5 Lesser Known (But Fascinating) Facts about Quantum Mechanics

As Simon gets old with beard long and grey, they should give him a fireplace background, rocking chair, slippers and a pipe.

One of my favourite pairs of facts about quantum theory is that: 1) JJ Thomson won the 1906 Nobel Prize for Physics for proving the electron was a particle. 2) In 1937, his son, George Thomson, won the Nobel Prize for Physics for proving the electron was a wave. The one point my A level physics teacher said "You've got it" to me was when I said that an electron will be what an electron will be and that when we just look at from one perspective, it appears as a particle and from another perspective it appears to be a wave, but you cannot look at both perspectives simultaneously.

I've taken a year of quantum physics. It's like those old ads in the 90s. This is your brain (show normal egg) this is your brain on quantum physics (show broken egg).

“If you think you understand Quantum Physics, you don’t understand Quantum Physics” - Some Science Dude (probably)

Clarke’s First Law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

"When these fields get excited they vibrate, and when they vibrate they create particles". Sounds sexy!

For whatever this is worth, I do not understand quantum mechanics.

“Are you just adding quantum before you say anything?” Antman Scott Lang

YES! I love new stuff 😂 Most latest videos are kinda common knowledge, but there have been several as of late, that are actually much more interesting and contain less-common knowledge. Thanks guys!

He blinded me with science!

Small, short lived and unpredictable. You gave an incredibly accurate description of me.

Have a fantastic weekend everybody!

Once you get to wave/ particle theory you’ve left “science” & entered the world of metaphysical speculation.

0:30 - Chapter 1 - Virtual particles 3:40 - Chapter 2 - No cloning theorem 6:30 - Chapter 3 - Wave particle duality 9:40 - Chapter 4 - Quantum tunneling 12:50 - Chapter 5 - It's all probability

"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." - Richard Feynman

Thanks for this excellent presentation.

I just try to memorize Quantum mechanics, I gave up trying to understand the physics behind it...

In response to chapter 5. Yes. We have uncertainty at a quantum level, but somewhere between the quantum level and the atomic level this uncertainty turns into a certainty. After all, jupiter doesnt suddenly jump from place to place, and neither do atoms. But the things atoms are made of, even thier individual particles (well at least the electron) can. So somewhere between the size and energy of an electron and the size and energy of a proton (not talking charge which seems to be related to how a particle interacts with the electromagnetic field, independant of mass and total energy, though its hard to say that since the mass of individual atomic parts doesnt really change and neither does the charge) there is a physics rule we dont know yet that causes uncertainty to become certainty.

BTW The first scientist to theorize that light is made up of particles rather than waves was Ibn Sina in the 11th century. His contemporaries thought it was crazy, and it would be another six centuries before Newton came up with the same idea.

Wow, BOOM 🤯 Mind is blown