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Kicking off the series about the path to quantum mechanics, we start with waves. What is a wave? What does a wave do? Content: 0:00 Intro - 🌊 0:51 What is a wave? 4:18 Characteristics of waves 7:26 Wave equations Sources and Influences: [1] Crawford, Frank S. Jr. (1989) „Schwingungen und Wellen“ Berkeley Physik Kurs 3 {Engl.: „Berkeley Physics Course Volume 3, Waves“} [2] Demtröder, Wolfgang (2...

Following on from the „History of String Theory“ video, we’re taking a look at the achievements and shortcomings of string theory and ask the question: has string theory failed? Content: 0:00 Intro - Failure? 0:57 Failure to be Physics - Theory without Evidence 3:58 Failure of Prediction - A Theory of Anything 6:33 Failure of Acceptance - Always just out of Reach 9:58 Failure in Communication -...

One of the ideas for a future particle collider is using muons instead of the electrons or protons currently used. Could we do that? Should we do that? What would we get out of that? Content: 0:00 Intro 0:35 Muons? 2:24 Collide Muons? 4:49 Let’s Collide Muons? 7:03 OK, but why Bisons???? Fermilab bison cam: www.fnal.gov/pub/about/bisoncam/ Sources and Influences: [1] Aimè, C., Apyan, A., Mahmou...

What is string theory? What was it initially and how did we get where we are today? Content: 0:00 Intro - What is String Theory? 1:16 String Theory without Strings 3:41 Supersymmetric Quantum Gravity 6:49 A Theory of Everything 11:14 Lost in the Landscape, Reframed as Framework Sources and Influences: [1] Baggott, Jim (2013) „Farewell to Reality“ How Fairytale Physics Betrays the Search for Sci...

Ever wanted to learn more about quantum mechanics but were disappointed by popular science on the topic? Let’s try to do better… Content: 0:00 Intro 2:55 Quantum Zero: Why the Quantum? Sources and Influences: [1] Baggott, Jim (2020) „The Quantum Cookbook“ Mathematical Recipes for the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics [2] Bell, John S. (2013) „Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics“ [3] C...

Evyerbody knows what it means that things can be hot or cold, we have an innate sense what temperatue means. However, most people don‘t know the physics behind heat and temperature, so that‘s what we look into in this video… Content: 0:00 Intro 1:13 Heat is Motion of Molecules 2:57 Heat, Temperature and Thermal Energy 3:56 Heat isn’t Temperature Sources and Influences: [1] Clausius, Rudolf (185...

„Quantum computers are so fast because they can calculate all possible paths at the same time, thus beating out classical computers.“ This is a commonly held misconception - it’s not entirely wrong, but it’s also not true. In this video, I’ll get into the details of how quantum algorithms work and what quantum parallelism really means. Content: 0:00 Intro - What quantum parallelism is and isn’t...

How „problematic“ was Richard Feynman? Content: 0:00 Intro - Adventures of a problematic character 1:45 B*tches 3:14 Pretending to be a student 4:43 The predator 5:39 The abuser 7:25 Nude models 8:17 Verdict Sources and Influences: [1] Behmard, Aida (2019) „Feynman, Harassment, and the Culture of Science“ caltechletters.org/viewpoints/feynman-harassment-science [2] Feynman, Richard P. (2018) „S...

Dark Matter is easily one of the most mysterious but also misrepresented topics in modern physics - no wonder so many people think it’s just fake. In this first intallment on dark matter, I look into what we think dark matter is and what made us think that - and most importantly, why we think dark matter exists. Content: 0:00 INTRO - The unknown 95% of the universe 1:12 The main findings, a bri...

You have to go to university to study physics. Or do you? Is there any way to self-teach, to study physics without having to study physics? Content: 0:00 Intro - Could you? 1:42 It’s crazy how much you could do 4:11 It’s important to understand you need others 7:25 Still, could you do it? Sources and Influences: HOW TO BECOME A GOOD THEORETICAL PHYSICIST www.goodtheorist.science/index.html

Einstein said „if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.“ Or did he? Sources and Influences: [1] falschzitate.blogspot.com/2021/09/wenn-du-es-einem-sechsjahrigen-nicht.html [2] skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8742/did-einstein-say-if-you-cant-explain-it-simply-you-dont-understand-it-well-en [3] quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/

Is it true that quantum bits can be 0 and 1 at the same time? In this episode in the series on quantum computing, we tackle the most fundamental mechanics of how quantum computers operate - what qubits are and how they work. Starting from some basic ideas of vector algebra, we describe quantum states, basis representation and quantum measurements. Content: 0:00 Intro 2:08 Vectors! (a short deto...

In this long short, I take a look at how Galileo looked at the moon… and managed to calculate the height of some mountains up there. What a legend. Content: 0:00 Intro 1:28 Calculation Sources and Influences: Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountains_on_the_Moon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenean_summit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There are many fascinating facets about the James Webb Space Telescope, one of it being its location. Unlike Hubble, it doesn’t orbit earth, but a so-called Lagrange point, more than a million kilometers away. In this video, we will take an in-depth look into what Lagrange points are and why they are useful to spacecraft like the JWST. Content: 0:00 Intro - Where To Park The JWST 2:29 Preparati...

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