Adam Becker

So somehow there's this subtle connection that we don't see direct evidence of.

When I say we don't see direct evidence, we do see evidence,

But it's indirect evidence.

It's evidence that they are connected.

You can't use that connection.

No one would dispute that they were connected if you could use one to instantly make the other one send a message.

But that's not how this works.

The basic idea was developed by one of the founders of quantum mechanics, a guy named Louis de Broglie, in the late 1920s.

But then he was convinced by some other physicists that it couldn't be right.

He dropped it.

It was independently rediscovered by another physicist, David Bohm, in the early 1950s.

And he sort of fixed up the problems that were with it that Du Bois had sort of left and sort of made it a fully-fledged theory and published it.

And then his life descended into a living nightmare for mostly unrelated reasons.

Oh, no.

Yeah, he got caught up in the Red Scare in the 1950s.

Yeah, he he got he got blacklisted.

He ended up being effectively exiled to Brazil.

And then the U.S.

government confiscated his passport.

So he's trapped in Brazil.