You put a cat in a box
Episode 36
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January 27th, 2017
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1 hr 1 min
What is quantum physics?
- Quantum mechanics 101: Demystifying tough physics in 4 easy lessons (TEDed)
- Quantum physics for 7 year olds: Dominic Walliman TED talk (YouTube)
- 6 things everyone should know about quantum physics (Forbes)
- What is quantum mechanics good for? (Scientific American)
- What has quantum mechanics ever done for us? (Forbes)
- Quantum mechanics (Wikipedia)
- The map of physics: Dominic Walliman animation (YouTube)
- Classical mechanics vs quantum mechanics (Cambridge University Press)
- Newton's laws of motion, the foundation of classical mechanics, break down at the very small scales addressed by quantum mechanics & at the very high speeds addressed by relativistic mechanics (livescience)
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion...apparently he didn't even have a telescope to figure them out! (HyperPhysics)
- "Kepler’s laws apply not only to gravitational but also to all other inverse-square-law forces &, if due allowance is made for relativistic & quantum effects, to the electromagnetic forces within the atom" (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
- What is black body radiation? "Radiation modes in a hot cavity provide a test for quantum theory" (HyperPhysics)
- Quantum theory timeline (Particle Physics Timeline)
- Max Planck solves the black body radiation problem (Fermilab)
- What is a photon? (Wikipedia)
- The wave-particle duality of light & elementary particles...mental (HyperPhysics)
- Explainer: What is wave-particle duality? (The Conversation)
- Richard Feynman on understanding quantum mechanics (YouTube)
- Neils Bohr: "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it" (Wikiquote)
- Richard Feynman: "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics" (Wikiquote)
- The observer effect: When you look at something, you change it (Wikipedia)
- Schrödinger's cat explained (YouTube)
- What superposition? (Phys.org)
- Quantum decoherence (Wikipedia)
- What is decoherence? (Drexel University)
- What is the multiverse? (Wikipedia)
- The theory of parallel universes is not just maths - it is science that can be tested (The Conversation)
- What the hell is spin? (io9)
- Do quantum effects make our choices our own? (Storify)
- 'Quarantine' by Greg Egan was the book Johnny was thinking about, not 'Diaspora' (which is also excellent)
- The basics of MRI: Electron spin is involved (Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science)
- Debating that if we didn't understand quantum mechanics we wouldn't have computers (Physics Stack Exchange)
- How does a computer chip work? (SciTech, CERN)
- Making silicon chips (Intel)
- What is a transistor? (Wikipedia)
- What is quantum tunnelling? (Wikipedia)
- The tunnelling transistor (IEEE Spectrum)
- The 5 nm node in transistors was once thought to be the end of Moore's law - "transistors smaller than 7 nm will experience quantum tunnelling through their logic gates" (Wikipedia)
- What is Moore's law? (Wikipedia)
- IBM beat Intel & currently have the world's smallest transistor at 7 nm (The Verge)
- The best thing about IBM’s super chip? It’s not from Intel (Wired)
- The world's smallest transistor is 1nm long, physics be damned (The Verge)
- What is Heisenberg's uncertainty principle? (The Guardian)
- The uncertainty principle (HyperPhysics)
- Walter White from Breaking Bad named himself after Heisenberg (Wikipedia)
- The one-electron universe theory (Wikipedia)
- Quantum quackery (The Committee for Skeptical Enquiry)
- The 5 most misguided uses of the word 'quantum' in ads (Cracked)
- The Quantum Leap TV show (IMDb)
- "The laser would never have been developed without a profound understanding of an area of fundamental physics - quantum theory" (Institute of Physics)
- The Pauli exclusion principle (HyperPhysics)
- Entanglement made simple (Quanta Magazine)
- What is quantum cryptography? (Wikipedia)
- Google moves closer to a universal quantum computer (Scientific American)
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