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it was the nature of fundamental
particles which make up the world we see
around us that Einstein had come to
Brussels to
discuss and it was here that Einstein
entered into a heated debate that would
lead to the discovery of quantum
entanglement a concept that would
trouble him for the rest of his
life this is the original uh solve
Institute Building and this is a place
back in October
1927 where the fifth solv Conference was
held this amazing week-long series of
discussions on really what the world has
made of on the nature of matter and the
new quantum theory and these steps are
the very
steps on which this famous group
photograph was taken is a collection of
some of the most brilliant people in the
world here in the front row we see
Albert Einstein and the great Marie C
and Mox plun in the back row standing
the Dapper Arn Schrodinger and these
sort of brash 20-year-olds or mid 20s
VOR Heisenberg and B gang
POI these scientists were the pioneers
of quantum
mechanics I had a huge version of this
Photograph up on the wall a poster in my
college dorm room my roommates had their
favorite bands and I had in the 1927 SUV
conference which says a lot this was one
of the greatest meetings of mines in
history
more than half were or would become
Nobel Prize
winners their experiments were showing
that deep inside matter tiny particles
like atoms and their orbiting electrons
were not solid little
spheres they seemed fuzzy and
undefined so th this group here these
were the folks who had just been
Plumbing deeper and deeper and deeper to
find what they hope would be a Bedrock
of what the world is made of and to
their surprise they found things less
and less solid as they dug in this world
was not tiny little bricks that got
smaller and smaller at some point the
bricks gave way to this mush and what
looked like solidity solidness in fact
became very confusing and and kind of a
whole new way of thinking about nature