One fine evening, audience members packed into a lecture hall in MIT’s physics building. Undergraduates, members of the public, faculty members, and other scholars came to watch a film premiere and a panel discussion. NOVA had produced the film, “Einstein’s Quantum Riddle,” which stars entanglement. Entanglement is a relationship between quantum systems such as electrons. Measuring two entangled electrons yields two outcomes, analogous to the numbers that face upward after you roll two dice. The quantum measurements’ outcomes can exhibit correlations stronger than any measurements of any classical, or nonquantum, systems can. Which die faces point upward can share only so much correlation, even if the dice hit each other. Dice feature in the film’s explanations of entanglement. So does a variation on the shell game, in which one hides a ball under one of three cups, shuffles the cups, and challenges viewers to guess which cup is hiding the ball. The film derives its drama from the Cosmic Bell test. Bell tests are experiments crafted to show that classical physics can’t describe entanglement. Scientists recently enhanced Bell tests using light from quasars—ancient, bright, faraway galaxies. Mix astrophysics with quantum physics, and an edgy, pulsing soundtrack follows. I’ve swum in oceans and lakes, studied how the moon generates tides, and canoed. But piloting a steamboat along the Mississippi would baffle me. I could learn, given time, instruction, and practice; so can you learn quantum theory. Don’t let “weirdness,” “bizarreness,” or “counterintuitiveness” intimidate you. Humans can intuit quantum physics. Follow💗 @decoding_scientific_research 💛 for more knowledge💓, mems💜, fun💙 and information💘 about science and research.💚 @decoding_scientific_research @decoding_scientific_research @decoding_scientific_research @decoding_scientific_research #research #researchers #researchanddevelopment #womeninscience #liftedlife #phdstudentlife #phdchat #phdstudentsofinstagram #sciencecommunication #urbanresearch #science #phd #chemistry #scientist #harvard #sciences #scienceart (at National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJciDN6D31q/?igshid=ik5o88tdmtac