Einstein and the Quantum: Entanglement and Emergence

I have a grade 11 education I'm a Canadian oilfield worker. I find words science festival videos the greatest form of entertainment. My child hood and my upbringing led me down the path I'm on. Astronomy astrophysics studies on the stars and planets absolutely captivate my Imagination and my thoughts I watch these videos I'm 35 know but had I had the knowledge I had now I have now I would have if possible gone back in time re written my destiny and followed the path of science from high school. Anybody in any of these fields is an inspiration to me and I thank all of you you guys fuel my imagination and without you we would simply be stuck in a stone age rut. Congratulations to everyone who is at the top of their game I'm their field I sleep to these videos day in day out and you provide me with hope that someone will answer the questions why we are here where we are going and let's test the absolute limit of the human brain imagination and intelligence. Cheers to all academic students professors and professionals out there appreciate all of you. Love From an Alberta oilfield worker.

Brian Greene's ability to use analogies has made this higher physics knowable without a degree and I will forever be thankful for that.

Thank you Brian and everyone behind the scenes who make WSF, you are doing a great service!

The first 4 minutes is probably the best introduction to these two theory's I have heard from any Video.

Ohhhhh my God! I wait for these episodes like most people wait for the next Tom Cruise movie! Thank God for Brian Greene, for showing us the beauty of Physics!!

So great to see Leonard Susskind on air! This is how physics should be presented - no egos, no showboating, just great minds discussing complex concepts that us mere mortals can begin to understand.

Brian Greene is so underrated. Thank you so much for your contents and excellent deliveries.

Brian is just incredible- I loved physics growing up and wanted to be a quantum physicist but also loved medicine and became a doctor but my heart feels alive when I read any papers on quantum physics and attend such lectures - may be one day I will become physicist for now I learn through such amazing videos and papers thanks so so much

The team who came up with the intro, from the writing, to the computer art, to the conceptual design and general production should be extremely proud!

Seriously thank you. I particularly am sad that I never pursuid physics in my higher education as these are the subjects that bring colour to my life. I think it might not be praised enough that we still get to learn about these amazing ideas, even more so from the most incredible field experts, for free from anywhere in the world. I would like to take these few minutes to show my gratitude towards these actions and to professor Brian Greene! Thank you all for your contributions looking for answers (or more questions) and communicating us the findings, forever grateful.

Nice to see Prof. Susskind again.

A huge thank you to Prof Greene and the team for putting together this amazing discussion. It was easy to follow for a simple man like me and the graphics were really helpful and non-intrusive in helping understand these enormously complex ideas (especially the last bit about entanglement and space ripping itself apart...). I love Prof Susskind to bits and it's always a privilege to listen to him talking. His students are the luckiest people in history. I am so happy to be alive in this century and be able to listen to the greatest minds from my living room.

I loved when you take a glance at Mark listening to Leonard speak because he just has the biggest smile on his face. You can tell how much respect everyone has for each other and their individual interpretations. This was a phenomenal listen and I can’t wait for more.

Brian is an awesome science communicator.

I'm so glad Brian Greene exists to be able to explain this so eloquently.

The best modern day video explaining such complex things like information paradox, holograms and AMPS so elegantly and easily. All thanks to world science festival and Brian greene. Hope He doesn't stop with such videos. This was by far the best simple explanation on the entire realm of QM and space's connectivity.

The quality of these videos have risen exponentially...

Susskind explaining the ER=EPR was pure knowledge gold

My first encounter with quantum physics was when the gyms shut down over the Covid 19 period. I was exploring the star formation information out there and one thing led to another and I started at the beginning with the STANDARD MODEL. I was so fascinated with this new reality I regretted ever playing sports. Quantum Entanglement really blew my mind. All these people trying to solve this incredible problem of determining how the altered spin of one particle can effect the spin of the related molecule regardless of distance, was just amazing. All from trying to learn about the formation of stars and the elements. Thank you.

Einstein is well known for his rejection of quantum mechanics in the form it emerged from the work of Heisenberg, Born and Schrodinger in 1926. Much less appreciated are the many seminal contributions he made to quantum theory prior to his final scientific verdict: that the theory was at best incomplete. Einstein, much more than Planck, introduced the concept of quantization of energy in atomic mechanics. Einstein proposed the photon, the first force-carrying particle discovered for a fundamental interaction, and put forward the notion of wave-particle duality, based on sound statistical arguments 14 years before De Broglie’s work. He was the first to recognize the intrinsic randomness in atomic processes, and introduced the notion of transition probabilities, embodied in the A and B coefficients for atomic emission and absorption. He also preceded Born in suggesting the interpretation of wave fields as probability densities for particles, photons, in the case of the electromagnetic field. Finally, stimulated by Bose, he introduced the notion of indistinguishable particles in the quantum sense and derived the condensed phase of bosons, which is one of the fundamental states of matter at low temperatures. It was Einstein who discovered the the semiclassical limit of the Schrodinger Equation. His work on quantum statistics in turn directly stimulated Schrodinger towards his discovery of the fully quantum wave equation of quantum mechanics. It was only due to his rejection of the final theory that he is not generally recognized as the most central figure in this historic achievement of human civilization. The Boson should have been named after him given that it was him, and not Bose, that created the theory (in condensed matter physics) that led to it's discovery. Einstein is usually revered as the father of special and general relativity (which he is). But he is also the father of Solid State Physics, as well as the broader version known as Condensed Matter Physics (including liquids). His 1907 article on the specific heat of solids introduces, for the first time, the effect of lattice vibrations on the thermodynamic properties of crystals, in particular the specific heat. His 1905 article on the photoelectric effect and photoluminescence opened the fields of photoelectron spectroscopy and photoluminescence spectroscopy. Other important achievements include the aforementioned Bose-Einstein condensation and the Einstein relation between the diffusion coefficient an mobility. It was Einstein that was the first to quantize the radiation field and the first to correctly derive phonons. Between 1902 and 1920, 20 years, Albert Einstein was the only significant physicist of any repute in Europe who believed energy was quantized - it took Bohr many years to believe in quantized energy. He rederived the entire foundations of statistical mechanics and thermodynamics from first principles (he essentially did everything J.W. Gibbs did by the age of 23 - something he isn't even known for, a remarkable feat), he solved the centuries old Tea Leaf Paradox on a whim, he essentially launched Quantum Information Theory with the first paper on the subject now known as the "EPR Paradox" paper. Einstein, with contributions from Otto Stern, was the first to derive the correct value for zero-point energy (also known as zero-point motion), 10 years BEFORE Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (which, if you understand physics, is a truly remarkable feat). And I haven't even address his many, many other contributions to science (e.g. physical chemistry, Gyroscopes, telemetry etc). Sources: Douglas Stone (Head of Applied Physics at Yale University) wrote a book on the early history of quantum mechanics "Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian" - he argues that Einstein should have won 7 to 10 Nobel Prizes. John Stachel - Boston University Physicist and the first editor of the Einstein Papers Project. T.S. Kuhn's book "Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Einstein is the greatest scientist of all time, essentially launched modern physics as we know it. In some respects, he's underrated. Absolutely monstrous intellect.