“You’re not meant to understand what I just said, because I don’t understand what I just said…” Physicist Brian Cox on one of the most complex theories in space science.
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Physicist Brian Cox takes us into the mind-bending world where quantum mechanics, black holes, and the future of computing converge.
In this interview, Cox shares the engineering challenges behind building quantum computers and the intricate dance of storing information in their notoriously delicate memory. However, black holes have an unexpected link to quantum information storage. Cox discusses how Planck units, holography, and redundancy could shape the future of computing.
It is a mind-expanding discussion that pushes the boundaries of our understanding. Even Cox says, “You’re not meant to understand what I’ve just said because I don’t understand what I’ve just said because nobody understands what I’ve just said.”
Welcome to the frontier where nature’s laws and technological innovation collide.
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About Brian Cox:
Brian Cox obtained a first class honors degree in physics from the University of Manchester in 1995 and in 1998 a Ph.D. in High Energy Particle Physics at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg. He is now Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester, The Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Brian is widely recognized as the foremost communicator for all things scientific, having presented a number of highly acclaimed science programs for the BBC watched by billions internationally including ‘Adventures in Space and Time’ (2021), ‘Universe’ (2021), ‘The Planets’ (2018), ‘Forces of Nature’ (2016), ‘Human Universe’ (2014), ‘Wonders of Life’ (2012), ‘Wonders of the Universe’ (2011) and ‘Wonders of the Solar System’ (2010).
As an author, Brian has also sold over a million books worldwide including ‘Black Holes’, ‘Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos’, ‘Quantum Universe’ and ‘Why Does E=mc2?’ with co-author Professor Jeffrey Forshaw. He has set several world records for his sell-out live tours, including his most recent tour Horizons which has taken in venues across the globe.
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Very professional and well explained.
Really appreciate the way you explained this.
Very detailed and informative.
So glad you uploaded this.
One of the best videos I’ve seen.
This was worth watching.
Very helpful and informative.
The Next Celebrity scientist. Not good for science. Have we not learned anything in the last 100 years about theoretical science and how much of it if not most of it, is all wrong. Big Bang for example .
“Some doors don’t open with keys.
They open when someone finally stops knocking…
and just walks in like they never left.”
I suspect this is the world's biggest con job. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GETTING RICH OFF THIS.
Philomena Cunk: "I mean can you imagine what it would feel like to be sucked off through a hole?"
Brian Cox: "Yeah"
So qubits exist as two states of matter, which is impossible, as a 0 and a 1. Hawking radiation exists within the event horizon and within the singularity. This can’t be a coincidence. How can two identical particles exist within the body of a black hole? Tell me if I’m way off track, are black holes a naturally occurring quantum computer? Or a way to collect information from different universes? I have no higher education in this field, so I’m probably talking out my ass.
(Random thoughts:) 0:46 Then how , in principle, is it possible to restore the information in a burning book.?
Just love Brian Cox, can't watch anyone else!!
They're both complete and utter fantasy
Qbits are deleted because they are Observed by incoherent particles 🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱
I think we ARE quantum Computers.
It's funny, this suggests simulation to me, but I have no way of fact checking you! You might be on the right track or completely bs'ing me. I enjoy the vids regardless.
Brain cox is just another talking out their a…. scientists. No solid proof or evidence pure bla, vla, bla.
The problem with mathematics and nature is that one is limited and the other is not.
Now think about this and you can honestly tell me if I am talking crap. Naturally u would think that the bigger a black hole, the more information it can store however being a quantum physicist with all that deep thinking and complex mathematical stuff, they don’t look at it so clearly yet… it comes back down to the same thing and that is bigger means more space.
I have known this deep down from a long time ago that the more science figures out about this world, the closer technology becomes connected to nature. My theory is that EveryTHING in this observable universe is connected in which ever way science (quantum entanglement) or religion (spiritual) wants to explain it. Funny thing is that these discoveries by scientists in their simplest sense is what religious scholars have been saying for centuries now.
I wish these popular scientists would actually explain what quantum computing is and what it's applications will be in a way that people who aren't physicists can understand. I need someone to say "this is why the computer looks like this, and this is what they will be able to do"
So blackholes could be astronomical photocopiers?
After many years I've finally begun to realize that I will always feel like I don't understand because these things are beyond understanding. We can only think deeply and struggle to finds words to describe these things as best as we can. My personal philosophy has always been that our experience of reality fundamentally is not the entire part of reality. Conscious experience, INCLUDING measurements and information is not the entire field of reality in my belief. I've come to the conclusions early on due to basic logic and reasoning not in any sense mathematical or something measureable but questioning the paradoxical and understanding what your conscious experience is. I based this off the fact that I came into existence, and am experiencing. Therefore reality cannot have a beginning, sure there may be our Universes beginning but there is something that is outside space and time that is infinite that we cannot measure, nor comprehend. Only that by this infinite nature we are summoned into existence and experience not directly but indirectly through structures of mass and energy and physics. Because one thing I believe no matter what is that something cannot come into existence from nothing. Because there is no such thing as absolute nothingness, therefore there was never a beginning.
Simulation theory stored information with space blenders
"the problem is how to store information in the memory of the quantum computer safely – because quantum computer memory is notoriously susceptible to any interference from the outside environment.."
Sooo.. an ADHD brain is in fact a quantum computer?
I understand what you said, pretty much telling us that there is a chance that we live in a matrix, especially with your holography analogy
I home ill wll do my best but something undertand my house plat 1mter35
He said hole, hehehehe! *chuckles like Butthead from Beavis and Butthead*😂
Dude if we ever figure out quantum computing and after that quantum AI. Nothing will be impossible. Sadly non of us today will be alive when that happens. :´(
Para Brian Cox eu Eli Samuel possuo um livro de física as vezes dou uma olhada e sigo certos dias sempre marcando às páginas e quando termino de ler todo ele depois de um tempo reinicio a ler desdo início de volta sempre e pois quero lhe dizer para você Brian Cox que este livro 📙 me deu outro rumo na vida no dia a dia na convivência com meus pais aprendi a me mecher em casa e à fazer me lembrar sempre por isso acho que o livro fala e mostra desde depois de 1900 à 1990 e vi cálculos e equações geometria e tem muito mais exemplos aí e também nomes importantes como ohm e outros e também sobre a racionalidade por isso estou seguindo a vida mas sempre aprendendo as relações com a vida ❤❤❤❤🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 uma boa noite de segunda feira dia 07 de abril de 2025 horas 20:18 .
Ha I understand you 😂 lol
fascinating 100%
understanding (me) 0 K
Could it be that our space/time is just a projection of a more dimensional world which we can’t describe yet, but we only can detect its effects which are projected (maybe in a distorted way) on our reality?
The last ten seconds of his discussion defines why I'm keen on watching Cox's explanations of stuff and things. He excited about learning and failing!
I think it was Richard Fiedm😮an that says as a physicist if I can't explain complicated theories to the average person I failed my job.
Storing a simple identifier on the surface, while saving all the important details behind it sounds like 2 things, first of all, isnt that the point of saving files to a computer? It has less to do with the amount of important details, and more of a mathematical limit to simplified identifiers. Also, we have apparently fed black holes information/ energy/ matter and have reason to believe it is being stored, what is our capabilities of now accessing these things that are stored in the black hole?
There is only quantum decay not quantum computing. There is no search for elusive subatomic particles.99% of physics has been solved.
These fake boundaries and horizons are ways of maintaing control over people.
Denying us our wealth and wives and power over our lives.
Ive just gone down a black hole after listening to this