What does Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle actually state? Is it the result of disturbances created during the process of measurement or is it a statement derived from the most fundamental principles in quantum mechanics (and hence applies regardless of measurement)?

Since there is so much misinformation surrounding this topic, I have decided to make a whole new series of videos covering Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. This is a series for everybody, from beginner's to more advanced levels – no matter how little or how much you already know, I am hoping you’ll find something that catches your interest!

This is the first video in this series; we’ll start with a little home experiment, we’ll then cover some theory and finally, we’ll finish with a few very interesting examples.

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Summary:

1. The Uncertainty Principle in Action (Easy Home Experiment):

- Single-Slit experiment with laser, blades, playdough and peg

- Horizontal spread of laser spot as we narrow the slit's width

- Interference fringes

2. Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle (theory):

- Statement of the Uncertainty Principle: "It is impossible to find a state in which the particle has definite values for both position and momentum"

- Definition of momentum (for particles with mass)

- Clarification: momentum and position need to be along same axis

- Fundamental limit to the precision with which position and momentum can be known (because well-defined values of both variables cannot exist simultaneously)

- Contrary to popular belief (and what some teachers or books state), the Uncertainty Principle is NOT the same as the Observer Effect (it is NOT the result of disturbances created through the process of measurement)

- H.U.P. can be derived theoretically from fundamental principles in quantum mechanics (inherent indeterminacy in wave-like systems). Complementarity (Niels Bohr), conjugate pairs of observables

3. Some Examples of Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle:

- Single Slit Diffraction explained using Uncertainty Principle

- Size and stability of hydrogen atom explained using Uncertainty Principle

- Does Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle apply to macroscopic objects? Bose-Einstein Condensates: velocity distribution of particles and the Uncertainty Principle. Anisotropic spread


Thank you so much for watching, I hope you’ve enjoyed watching this video as much as I’ve enjoyed making it. There’s two or perhaps three more videos coming in this series covering yet more fascinating ideas around Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. I am currently working on the scripts and the next video should be ready very soon!

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What is Information? (1) Reality as Information - Is there Intrinsic Meaning? Sentient Life & Bits

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Is reality indistinguishable from information? Is consciousness a self-aware, self-modifying information field? Does information have intrinsic meaning? How does meaningfulness arise? How do sentient and non-sentient entities differ in the way they perceive and process information?...

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Introduction:

- Common association of information with communication and technology

- Could information be something more subtle and fundamental?

- Can we define time, space, consciousness, matter, energy... in terms of information?

- Science using informational approach: quantum physics, biology, neuroscience...

- Digital physics and philosophy. Information as as tool to explain reality. Metaphysics / Philosophy

- Summary of what will be discussed in Part 1 (this video) and rest of the video series

- Covering all topics, from mainstream science to fringe science

- Other recommended channels (Minute Physics, Veritasium & Imagining the 10th Dimension)

Finding a Good Definition of Information:

- Facts, message, communication & reception of data

- Etymology: to give form to the mind. Giving form and meaning as related to an agent. Interpretation of information

- Difference between code symbols and information

- Gregory Bateson's definition: information is a difference which makes a difference

- Modification of Bateson's definition to: information is a perceived difference which can make a difference

- At the most basic level, information is the perceived difference between two distinct states plus the potential meaning assigned to this perceived difference

- Information is not a thing, a property or state "out there"

- Information is a process, a connection, a relationship; a potential for knowledge acquisition

- Information as related to perception, experience, qualia...

- Information as a relational concept

- Is information made of matter or energy? Norbert Wiener

- Example 1: cell perceiving the distinction between two states (acidity & non-acidity)

- Example 2: perception of black dots against a white background

- Example 3: information contained in the word "Love"

- Is information subjective? Potential meaningfulness. Interpretation of data

- Reasons for changes in definition: rejection of objective realism (Anton Zeilinger, Leggett-Garg & Bell inequalities), observer-observed dependency, subjectivity in interpretation and difference between information and matter / energy

- Is information physical or non-physical? Rolf Landauer's statement (lengthy discussion in future video)

Associating the Bit with Bateson's definition:

- How is information quantified?

- Definition of the binary digit or bit

- Association of the bit with Gregory Bateson's definition

On the use of the word "Perception", Sentient Life, Meaning & Acquisition of Knowledge:

- Perceive = detect (non sentient entities)

- Conscious perception (sentient entities)

- Example of a golf ball in a gravitational field

- Non-sentient entities can perceive a difference but can't assign meaning

- Important fact about information: sentient entities maximise its potential

- The ability to store, retrieve, process information and assign meaning as key to evolution of life (self-modification, provision of feedback, memory, growth, learning...)

- Life: potential acquisition of knowledge and learning can be maximised

- How do complexity and meaningfulness arise?

- Key ingredients: consciousness and free will

- Are consciousness and free will emergent or fundamental?

- Steven Kaufman; Unified Reality Theory. Defining reality from an idealistic point of view.

- Reality as the experience of binary states in relation to each other. Reality forming relationships with itself

- "Whatever we experience something to be, it can be that only in relation to and in dependence on some other aspect of existence which is not that."

- Summing up Part 1

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In this informal interview in Atlanta June 8, 2012, Tom Campbell, author of My Big TOE, expands on the significance of the scientific experiment called the Double Slit in terms everyone can understand.

" If you understand the Double Slit experiment, you understand how our reality works".
He continues " Everything we do is not different from the Double Slit experiment".

This explanation is valuable to scientists as well as the general public. Tom takes a difficult subject and applies helpful analogies to clarify the implications of this scientific experiment.


Tom's website is http://www.mybigTOE.com

Interview by Donna Aveni
MBT Events http:www.mbtevents.com

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Playlist: Do We Live in a Simulated Reality?
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The Quantum World of Digital Physics: Can a virtual reality be real?

"Quantum physics requires us to abandon the distinction between information and reality." Anton Zeilinger

Part 1. Information and Simulated Reality

Digital physicists suggest that all realities are virtual which means this is as "real " as it gets.

Digital physics sees everything as information, it provides a different way of describing what is happening at the quantum level. Seeing as the universe appears to be composed of elementary particles whose behavior can be completely described by the quantum switches they undergo that implies that the universe as a whole can be described by bits. Every state is information and every change of state is a change in information. From this it can be said that the history of the universe is in effect a huge and ongoing quantum computation.

Digital Physics tells us that all information is processed at the boundary of the system. For those who are familiar with the cellular biologist Bruce Lipton and his work in epigenetics you may see a correlation here. Lipton tells us that the cell membrane is the "brain" of a cell. As Above, So Below? Could what we know as our universe really just be the endoplasm of a holographic amoeba?

Part 2. The Simulation: Joe Rogan ~ Terence Mckenna ~ Neil D. Tyson ~ Robert Anton Wilson

"The idea is that in the future, humans will be able to simulate entire universes quite easily, and given the vastness of time ahead, the number of these simulations is likely to be huge. So if you ask the question 'do we live in the one true reality or in one of the many simulations?', the answer, statistically speaking, is that we're more likely to be living in a simulation." Physicist Silas Beane

For all perspectives, conversations & discoveries from within the simulation check out: http://www.simulet.com/

Edited by: Kevin Russell
Music by: Josh Vietti (http://joshvietti.com/)
Speakers: Neil D. Tyson, Terence Mckenna, Robert Anton Wilson and Joe Rogan!
Be sure to check out http://joerogan.net/ and subscribe to his podcast!

I believe that reality is a subjective experience, defined by the individual user through perceptual modalities honed within the nervous system.
What a mouthful! Now let's break it down:
Your body is a flesh machine, and you are at the controls. However you want to experience reality is entirely, and ultimately, up to you.

@ Simulet.com, The mission is simple: to empower one's subjective experience of reality. We do this by using the latest discoveries to fuel our conversations and deepen our perspectives.

The Internet, and innovations of the 21st century, have given humanity the opportunity to implement tools found in every degree of life; psychology, neurology, biology, philosophy, mythology, technology, etc. When nueroplasticity and the ability to change our perspective is coupled, latent patterns of reactionary behavior atrophy and die off, allowing neurological evolution to ensue.

Learning to control the neocortex gives one the ability to have power over their perception of reality, versus being subject to our biologically reactive chemical responses. Essentially, to reason over reflex.

God Is the Machine
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10...

What is Information?
http://crackingthenutshell.com/what-i...

Digital Physics ~ Musings on the Nature of Reality
http://blog.theuniversesolved.com/tag...

The Clockwork Universe - Who are You in a Deterministic, Materialistic & Reductionistic World? (HD)
http://crackingthenutshell.com/the-cl...

John Wheeler and Digital Physics
http://imaginingthetenthdimension.blo...

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Michio Kaku's theory on quantifying consciousness suggests consciousness is the number of feedback loops required to create a model of your position in space with relation to other organisms and time.

Buy the best selling book (WINNER OF THE 2014 BRAIN PRIZE )
Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts - http://amzn.to/20WYo7U

He believes a thermostat has 1 unit of consciousness - it senses the temperature around it. A flower has around 10 units of consciousness - understands temperature, weather, humidity, gravity, etc.
Level 1 Consciousness: Example - reptiles. Understand position in space.
Level 2 Consciousness: Example - mammal. Understand relation to other organisms - emotions, social hierarchy.
Level 3 Consciousness: Example - humans. Understand relation to time, ability to imagine the future.

Some other useful resources about Consciousness -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscio...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GS2r...
http://bigthink.com/videos/consciousn...
http://www.iep.utm.edu/consciou/
http://www.economist.com/news/science...
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/con...

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Is it is possible we are living in a virtual reality? If so what does this mean for our world and what sustains out word. The strange results of Quantum Mechanics is beginning to tell us something interesting about our world and the conclusions from these results will change the way we view reality.


Sources:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/0801.0337.pdf
http://science.discovery.com/tv-shows...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsbZT9...
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh8uZU...
Concepts of Space: The History of Theories of Space in Physics - Max Jammer
http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.2529
The Quantum Enigma - Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner
Physics and Philosophy - Werner Heisenberg
ARE YOU LIVING IN A COMPUTER SIMULATION? - Nick Bostrom
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nttB3W...

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Visit http://www.webofstories.com/gl/john.w... for more of theoretical physicist John Wheeler's life stories.

American theoretical physicist, John Wheeler, talks about his crazy ideas for understanding this crazy world.

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If we start with different assumptions, the 2007 article in Science by Jacques, Wu, Grosshans et al, leads to drastically different conclusions. See also the "TEW" series of videos on YouTube that systematically teaches TEW as a comprehensive new science.

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Vlatko Vedral: Everything is information

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Vlatko Vedral on Decoding Reality -- The Universe as Quantum Information. What is the nature of reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? These are the deepest questions that human beings have asked, that thinkers East and West have pondered over millennia. For a physicist, all the world is information. The Universe and its workings are the ebb and flow of information. We are all transient patterns of information, passing on the blueprints for our basic forms to future generations using a digital code called DNA.

Decoding Reality asks some of the deepest questions about the Universe and considers the implications of interpreting it in terms of information. It explains the nature of information, the idea of entropy, and the roots of this thinking in thermodynamics. It describes the bizarre effects of quantum behaviour such as 'entanglement', which Einstein called 'spooky action at a distance' and explores cutting edge work on harnessing quantum effects in hyperfast quantum computers, and how recent evidence suggests that the weirdness of the quantum world, once thought limited to the tiniest scales, may reach up into our reality.

The book concludes by considering the answer to the ultimate question: where did all of the information in the Universe come from? The answers considered are exhilarating and challenge our concept of the nature of matter, of time, of free will, and of reality itself.

http://quantumoxford.com/

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Quantum Theory Made Easy [2]

Quantum Theory 2017

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PART 1: Today we'll be exploring the evolution of the atom, starting from J.J. Thomson's Plum Pudding model

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"THE UNIVERSE INSIDE THE BRAIN"

- Why the universe is not real in our minds?

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Maybe these different fields of science that are on the brink of discovery are showing us something not so different from each other.

The Universe is connected. This discovery can bridge the separation between light and sound, which exists as one in the higher dimensions. Take these lessons and apply them to your every day life. You can guide your way through the multiverse, and everything in your life will fall into place.

The Universe is Fractal; it is infinite. Everything within it, including yourself, is also infinite. Quantum Physics is the study of this grand concept itself. I highly recommend any other quantum physicist to research the field theory, with Fractal Geometry in mind.

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"The ALL is MIND; the Universe is Mental." --The Kybalion.

The ALL is Everything there is...

Belief --Determines Reality.

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Welcome to Cracking the Nutshell! In this video, I discuss the nature of time. Summary:

- Newtonian time (absolute time)
- Relativistic Time (Einstein) / The observer
- Time dilation (Special Relativity Theory)
- Muons / cosmic rays (half-life)
- Philosophical Theories of Time: A and B theories (John McTaggart)
- Presentism / Block Time
- "Now" moment and consciousness (awareness of change)
- Determinism and classical physics
- Free will an illusion?
- Is time linear?
- Time as perception of duration, change and ordering of events
- Time an illusion of consciousness?
- Time enabling 3D physical perception of space
- Universe whith no change and no perception
- Individual time, intricately linked to awareness
- Is time more fundamental than space?
- Universe where only patterns of states exist and perception of change, hence time (but no 3D space)
- Fundamental time (quantum of time): Planck time
- Quantum gravity / Quantum universe simulations
- Time fundamental (not emergent)
- Renate Loll
- Time and consciousness
- Is there an objective reality out there?
- Quantum physics / religion / philosophy / spirituality
- Physics and New Age ideas
- Consciousness as taboo (within Physics)
- Brilliant minds in Quantum Physics: Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger, Heisenberg, Wigner, Bohm, Wheeler, Feynman....
- Time from the Quantum Physics perspective
- Probability distributions
- Observation / Measurement / Retrieval of Information / Collapse of the wavefunction
- Collapse of Determinism
- Fundamental role of observer and "now" moment of time
- Determinism and randomness
- Arrow of time / Entropy / Causality / Deterministic equations of physics
- Second Law of Thermodynamics / Disorder / Time direction
- Is causality fundamental in our universe?
- Free will and determinism
- Consciousness and free will and illusion?
- Schrödinger's equation and determinism
- Non-local reality in the background (computing outside our space-time)
- Flow of information between realities (or dimensions)
- From determinism to randomness? Or is there another option?
- Interaction between quantum world and consciousness / free will
- Double-slit experiments
- Information or knowledge fundamental?
- Experiments that provide evidence of mind-matter interaction (consciousness or free will can influence the outcome of a probabilistic distribution)
- Quantum random number generators
- Helmut Schmidt
- Free will debates
- Purely linear physical causality?
- Non-local realms, nested time / nested realities
- Tom Campbell
- Dogmatic believes within science
- Can the present change the past? Retro-causality (backwards causality)
- Delayed choice quantum eraser
- Nature of time and arrow of time, when causality does not need to be linear nor confined to just our-space time
- Reality linked to observation / Collapse of objective reality
- Linear timeline in our space-time versus branching time-line in probability space
- Retrieval of information (from probability space to our space-time) as key to understanding causality
- Past and future databases / branching timeline
- Reality as probabilistic + free will
- Scientific method and science
- Physics / Metaphysics / Philosophy


References and other suggested videos / info:

Philosophy theories of time:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw6hS_...

Renata Loll videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv2gBj...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACS1_5...

Tom Campbell video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RMOGF...

Cracking the Nutshell website:

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