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Space... A vast empty
ocean where a planet

like ours is a remote island...

Alone in the void.

Or is it?

New research is beginning
to unveil a hidden force,

one that shakes
the entire universe

and penetrates space

with trillions
of invisible connections...

Instantly linking every place
in our world

and joining our future
with our past.

Now we're beginning
to grasp these mystical powers.

Is the force... With us?

Space, time, life itself.

The secrets of the cosmos
lie through the wormhole.

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you know the story.

A long time ago
in a galaxy far, far away,

there was a mysterious force,

surrounding us, penetrating us,

binding the galaxy together.

If you could wield this force...

You could do astonishing things.

Seem like a Hollywood fantasy?

Well, scientists now wonder

whether something like
the force could be real.

Could there actually
be a mystical power

that spans the universe,

connecting and binding
all things?

Astrophysicist Jamie Rollins
has spent his career

listening to the universe,

trying to detect
a mysterious force...

one we've never
been able to see.

Over the course
of the history of astronomy,

light has essentially been

our only way of learning
about the universe.

What we see out there
is influenced by forces

coming from things

that we don't actually
directly observe.

It's like walking around
without being able to hear.

We know that there are sounds,

and we know that we could
learn a lot from them

if we could hear them.

There is no sound
in the vacuum of space.

But according
to Albert Einstein,

gravity affects space
in a very similar way to sound.

We've been able to demonstrate
many of the predictions

of Einstein's general
theory of gravity.

The one big one that
we haven't is the fact

that there should be
waves of gravity.

Gravitational waves
are one of Einstein's

most elusive predictions.

He believed that space
is not truly empty,

but acts like
a kind of substance

that can be warped by masses

like stars and galaxies.

And when massive
objects move suddenly,

they send ripples across space,

squeezing and stretching
everything they encounter...

from planets to the people
living on them.

Detecting these
gravitational waves

would prove that we are
physically joined to the cosmos

by a fabric of space,

and that events across
the universe exert

a tangible force on us.

But detecting this force
is no easy task.

The waves that pass
through the Earth

are essentially
unfathomably small.

We have to make incredibly
sensitive detectors to be able

to experience this effect.

LIGO...

the laser interferometer
gravitational-wave observatory...

is one of the world's
biggest scientific experiments.

Each of its arms

is four full kilometers long.

To rule out Earthquakes
and other forces,

LIGO has two
separate detectors...

one in Louisiana,
one in Washington state.

LIGO compares the way
two high-powered laser beams

move up and down
each of its long arms.

Mirrors at the end
of each one bounce

the laser beams
back to the center,

where they're compared
by computers.

As long as the length of the two
arms are exactly the same,

then the light going
into the two arms

will come back
and be exactly in synch.

If a gravitational wave
passes through the Earth,

it would cause the arms
to squeeze and stretch,

throwing the lasers out of phase
with each other.

Jamie is one of LIGO's
more than 1,000 scientists.

And, for him, the principle

by which the detector works
is very familiar.

As a former DJ,
he's used to listening

to tiny discrepancies in sounds.

Let's say I've got two
identical records

that I've started at
the exact same time

such that the songs are exactly
synchronized together.

If we were to disturb one by,

say, dragging my finger
along the side,

then this record would fall out
of phase with the other one,

which would produce a shift
in the sound that we can hear.

If you're listening
to one record,

you might not
notice that effect.

Now if we were
to speed up on record

and slow down the other,
the songs come in

and out of phase
with each other.

This is very similar
to what happens to the light

in the arms
of the interferometer.

The changes in length

that we're looking
for are so miniscule.

They're smaller than
the nucleus of a single atom.

It's completely imperceptible
to the normal physical world

that we experience.

But in September 2015,

after more than two
decades of development

and more than a billion dollars,

LIGO finally detected
a ripple in space.

It sensed a staggeringly
violent event,

one that took place
a long time ago

in a galaxy a billion
light years away.

What we detected was
a binary black hole system

which is two black holes
that are in a tight orbit

around each other...

in fact, at the very end
of their lifetime

as a binary system.

As the two black holes
spiraled together and collided,

the fabric of space shuddered
and a billion years later,

LIGO felt it.

To Jamie, that ripple in space

is proof that gravity

connects everything
in the universe.

It was incredibly gratifying.

But it's also the excitement

to know that there's
so much to be learned

by having this new sensory
perception in the universe.

It's really as if
we're connected

to the rest of the universe
in a totally different way.

One omnipresent force,
the force of gravity,

binds the universe together.

But how does gravity
actually connect planets,

stars, and people?

Cosmologist Claudia De Rham
is taking aim

at the elusive substance
of gravity itself.

For all the forces that we know,

there's a particle associated
with that force,

which is responsible
for carrying the force

through empty space.

When I bring that magnet
close to the horseshoe,

I can feel the magnetic force.

And for the magnetic force,
the electric force,

the particle is the photon.

It's not visible light,
but it's there nonetheless.

And one of the great
mysteries of physics today

is whether there's
a particle associated

with the gravitational force.

Claudia is obsessed

with finding gravity's
hidden mechanism.

How does this mysterious
force stretch across the cosmos,

silently tugging on everything?

But gravity is
not easy to study.

Because of all
the forces we know,

gravity is the weakest.

We think of gravity
as this huge,

powerful force
that keeps us glued

to the surface of the Earth.

But, actually, it's remarkably
easy to overcome.

All it takes is a few fans.

Right now, a powerful

wind is pushing Claudia
away from the Earth.

Molecules of air
are hitting her body

and forcing it upward.

But something else
is forcing her down.

You could almost picture
a tractor beam pulling me down.

And if anything is, in physics,

we're having a huge debate on

whether gravity
is a force or not.

According to Einstein,

there is no force of gravity

pulling on these skydivers.

The huge mass of the Earth

simply distorts the shape
of space near it,

and they follow the contours
of that shape.

But quantum mechanics
has a different approach.

According to this theory of
the most fundamental particles,

something really is passing

between the skydivers
and the Earth...

identical little chunks
of gravity called gravitons.

Right now, I'm exchanging
gravitons with the Earth.

They are traveling
between the Earth and me.

If we could see gravitons,

we'd see tractor beams
everywhere,

making hidden connections

between everything
that has mass.

Claudia believes these
graviton tractor beams

keep us all stuck
to the Earth...

at least, when we're not
in a wind tunnel.

But they have
never been detected

in any scientific experiment.

It's extremely hard
to catch a graviton.

When a graviton comes,

it just goes straight
through me.

To detect the particles
which carry forces,

we build particle accelerators.

But if those forces are weak,

we must build enormous
particle accelerators,

and gravity is trillions
of times weaker

than electromagnetism.

You could think of needing

to have a detector
of the massive Jupiter

parked in orbit around
a neutron star

to have enough mass there

to have maybe the chance
of detecting

one or two gravitons
every century,

and that's being
very optimistic.

But if we could
find the graviton

and learn to manipulate it,

we'd have in our hands
a seemingly supernatural force.

Just as we focused photons
into laser beams,

we could focus gravitons
into beams of gravity.

It's a new world,

manipulating the photon
on an everyday basis.

So, who knows what
would be possible

if we were able
to capture the graviton...

And then manipulate it.

Gravity holds everything
in our universe together.

But the gravity between
anything but giant objects

is incredibly weak.

A tiny action over here

could never create
a reaction over here.

Or could it?

Distance.

It's such a basic idea,
we don't even think about it.

But because we have distance,

that object is too far away

from me to knock over.

But now, suppose I had a double,

someone I'm truly,
deeply connected to.

I could cause something far away
to happen instantly.

Could such a power exist
in the universe?

Quantum physicist
Anton Zeilinger studies

a strange phenomenon
called entanglement.

Entanglement
means that two particles

which have interacted

are connected in
a very interesting way,

such that measurement
on one changes

the quantum state
of the other one.

The particles
of the quantum world

are as unpredictable
as playing cards.

They can SPiN and vibrate
in many possible directions.

When we measure
these properties,

we get random results.

But according to quantum theory,

when two particles
are entangled,

their results
will always match...

As if the particles could
somehow talk to each other.

In a nutshell,
we have two particles,

and I make measurements on them.

The result on each of them
is completely random.

But the two are the same.

How can two random
events always be the same?

Stranger still,
entangled particles seem

to remain connected,

no matter how far
apart they are.

The idea that objects

must be nearby
to affect each other

is what physics calls locality.

So if you consider
a stack of papers,

then locality would mean
that if I kick one over,

the others also fall over.

But entanglement
appears to be non-local,

which means that distance
is irrelevant.

Non-locality would mean
that if these papers

fall over by themselves,

something else might happen...

like this picture falling over
at the end of the room.

On the roof
of his institute in Vienna,

Anton has deployed
a powerful laser

to test entanglement
over long distances.

What we do here is
we create photon pairs.

We keep one photon locally

and the other one is sent
to a measurement station,

which is about three miles away.

After moving his
entangled photons far apart,

Anton measures them both
at the exact same time.

Every time he does this,

he sees the same eerie
coincidence.

Their particles
give matching answers.

To see if it matters
how far apart they are,

Anton has performed this
experiment over ranges

longer than 90 miles.

If the theory of
non-locality is correct,

the connection between

entangled particles
is literally instantaneous,

even if they're
across the universe.

To one of the greatest
minds of the 20th century,

the idea of instant
connections seemed

to defy the laws of physics.

Einstein was always critical

about quantum mechanics
for two reasons.

One was the randomness
of individual events,

and the second was entanglement.

So, Anton set out to make sure

this spooky action at a distance

he saw in his experiments

was a genuinely spooky force.

At Vienna's Hofburg palace,

he found a sprawling subbasement

that gave him room to work.

And we are here
in the second basement,

in the lowest basement,

which we chose because
it has long hallways.

These are the longest
hallways in Vienna.

And, furthermore,
the environment is very stable,

very little vibrations,
it's very quiet.

This hallway is so long
that even light takes

a full billionth of
a second to cross it.

When Anton shoots
entangled photons

toward the opposite ends
of this hallway,

his super-fast
equipment has time

to measure both photons

faster than light can beam
a message between them.

We measure them
really simultaneously.

So fast that there's no time

that they could have
talked to each other

and told each other
what happens.

Anton proved that entanglement

makes an instant connection.

Somehow, two faraway places

can be linked in a way

that defies explanation.

Could a spooky distant
force also affect us

and the events in our lives?

According to this man, it can.

In fact, it could be
the reason reality exists.

We are made of tiny
magic particles.

Entanglement
gives every one of them

the power to make connections

that reach instantly
across the universe.

But if the particles
in our bodies can do this...

Why can't we do it ourselves?

And why does our world
look so...

Ordinary?

If a mystical force

is connecting distant points
in the universe...

Where do we fit in?

Good morning, Toronto.

Your weather forecast today,

a 50 percent chance of rain.

Tiny quantum events
are all around us,

happening at
every single moment.

Quantum physicist
Aephraim Steinberg

can't see them any better
than the rest of us.

But he believes
we feel the effects.

We all go and listen
to the weather forecast,

and at best, they tell us
50 percent chance of rain,

60 percent chance of rain.

We just don't know enough.

According to the standard view
of quantum mechanics,

there's a kind of quantum
weather out there

where we're always doomed
to have predictions

that are only probabilistic...

50 percent chance of this,
50 percent chance of that.

According to Aephraim,

there's reason to suspect

we don't fully understand
the quantum world.

And that reason
is its randomness.

It's these random particles
of the quantum world

that can entangle
with each other,

making instantaneous
connections.

We know that entanglement means

there's a sort
of hidden connection.

It's a mysterious
kind of connection

that we can't describe
mechanistically.

No one understands
why it should be

that the universe
seems capable of speaking

to itself instantaneously
across huge distances,

while whenever we try
to communicate,

we're limited to speaking
no faster

than the speed of light.

If I leave home
in my car in the morning

and I get to work
half an hour later,

we all believe
that you could tell me

where my car was every instant
of the way along that path.

Quantum mechanics is different.

It doesn't have this
concept of a trajectory.

It was in a famous experiment
called the double slit,

where the trajectories
of quantum particles

first went missing.

In this experiment,
light travels

toward a pair of slits
so that each photon,

each particle of light,
might be expected to choose...

either take the left slit
or the right slit.

But offer a proton
a choice of two slits,

and it appears
to choose both of them.

If it was a car,
we could determine

that car would either
turn left or turn right.

It couldn't do both.

But cars and photons
are different in another way.

You could watch a car,

but you can't watch a photon.

So, we'd all love to see how
the photon pulls off this trick.

But when you think
about what it takes

to observe something,

you realize that there's no such
thing as passive observation.

For you to see an object,

you must bounce light off of it.

But if what you're trying to see
is a particle of light...

You destroy what
you're looking at.

The normal view
of quantum mechanics is to say

that we simply cannot ask

which slit an individual
particle goes through.

We can't talk about how
they get from place to place.

All we can talk about

is the probabilities for
where they end up

when we observe them
at the end of the day.

While we move
in predictable paths,

we are made of particles that
seem to skip around at random,

or so quantum theory
asks us to believe.

But it's not
the only interpretation

of what's happening.

Back in 1952,

a physicist named
David Bohm proposed

that quantum particles might

actually follow
predictable paths,

but only if we accept
that faraway forces

are shaping their trajectories.

Aephraim decided to investigate
this idea.

He set out to redo
the double-slit experiment,

to see whether the faraway force
called entanglement

might offer
a more sensible explanation

of how particles move.

Nowadays, we have techniques

that allow us
to actually measure

what a photon's doing
while it's in flight.

We don't want to do this
by catching the photon

and interrupting its trajectory,
if it has one.

Instead, we do it
using the magic

of entangled particles.

When two particles entangle,

they become perfect mirrors
of one another

so one can tell you
what the other is doing.

Imagine two cars that are
identical in every way,

even down to the turn signal.

Maybe as car "a" rides off
into an intersection,

we can't follow it
and see which way it turns.

But we can always
look at car "B."

And if its right blinker
is turning, we conclude

that car "a" should turn
to the right.

Like the two slits
in the experiment,

two roads lead away
from this intersection.

Turn left,
and you get to a church.

Turn right,
and you get to a fountain.

Aephraim can't watch which
road his car will choose...

But by watching the car
it's entangled with...

He can guess its destination.

But, once again,
protons aren't like cars.

Even knowing which
way they turned

will steer you wrong
half the time.

Does randomness
win the day after all,

or is something happening
after the intersection?

Aephraim used entanglement
to keep on watching.

It's as though even though
I can't follow the car

through the intersection
and measure exactly

where it is at every instance,

I can get just
a little bit of information

about where it is now,
where it is a moment later,

and build up a trajectory.

As the photon moved
toward its destination,

Aephraim watched
its entangled partner.

It didn't just tell him
where the other photon went,

it actually influenced
the other's trajectory.

It was as if they were
connected by an unseen force.

The two particles
were collaborating

to from a trajectory

just like the ones we see.

We know based on
the theory of entanglement

that entangled particles are
forever influencing one another.

To understand what one
entangled car is doing,

we must also know what the other
entangled car is doing.

I can't lift up my hand
and cause an apple

on the other side of the quad
to rise up off the ground.

And yet, the world
is simply interconnected.

The universe seems to be busy

talking to itself
instantaneously all the time.

Remember how in "star wars,"

the force is with you,
even if you aren't aware of it?

While I stand here

experiencing plain old reality,

the particles I'm made of
might be communicating

with particles billions
of light years away.

It's a magic trick we do
in every moment.

And science is starting
to get an idea how it works.

Hello.

Oh, you again.

Yeah, I was just... hello?

When we human communicate
over distance,

there has to be
something connecting us,

whether it's a phone line
or a radio signal.

But entanglement doesn't seem
to work that way.

It just happens.

There is no phone line.

Or, can we just
not see the cord?

Theoretical physicist
Daniel Kabot thinks a lot

about distant connections,

and the hidden ways
they might work.

Quantum entanglement is one of

the most mysterious properties
of quantum mechanics.

We might thing that two
things that are widely

separated have their own
independent existence.

But according to
quantum mechanics,

that's really not true.

Objects don't have
an independent

existence of their own.

Quantum mechanics ties
them all together.

In quantum mechanics,

instant connections
are everywhere,

but we can't use
those connections

when we want to go somewhere.

We still have to walk.

Our concepts of distance
and time are so fundamental

that we don't think of them
as concepts at all.

We think of them
simply as reality...

the set of rules
which everything

in the universe must follow.

Hi, I called in an order.

All right.
Daniel.

Pastrami Reuben.
Excellent.

Thanks.
Enjoy.

If we want to get somewhere,

we have to pass through space.

Forget the cheesecake.

If we change our minds
about a lunch order...

Hello, junior's?

We have to cross
the same space again.

Can I get a slice of cheesecake?

But according
to some physicists,

there are faster ways to go.

A wormhole is like
a filament of space

that connects in two
distant points,

not via the route
that we'd normally travel.

It's a shortcut where you'd go
out of our ordinary space

and then reappear
somewhere else.

Forgot my cheesecake.

Wormholes connect
two distant places

faster than light
could move between them.

While there's no direct
evidence wormholes exist,

the same kind of
connection links

two entangled particles.

One idea is that this connection

is actually a reflection
of quantum entanglement.

Wormholes
and quantum entanglement

are very similar
to each other...

could well be two different
sides of the same coin.

Daniel thinks wormholes might
be the secret shortcuts

by which entangled
particles communicate.

And if these connections exist,

the universe may be
filled with them.

You could think about
the early universe

as a hot, molten blob.

As it expanded and cooled,

the space we see began
to take form.

The surface of the globe
is the universe we experience.

There is nothing
inside or outside...

at least, that's
the usual portrayal.

The early universe
started out small,

hot, and dense,

filled with particles as
they interacted with each other.

This created entanglements,

quantum connections between
the different particles

that were present
in the early universe.

And as the universe expanded,

those connections weren't lost.

They left traces behind.

Like the threads
passing through this globe,

the hidden legacy of creation

might be a network of wormholes.

But if wormholes are everywhere,

why don't we sense
their existence?

Daniel thinks we do.

Let's imagine that we had
a huge number of particles,

all with quantum entanglement.

And then we'd have a very dense
network of wormholes

connecting all
of these particles.

If you looked at that network

and looked at it
a bit from a distance,

it might look to you
very much like the space

and time that we observe.

The space around us
might be filled

with hidden
connections dating back

to the creation of the universe.

But could new connections
still be forming?

One scientist thinks
gravity itself

could be making them...

In the universe's
darkest places.

Two vastly different powers
are at work in our universe.

While gravity can warp the space

between distant galaxies,

entanglement acts like space
and distance do not exist.

Today, science is seeking
a theory of everything

that ties together gravity

and the forces
of the quantum world.

Could gravity and entanglement

be manifestations
of the same thing?

Could there be a master force?

For astrophysicist
Damien Easson,

the first step towards
a theory of everything

is a strange one...

figuring out what empty
space is made of.

Nobody really knows
what empty space is.

But we know that at least

what we think of as empty space

is filled with energy.

Damien works on a theory
called loop quantum gravity,

which contends that nothing
is not really nothing.

The core idea in
looped quantum gravity

is that empty space itself

is made out of small
quantum bricks of nothing.

The size of these bricks
is incredibly small...

much, much, much smaller
than an electron

or a proton or other particles
that we know about.

But we believe nothing
can actually collapse

any smaller than that.

Physicists think a lot
about collapsing

because there are places
in the universe

where the force of gravity

is said to crush things
down to nothing.

Black holes are one of
the great mysteries of science.

They form when massive stars
run out of fuel.

Without the outward push
of nuclear combustion,

they collapse under
the pull of their own gravity.

Around the black hole,
the gravitational pull is

so strong that even
light can't escape...

hence, we call it a black hole.

Inside a black hole,

many scientists think matter

is crushed down
to no size at all.

But how could that be possible
if space itself

is made of uncrushable
bricks of nothing?

In places like this junkyard,

you'll find some
powerful manmade forces.

This industrial
size crusher applies

more than a ton of pressure

to every inch of the car inside.

But as the car
gets more compacted,

the machine becomes less
and less effective.

Gravity is different.

If it was only up to gravity,

this car would collapse

and get smaller
and smaller and smaller...

eventually, some people believe,

so small that it would be
an infinitely dense point.

And that's what we call
a singularity.

If singularities are real,

they'd be great places
to make connections.

Inside one, the distance

between things shrinks
down to nothing.

Everything overlaps
with everything else.

Distance and time
simply cease to exist.

But could this actually
happen in black holes?

Damien is not certain.

When we fall into a black hole,

according to
conventional wisdom,

the forces of gravity become

so strong that things
are ripped apart,

and the laws of physics
as we understand them,

break down.

We know however, though,
that since the singularity

is an incredibly small space,

some other theory,

some theory of quantum gravity

must have to kick in.

Black holes are like
the clown cars of the universe,

where everything gets
uncomfortably close together.

Damien thinks that
when the force

of gravity meets
the tiny quantum world,

some funny things might happen.

All right, now imagine
this part of the balloon

represents the space
inside of a black hole.

If we fall into the black hole,

gravity becomes
stronger and stronger.

Space becomes more
and more compressed.

And this is the point

where a passageway opens up
into a new universe.

The passage between
the old universe

and the new universe
is what we call a wormhole.

Where some people
see a singularity,

Damien sees a wormhole,

a secret door to another realm.

While we know gravity
brings things close together,

it may also do what
entanglement does...

build connections
between distant places.

According to this theory,

entanglement and gravity

may work together
as a single force,

connecting everything...

and joining our universe
with many other ones.

We believe that there
are black holes on the inside

of all the hundred
billion galaxies

that we observe.

It's quite possible then that
within each of these black holes

is an entirely new universe,

connected to our universe
by a wormhole.

Our universe may be
just one among billions...

all bound together
by a single master force.

But this scientist thinks

that same force
also unites all time,

and we could use it
to send messages to the future.

Ever have that feeling that
the past isn't really gone?

Or that someone you've lost
is right here with you?

Those mysterious feelings
of connection

are what keep
fortune tellers in business.

But entanglement and gravity

tell us things
are eerily connected.

In "star wars,"

you can use the force
to hear the voices of people

who aren't here anymore.

When we feel the presence
of things gone by,

have they really gone by?

Or are they still with us?

Hut, hut!

Boise state physicist
Jay Olson thinks

we never walk alone,

because in the
entangled universe,

everything that has ever
happened is still with us.

So, this stadium is almost
half a century old.

Teams have played here,

many games have been
won and lost.

Just being around it,
you can feel that

there's a lot of history

that has played out here.

Tackle him!
Three, 32.

Jay likes to watch
football scrimmages.

He doesn't attend
them religiously,

but the way he understands
the universe,

you don't have to.

Go to just one scrimmage,

and you'll experience
many others.

The universe is all of space

and all of time simultaneously.

It's the past that's correlated
with the future,

and so that information
never really goes away.

It's always encoded
throughout all time.

Five!
Set, hut!

Think of the universe

at this very moment
like this stadium...

vast, cold, and virtually empty.

A really big game,
the big bang itself,

happened here
13 billion years ago.

A lot of entanglement
was generated early on.

Because the density was high,

there were lots of particles
bumping into each other,

flying off, carrying these
deeper than normal connections.

And as the universe spreads out,
the matter spreads out, too,

even these particles that
are separated by vast distances

can still be entangled
with one another.

And after the big bang,

the connections keep
on multiplying

as entangled particles
swap their experiences.

To swap entanglement in the lab,

scientists start with two pairs

of entangled particles.

By introducing just one
particle from each pair,

they can entangled
their distant partners.

You could think of this
in terms of human couples.

Jay met his wife, ping,

because they were in the same
town at the same time.

They decided to get entangled.

But ping sometimes
skips the football scrimmages.

Now, suppose things get exciting

at a particular practice...

And Jay entangles
with his neighbor.

Not only are they linked,

but so are the partners
they were entangled with.

Even though they've
never met each other,

they are now
instantly connected.

Weirder still,
connections like this can form

between the future and the past.

Entanglements
don't just cross space.

They can also cross time.

And we call this
time-like entanglement.

Suppose it was 10 years earlier.

Jay's football buddy
was entangled back then,

but Jay wasn't.

Fast-forward 10 years,

and a lot of things
are different.

Jay met ping,
while his buddy got divorced.

Our human perspective says

we can only share an experience

if we are there
at the same time.

That moment wouldn't
affect your wives at all.

Especially if one of you
is no longer married.

But to entanglement,
time doesn't matter.

It simply connects one wife

from the present
with the other from the past.

This is true even though
they never had

the opportunity to meet.

And something that happened
to buddy's ex 10 years ago

could happen to my wife today.

Yeah!
Whoo!

The entangled universe
is an timeless place

where the present
is deeply connected

to the future and the past.

Jay thinks we could
see those connections

if we built a special detector.

It's possible to generate
a detector

that kind of looks at time
slightly differently.

It doesn't see exactly
what your eye sees,

it sees something else.

Like a Jedi uses
the force to see people

who aren't here anymore,
we, too, could see

the instantaneous links
uniting all of time.

And Jay thinks we could tap
this hidden network.

What we know is that this
an interesting property

that nature is giving us.

You could send information
into the future

while skipping
the time in between.

To send his message across time,

Jay would encode it
in a quantum state

and pass it to a particle
entangled with the future.

The message disappears,
but it's not gone.

It's merely skipping over

what we humans
experience as time.

It could be two billion years
or it could be two years.

We could say two years if I
want to be around to see it.

Two years later... Omaha!

Its moment is approaching.

Hut.
With her special detector,

ping can now receive the message

Jay left for her two years ago.

If we can send messages
across time,

could we some day
send ourselves?

The fact that that
entanglement exists

between time, people have
barely begun to think

of what that might
be able to do.

If you could send the state
of one atom, in principle,

you could do two
or 10 or a million

or even an entire
human body or mind.

Will we some day
harness the power

to skip across time and space?

Or the power to move
distant objects

without ever touching them?

Sounds like make-believe,
but such powers do exist.

And they're already
at work inside us.

As we seek to understand gravity

and entanglement,

we are taking our first steps

toward abilities
we have only dreamed about,

toward deeper understanding

of our oneness
with the universe.

There may be no such thing

as the force in "star wars"...

But we have our own
that's just as amazing.

The force is truly with us.