Dark Matter Series - Clip - Schrôdinger's Cat Explanation
If you're a fan of Schrödinger (or his cat) Dark Matter is for you. Dark Matter premieres May 8, 2024.
Dark Matter is a sci-fi thriller series based on the blockbuster book by acclaimed, bestselling author Blake Crouch. The nine-episode series features an ensemble cast that includes Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi and Oakes Fegley. Dark Matter makes its global debut on Apple TV+ on May 8, 2024, premiering with the first two episodes, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through June 26.
Hailed as one of the best sci-fi novels of the decade, Dark Matter is a story about the road not taken. The series will follow Jason Dessen (played by Joel Edgerton), a physicist, professor and family man who — one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago — is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could have lived. In this labyrinth of realities, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from the most terrifying, unbeatable foe imaginable: himself.
Crouch serves as executive producer, showrunner, and writer alongside executive producers Matt Tolmach and David Manpearl for Matt Tolmach Productions, and Joel Edgerton. Dark Matter is produced for Apple TV+ by Sony Pictures Television.
If you're a fan of Schrödinger (or his cat) Dark Matter is for you. Dark Matter premieres May 8, 2024.
Dark Matter is a sci-fi thriller series based on the blockbuster book by acclaimed, bestselling author Blake Crouch. The nine-episode series features an ensemble cast that includes Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly, Alice Braga, Jimmi Simpson, Dayo Okeniyi and Oakes Fegley. Dark Matter makes its global debut on Apple TV+ on May 8, 2024, premiering with the first two episodes, followed by new episodes every Wednesday through June 26.
Hailed as one of the best sci-fi novels of the decade, Dark Matter is a story about the road not taken. The series will follow Jason Dessen (played by Joel Edgerton), a physicist, professor and family man who — one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago — is abducted into an alternate version of his life. Wonder quickly turns to nightmare when he tries to return to his reality amid the mind-bending landscape of lives he could have lived. In this labyrinth of realities, he embarks on a harrowing journey to get back to his true family and save them from the most terrifying, unbeatable foe imaginable: himself.
Crouch serves as executive producer, showrunner, and writer alongside executive producers Matt Tolmach and David Manpearl for Matt Tolmach Productions, and Joel Edgerton. Dark Matter is produced for Apple TV+ by Sony Pictures Television.
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00:00 What's that supposed to be?
00:02 No.
00:04 A cat.
00:06 We have a cat.
00:08 In a sealed box.
00:11 And also in the box we have...
00:13 a vial of poison.
00:15 A single radioactive atom. Oh, and...
00:19 a Geiger counter.
00:21 Now, if there is no atomic decay,
00:25 the cat lives.
00:26 But, if the atom does decay, then...
00:29 the Geiger counter will detect radiation,
00:32 which will set off a charge,
00:34 which will break the vial,
00:36 and...
00:37 poor cat dies.
00:38 Aww.
00:39 Oh, that's right. Oh, that's right.
00:41 Now, the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
00:45 suggests something crazy.
00:48 Before we look inside,
00:50 the atom exists in a superposition,
00:54 which is a fancy way of saying
00:56 that it is in an undetermined state
00:59 of both decaying and not decaying.
01:03 Which means what?
01:05 This guy had a thing for torturing cats.
01:08 Thanks, Riley. No.
01:11 Schrodinger was his name,
01:13 and he had a thing for understanding the universe.
01:24 The answer, for anybody who cares to know,
01:26 is that the atom in superposition
01:28 means that the cat is both alive
01:31 and it is dead.
01:33 [music]
01:47 [thud]
01:49 [silence]
01:51 [silence]
01:55 [silence]
01:59 [silence]