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Quantum Mechanics is now easy to understand

  • 24-10-2011 05:49PM
    #1
    camlinhall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭


    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....


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  • #2
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 29,059 Mod ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #3
    camlinhall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭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.


  • #4
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    Pardon my ignorance here but what interview? :o


  • #5
    camlinhall
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭camlinhall


    See what you think...

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


  • #6
    Turtwig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Turtwig


    camlinhall wrote: »
    what interview?

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

    Thanks. :)


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