dude, the way the writers teed up the rhetorical dovetail from Pilot Wave to Many Worlds was a thing of beauty!

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@_Mute_ 2023-09-29

Im convinced this episode was written just to see how many times Matt could say "corpuscle"

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@astrogames8645 2023-09-28

Always a good day when PBS Space Time uploads a video!

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@victornobody7150 2023-09-29

Those are some very tricky visualizations, the graphics team deserves all my respect. As much as everyone else involved. I'd love to see a making of video. Thanks for the amazing episode!

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@TJF588 2023-09-30

What gets me about sci-fi that use "multiple worlds" is treating them as separate spaces, but the dogged impression I have is a single space which contains all the "material" for these variations to incarnate simultaneously yet mutually exclusively.

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@thehappypittie 2023-09-28

I think I like the explanations for Matt not being available for questions at the end of an episode almost as much as I like Matt answering the questions at the end of the episode

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@Rogstin 2023-09-28

I'm just glad the initial configuration of waves and corpuscles gave us this channel and it's host.

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