Physics' Two Best Theories Contradict Each Other... And One Of Them Has To Break

Hey guys! We’re now live on Spotify🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1Nm0Qc8... Two theories run your entire world, and they cannot both be true. One bends starlight and corrects your phone's GPS by 38 millionths of a second a day, unbeaten in 110 years. The other, agreeing with experiment to one part in a trillion, built the device playing this video. Put a single grain of matter in two places at once on an ordinary tabletop, and the two of them stop agreeing on what reality is. Over these 2 hours and 24 minutes, we build both theories up from their real foundations — Galileo's falling fireworks and Einstein's happiest thought on one side, Schrödinger's equation and a century of ever-larger superposition experiments on the other — before walking, step by step, through Nobel laureate Roger Penrose's argument that gravity itself is quietly choosing which quantum possibilities become fact. Along the way: the 1919 eclipse that made Einstein famous, a 1999 Vienna experiment that made a soccer-ball-sized molecule interfere with itself, and a germanium detector buried under an Italian mountain listening for the sound of a superposition dying. Get cozy and let this slow walk through two perfect theories quietly falling out of agreement keep you company tonight. Subscribe to Nap Theory if you like the universe taken slowly. CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 2:02 General Relativity's Unbroken Century 13:34 Galileo's Sparks and Einstein's Happiest Thought 24:25 The Second Tower: Quantum Mechanics 34:36 The Trapdoor: Measurement Problem 49:32 Climbing the Superposition Staircase 1:01:45 Quantum Gravity's 90-Year Failure 1:12:37 Meeting Roger Penrose 1:24:50 The Superposed Bead 1:36:22 Penrose's Cheat: A Gravitational Lifetime 1:45:11 Testing the Formula Against the Staircase 1:48:35 Collapse, Entanglement, and the Speed of Light 2:02:09 Hunting for Gravity's Signature 2:13:41 Three Roads and Penrose's Verdict SOURCES First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole — https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.11238 First Image of a Black Hole — https://science.nasa.gov/resource/fir... Astronomers Capture First Image of a Black Hole — https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1907/ GW150914 Press Release — https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/pre... Observation of Gravitationally Induced Quantum Interference — https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/Phys... Wave-particle duality of C60 molecules — https://www.nature.com/articles/44348 Probing quantum mechanics with nanoparticle matter-wave interferometry — https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158... Quantum ground state and single-phonon control of a mechanical resonator — https://www.nature.com/articles/natur... Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment — https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.13084 The standard model's greatest triumph — https://physicstoday.aip.org/quick-st... Physics Experiments Spell Doom for Quantum 'Collapse' Theory — https://www.quantamagazine.org/physic... Underground test of gravity-related wave function collapse — https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156... Gravity and the Collapse of the Wave Function: a Probe into Diósi-Penrose model — https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.6460 Quantum superpositions of a mirror for experimental tests for nonunitary Newtonian gravity — https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract... — Disclaimer: Nap Theory is an education and relaxation channel. Factual material is based on peer-reviewed research and official scientific bodies; any speculation, fringe theory, or personal analysis is identified as such when it appears. This is not a news channel. Viewer discretion advised. #WaveFunctionCollapse #RogerPenrose