Decoding the Universe: Quantum Preview
Preview: Season 51 Episode 14 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Dive into the universe at the tiniest – and weirdest – of scales.
When we look at the world at the tiniest scales, things get very weird. Take a wild ride through the quantum world, from the discoveries that reveal its strange rules to the amazing technologies it unlocks – with more powerful possibilities to come.
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Decoding the Universe: Quantum Preview
Preview: Season 51 Episode 14 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
When we look at the world at the tiniest scales, things get very weird. Take a wild ride through the quantum world, from the discoveries that reveal its strange rules to the amazing technologies it unlocks – with more powerful possibilities to come.
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- [Narrator] The tiniest mysteries.
- We need to know how things interact on a fundamental level to do big things.
- [Narrator] Are sometimes the weirdest.
- [Physicist] Entanglement is this stubborn... - Disturbing.
- Interesting and the most confusing.
- Part of what it means to describe how nature works.
- [Narrator] "Decoding the Universe: Quantum" on NOVA.
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