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]
An important concept in quantum physics are standing waves. They help describe a large amount of phenomena that physicists struggled to explain classically. This includes the aforementioned black body radiation or the orbit of electrons. While it is too complicated to...
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...
