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An animated explainer uses a quasar-powered experiment to explore entanglement, predetermined choices and the possibility that spacetime emerges from something deeper.
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Holy sh*t spacetime is fake...
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- 2:47Bell's theorem makes it possible to test predictions of local hidden-variable explanations against quantum mechanics.
- 5:12The freedom-of-choice loophole asks whether measurement settings and particles could share a hidden cause.
- 6:24Distant quasar light determines detector settings, pushing possible shared influences billions of years into the past.
- 9:24The video presents superdeterminism as an explanation linking measurement choices and particle properties through prior conditions.
- 12:05The title's spacetime question arrives through proposals that space and time emerge from a deeper physical structure.
Quasars supply the settings. In the experiment at the heart of The Infographics Show's spacetime explainer, light that has traveled for billions of years helps determine how scientists measure entangled particles here on Earth.
It is an unusually tangible detail in a subject that quickly becomes abstract. Narrated by Josh Risser, "Holy sh*t spacetime is fake..." follows physicists' attempts to test local realism: broadly, the idea that objects have definite properties independent of measurement and that influences cannot travel faster than light.
The route runs through John Stewart Bell's theorem and experiments whose results support quantum mechanics over local hidden-variable explanations. Then comes a particularly slippery question: could the choice of measurement settings somehow share a hidden cause with the particles being measured?
The cosmic Bell test pushes that possibility far into the past. By using distant quasar light to choose settings, researchers greatly restricted when such a shared influence could have originated. That is more precise than saying the experiment eliminated every possible freedom-of-choice loophole.
From there, the video moves into interpretations. It presents superdeterminism, in which measurement choices and particle properties are linked by prior conditions, before exploring proposals that spacetime itself could emerge from a deeper structure. The title's declaration is not something Bell tests directly establish: testing quantum correlations is not the same as proving space and time nonexistent.
The explainer has reached about 1.8 million views. In the comments, cosmic questions meet everyday obligations: viewers turn predetermined choices into jokes about requesting script changes, while others point out that questioning distance does nothing for the gas bill, or tomorrow's work shift.
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If my life is scripted I would very much like to speak to the playwright about some script changes..
@liamfoxySee it on YouTubeDistance is meaningless? Tell that to my gas tank
@Lelldorin84See it on YouTubeat the end of the day it doesn't change the fact I have work in the morning.
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"Either free will is fake, so I had to be late today, or spacetime is fake, so me being late is an illusion."
@JonnySpecSee it on YouTubeEveryone knows time was invented by clock companies to sell more clocks. Grifters have been around forever.
@Aatell764See it on YouTubeWe need loki to give us free will
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Which physicist famously described quantum entanglement as "spooky action at a distance"?
Einstein used the phrase to express his objection to the strange distant correlations associated with quantum entanglement.