The 2022 Physics Nobel Prize, awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger "for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science" https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2022/press-release/

Scientific American article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-universe-is-not-locally-real-and-the-physics-nobel-prize-winners-proved-it/

Bell's Theorem and EPR episode of Hyperfine https://thehyperfine.com/#bell

Encryption: Diffie-Hellman & RSA episode of Hyperfine https://thehyperfine.com/#encryption

CGP Grey video "The Trouble with Transporters" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYIThe podcast lives at https://www.thehyperfine.com/
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 - The universe is not locally real. What does that mean?

Zak and Derek discuss acoustic levitaiton with Dr. David Jackson, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dickinson College.

Their published paper at AAJP (requires subscription), "Acoustic levitation and the acoustic radiation force":
https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/10.0002764

You can contact Dr. Jackson to request a copy:
https://www.dickinson.edu/site/custom_scripts/dc_faculty_profile_index.php?fac=jacksond

Ming-Hua Chang's senior thesis, "Using Schlieren Optics to Visualize Ultrasonic Standing Waves In Acoustic Levitation":
https://scholar.dickinson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1391&context=student_honors

Dr. Daniel A Russell's Acoustics and Vibration Animations:
https://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/demos.html

Selected gifs of wave motion:
https://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/waves/wavemotion.html
https://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/Reflect-Particles/Reflect-Particles.html
https://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/phase-p-u-sine/phase-p-u-sine.html
https://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/Demos/SWR/SWR.html

Physics Girl video building an acoustic levitator on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABjRnSYw-4k

Acoustic levitation on Wikipedia:
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Acoustic Levitation w/ Special Guest Dr. David Jackson

Zak and Derek discuss the "controversial" value of Newton's gravitational constant G. They cover the history of its measurement and how the value (and confidence in that value) has changed over time.

Gravitational G wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_constant

Relative uncertainty of phsyical constants: https://codata.org/blog/2015/08/04/codata-recommended-values-of-the-fundamental-physical-constants-2014/

Different G experiments with uncertainty bars: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344933668/figure/fig2/AS:1019607263477760@1620104723443/The-eleven-values-of-G-adopted-in-CODATA-2014-after-2000-and-our-latest-two-values.pngThe podcast lives at https://www.thehyperfine.com/
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Gravitational G and How Science Works

Zak and Derek discuss the big question: why is the future different than the past? Why do we remember the past but not the future?

Much the discussion comes from Sean Carroll’s book, “From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time“The podcast lives at https://www.thehyperfine.com/
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Cosmology and the Arrow of Time

Zak and Derek chat with special guest, Grant Ciffone! Grant joins us as a non-physicist who asks “Is anything truly random in the universe?”
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Is Anything Truly Random? w/Special Guest Grant Ciffone

Zak and Derek discuss a mystery in a hospital, where an MRI machine seems to have taken out only iPhones; Android was unharmed. This leads to a conversation on how watches work, fundamentally.The podcast lives at https://www.thehyperfine.com/
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How to Keep Time

Zak and Derek discuss the statistical origins of entropy and how it connects from there into thermodynamics. They also encourage using flashcards 🙂The podcast lives at https://www.thehyperfine.com/
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Entropy & Statistical Mechanics

Zak and Derek discuss the basics of thermodynamics, including the so-called thermodynamic potentials.

Topics: energy, temperature, entropy, pressure, volume, enthalpy, Helmholtz free energy, Gibbs free enthalpy.

Modern Thermodynamics: http://www.av8n.com/physics/thermo/

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Thermodynamics

Zak and Derek discuss Benford’s Law, including the strange places it pops up, and some fundamental origins of the law.
Some of the references discussed:
The Mathematics of Benford’s Law – A Primer
Arno Berger and Theodore P. Hill
April 22, 2020
A Simple Explanation of Benford’s Law
R. M. FEWSTER
The American Statistician, February 2009, Vol. 63, No. 1
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Benford’s Law

Zak and Derek discuss Max Planck’s work in the foundations of what would turn into quantum mechanics, and Albert Einstein’s role in its promulgation. How did Max Planck fix the blackbody radiation problem with the ultraviolet catastrophe, or is that actually what happened?
References discussed:
Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity by Thomas Kuhn (Amazon book)
Einstein and the Quantum: The Quest of the Valiant Swabian by Douglas Stone (Amazon book)
Revisiting the Quantum Discontinuity (PDF)The podcast lives at https://www.thehyperfine.com/
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Planck, Einstein, and the Origins of Quantum Mechanics

Zak and Derek discuss the physics of hurricanes, including the energy involved, and rotating reference frames, including Coriolis effects. Why do they rotate in different directions in the northern and southern hemispheres?The podcast lives at https://www.thehyperfine.com/
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The Physics of Hurricanes

Zak and Derek discuss the composite systems of quarks in baryons and mesons, as well as the eightfold way and multiplet organization of quark particles. This is a follow up to the Standard Model episode.
Further reading:
“Introduction to Elementary Particles” by David Griffiths
Eightfold way (physics) on Wikipedia
Murry Gell-Mann on Wikipedia
List of baryons on WikipediaThe podcast lives at https://www.thehyperfine.com/
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Hadrons – Quark Systems

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Neutrinos

The first of a multi-part series on the Standard Model of particle physics. This is an overview of the particles that make up the standard model.
Derek’s main reference book: The New Cosmic Onion
Zak’s main reference book: The Theory of Almost Everything
The Standard Model on WikipediaThe podcast lives at https://www.thehyperfine.com/
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The Standard Model Part 1

Zak and Derek discuss toppling larger and larger dominos in a chain reaction. How does the potential energy work? What are the limits of the setup?
World Record Largest Toppling Dominos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODHofgWv2QM&feature=youtu.be&t=86
The gravity-powered LED light: https://deciwatt.global/The podcast lives at https://www.thehyperfine.com/
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Domino Amplifier

Zak and Derek follow up their Bell’s Theorm and EPR discussion with a survey of Bohmian mechanics, often called pilot wave theory, one of many interpretations of quantum mechanics.
Looking Glass Universe “Bohmian Mechanics- An Alternative to Quantum” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbRVnC92sMs
Looking Glass Universe “A problem with Bohmian Mechanics? Contextuality” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz4CHI_W-TA
Veritasium “Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIyTZDHuarQ
de Broglie–Bohm theory on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory
Copenhagen interpretation on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation
Holland, The Quantum Theory of Motion: https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Theory-Motion-Broglie-Bohm-Interpretation/dp/0521485436
Rosenblum & Kuttner, Quantum Enigma: https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Enigma-Physics-Encounters-Consciousness-ebook/dp/B005H5O1DU/The podcast lives at https://www.thehyperfine.com/
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Bohmian Mechanics – Pilot Wave Theory

Zak and Derek discuss a drone flying in an accelerating car. Does it stay in place? Fly to the back, front, ceiling, or floor? (And does the plane take off?)
The original Reddit post. (The actual question has been removed, but the replies feed the discussion.) https://old.reddit.com/r/Physics/comments/8makbf/i_dont_know_if_this_is_the_right_place_to_ask_but/
Drone in a car YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjTj-tGPSWE
Smarter Every Day balloon (and bubble) in a car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8mzDvpKzfYThe podcast lives at https://www.thehyperfine.com/
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Relative Motion (Not Relativity)

Zak and Derek discuss nothing less than the fundamental nature of reality. They start with the arguments made in the Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen paper from 1935, which were then tackled by John Bell in 1964 with Bell’s Theorem and Bell inequalities.
References:
The original Bell paper (1964): https://cds.cern.ch/record/111654/files/vol1p195-200_001.pdf
The original EPR paper (1935): http://www.drchinese.com/David/EPR.pdf
Bohr’s response to EPR (1935): http://cds.cern.ch/record/1060284/files/PhysRev.48.696.pdf
Bohm’s physics textbook. Specifically, page 29, and Chapter 5 section 3, and Chapter 22 Section 19. (1951): https://books.google.com/books?id=hEHCAgAAQBAJ
David Mermin’s paper (1985): http://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/~maltoni/PHY1222/mermin_moon.pdf
David Mermin talk at Berkeley (2008): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta09WXiUqcQ
Tim Maudlin’s talk “What Bell Did” (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg5z_zeZP60
Bell’s Theorem in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (good historical overview): https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bell-theorem/
GHZ (3-particle) experiments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GHZ_experiment
Bell’s Theorem in popular Youtube channels:
Veritasium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvK-od647c
Through the Looking Glass: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-s3q9wlLag
MinutePhysics & 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs
3Blue1Brown & MinutePhysics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzRCDLre1b4
Physics Girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6WxIblKVZI

(Note: At about 46:40, Derek says “This now gets at the Schrodinger’s Cat problem, which was a reply to the EPR and Bohm papers,” but should have said “EPR and Bohr papers”.)The podcast lives at https://www.thehyperfine.com/
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Bell’s Theorem and EPR

Zak and Derek try to tackle the “climbing magnets” puzzle from Veritasium’s Youtube channel. Both taking different approaches until watching the result together.

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Climbing Magnets

Zak and Derek first discuss what happens to a balloon which holds another balloon that pops while inside the first. Then they try to tackle the physics of sweet spots on bats.
The balloon gif: https://i.imgur.com/96ld4oz.gifv
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