Quantum Mechanics is now easy to understand

camlinhall

What's Prof. Brian Cox on? He's explaining how easy QM is to follow by asking us to imagine a particle in a room and then picturing it showing up anywhere in the universe in the next moment.
And I thought you needed Maths to understand it in any other way than the Disney cartoon version....

Podge_irl

camlinhall wrote: »

What's Prof. Brian Cox on? He's explaining how easy QM is to follow by asking us to imagine a particle in a room and then picturing it showing up anywhere in the universe in the next moment.

I heard the interview and really disliked the way they went about explaining that tbh.

And I thought you needed Maths to understand it in any other way than the Disney cartoon version....

You do to a point. However, the very basic principles and some of the resultant effects are fairly straightforward. Something like the two-slit experiment is easy enough to explain and gives a fantastic insight into just where QM differs from normal Newtonian mechanics.

camlinhall

Podge_irl wrote: »

Something like the two-slit experiment is easy enough to explain and gives a fantastic insight into just where QM differs


Fair enough. I'm prepared to let the professor off with a warning.

Turtwig

Pardon my ignorance here but what interview?

camlinhall

See what you think...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9622000/9622751.stm

Turtwig

camlinhall wrote: »

what interview?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9622000/9622751.stm

Thanks.