The Ozma Problem (draft for patrons only)
This is a draft for a video that's coming out next week or the week after - I need to fix the section from 3:12 to 4:00 because I got the electron & positron numbers reversed :/ Please let me know if you find any other mistakes! (& please don't share with anyone else)
Oh, and of course patrons won't be charged when the final version is uploaded publicly to youtube.
Thanks for your support!
Henry
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Now imagine trying to explain "clockwise" to an alien using just words.
Well it's actually the same problem as handedness - if you can establish the right-hand rule, you can explain clockwise & counterclockwise.
Why is it called the "Ozma" problem?
Named after the Ozma SETI project (I have a footnote in the video, but it's very brief)
I tried to look up the left- vs. right-handed electron/positron decay percentage online to double-check you. It is surprisingly hard to find a source that simply states the percentages. So thank you for doing all the work and checking yourself. If I were left to find this information, it would take me many hours to convince myself which numbers were right. Did you consider mentioning Gell-Mann, Feynman, Sudarshan, and Marshak for the discovering the chirality of the weak force?
Thanks! Yeah this one got a little bit more into the weeds.