1:34:14Why Free Will Is Physically Impossible | Quantum Physics Documentary
An hour and thirty four minute documentary that puts one claim on trial, that you could have chosen otherwise, and calls every branch of physics that has anything to say about it. Eight chapters, each a witness: Newton's law and Laplace's demon, from a predicted eclipse to Halley's comet to Neptune found with the point of a pen. Galvani's twitching frog leg and Helmholtz measuring the speed of thought at roughly thirty metres per second. The half silvered mirror where quantum mechanics answers why with there is no why, and why randomness was never freedom. The 2018 cosmic Bell test that used 7.8 and 12.2 billion year old quasar light to pick the measurement settings and squeeze the freedom of choice loophole into the earliest four percent of cosmic history. The block universe, where a cyclist in Andromeda has a valid now that contains your next week. And the electrodes, from Kornhuber and Deecke's readiness potential to Libet's 550 and 200 millisecond timeline to Haynes predicting a button press ten seconds early at sixty percent accuracy, plus Gazzaniga's split brain interpreter inventing reasons and believing them. Then the last chapter turns it inside out, through Poincare, chaos, the demon that has to be built of matter, and computational irreducibility, to the claim that determination is not foreknowledge and the shortest computation of you is you. This page rebuilds all eight chapters in order with every name, number and study linked, seven custom visuals, and an honest closing section on where the physics stops and the philosophy starts.