Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed

May 23, 2018
14 min
Season 2018 - Episode 19: Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed

Season 2018 - Episode 19: Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed

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Overview

If you have perfect knowledge of every single particle in the universe, can you use the laws of physics to rewind all the way back to the Big Bang? Is the entire history of the universe perfectly knowable? Or has information somehow lost along the way?

Episode Information

TV Show

PBS Space Time

Season

Season 2018

Episode Number

19

Air Date

May 23, 2018

Runtime

14 minutes