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PBS Space Time
Navigating with Quantum Entanglement
Season 7
Episode 3
Erwin Schrödinger suggests that “incredibly small groups of atoms, much too small to display exact statistical laws, do play a dominating role in the very orderly and lawful events within a living organism.” Schrodinger was a visionary - and perhaps very specifically in this case. Because it turns out we might need all the weirdness of quantum mechanics to explain birds.
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