by Nico Aegerter | Aug 7, 2024 | Experiment [En]
In the grand finale of the escape room, you used quantum teleportation to save Eve’s cat from Schrödinger’s box. Quantum teleportation is actually a real phenomenon that is important for quantum computing. Large scale quantum teleportation, like...
by Nico Aegerter | Aug 7, 2024 | Experiment [En]
The final optical element used on the table is a polarizer. As light can be seen as a wave in many cases, it also has an oscillation direction. This is similar to a rope, where the wave produced oscillates in the direction of the hand movement. A polariser is some...
by Nico Aegerter | Aug 7, 2024 | Experiment [En]
The optical table, which was used at the very end, features a lot of hidden physics as well. The most important is probably at the very heart of the table, namely the laser. Lasers are still a fairly recent invention, only having been invented in the 1960s, but are...
by Nico Aegerter | Aug 7, 2024 | Experiment [En]
The first optical element that the laser interacts with on the optical table is a beam splitter. This splits a single laser beam into two. Fundamentally, this is based on the Fresnel equations. Particularly when it is dark outside, you might have noticed that your...
by Nico Aegerter | Aug 7, 2024 | Experiment [En]
In the final room, the path for the mirror lights only became visible by using a UV-light. This is very common in escape rooms, but because of the physical principles that underline this phenomenon, this escape room too makes use of it. Invisible ink works by...
