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What Is Reality? Exploring String Theory and the Multiverse
What is reality? What is the standard model trying to tell us? Are we living in the 11 dimensions of string theory? The holy grail of physics is a theory of everything. It may show the origin of all forces coming from one master force,...
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Where Does Mass Come From? Understanding Symmetry Breaking
What is the origin of mass in the universe? Symmetry breaking. Symmetries in quantum mechanics result in 3 of the fundamental forces of nature - electromagnetic, weak and strong forces. However, the breaking of certain symmetries is just...
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Quantum Physics and Consciousness: Clarifying the Misconceptions
Quantum physics simplified. Are Consciousness and Free Will linked to quantum mechanics? The double slit experiment explained. What is the difference between observation and measurement? Since Quantum Mechanics is the basis of all modern...
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The Four Fundamental Forces: Their Origins and Roles in Nature
if you took a notebook, a plastic bottle, a toaster, and a glass container and burned them in a fire hot enough, around 10^31 degrees Celsius, all the particles and forces, would become one entity. This is what is believed to have...
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Quantum Mechanics Explained in the Simplest Way Possible
This video explains Quantum Mechanics intuitively. Classical mechanics failed to describe how an electron could orbit an atom. An accelerating charge always creates electromagnetic radiation. This means it would constantly lose energy...
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The Surprising Truth About the Higgs Boson "Discovery" at CERN
In 2012, the Higgs boson (the God Particle) was discovered. It's responsible for giving mass to fundamental particles. But the scientists never measured the particle. So how can scientists claim a discovery without ever having seen or...
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The Bizarre Behavior of Quantum Particles
What is the meaning of superposition and wave/particle duality? What do quantum particles really look like, when we are NOT looking? All quantum particles exist in a state of superposition prior to any interaction. This does not mean...
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The Secret to Quantum Chemistry
We take a deep dive to understand how chemistry works at a fundamental level. All chemistry is about electrons. They are the primary drivers responsible for an atom’s behavior in chemical reactions, or more precisely the way electrons...
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What the Standard Model Explains—and What It Doesn’t
Standard Model of particle physics, Explained simply. The structure of matter, that is, everything you see in the universe – you, me, the earth, stars happens to be made up of some core fundamental particles which are governed by four...
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What Is the Universe Made Of? Quantum Field Theory Visualized
Many thanks and shout-out to David Tong's lecture on Quantum Fields for inspiring this video. I highly recommend his free lecture series. In my opinion, he and Richard Feynman are two of the best educators in physics. What is the...
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Is Consciousness Linked to Quantum Physics? Exploring the Quantum Mind
Quantum consciousness. Is quantum mechanics responsible for consciousness and free will? There is a reductionist claim that the universe is a sophisticated kind of clock ruled by the laws of physics. Are we sophisticated automatons? But...
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String Theory vs. Loop Quantum Gravity: Competing Paths to Quantum Gravity
The gauge bosons of the standard model of particle physics are responsible for 3 of the 4 known forces in the universe. A force is conferred is through the exchange of virtual bosons. So for example in electromagnetism, an exchange of...
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Quantum Fields Explained: A Beautiful Theory of Physics
SUMMARY: Quantum field theory or QFT is the basis of the best theory we have in physics today to explain nearly everything, called the Standard Model of particle physics. What is Quantum Field theory? Why is it necessary? How is it...
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What Happens When Quantum Mechanics Meets Large Scales?
SUMMARY What If our everyday life was based on quantum mechanics? What if macro objects behaved like quantum objects? If you are in a classroom with 4 chairs, you would appear to a second student, to be sitting on all the seats at once....
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String Theory vs Quantum Field Theory
SUMMARY: How is string theory related to quantum field theory? Quantum field theory (QFT) is a mathematical framework that is close to a theory of everything. It describes nearly all particles and forces in the universe, and is...
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Here's the Reality of Hawking Radiation
SUMMARY Hawking Radiation DOES'NT Work the Way Hawking Explained it! Here's the Reality...Hawking Radiation: The Oversimplified Picture vs. The Reality...Hawking radiation suggested that black holes are not completely black, but in fact,...
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Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD): Visualizing the Strongest Force
QCD: Quantum Chromodynamics. How can positive protons be so close together in the nucleus, if they repel each other? Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate Hideki Yukawa sought to answer this question. He proposed the first significant...
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Exploring Pilot Wave Theory, Penrose's Ideas, and the Transactional Interpretation
In the Copenhagen interpretation, which is what is typically taught to undergraduate students, particles are in superposition. What is superposition? In quantum mechanics, there is no equation that states exactly what some properties of...
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Is a Final Theory of Everything Possible? Exploring Scientific Progress
Is a theory of everything really possible? What makes us think it even exists? If we look at historical precedent, we can see that we have united seemingly completely unrelated forces and particles to a more basic set of principles. For...
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Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life? Arguments For and Against
Some say that it could not have occurred by chance, that there must be some agent, like a god that set up the constants to enable life. Let's just look at the constants associated with the different forces. Gravity: If the gravitational...
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How Quantum Mechanics Shapes Reality and the Arrow of Time
How does the indeterminate world of quantum mechanics, where the future isn’t fixed, become the classical predictable real world we experience? Quantum researchers argue about it even today. It's really all about time, and the boundary...
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What Is Time? Exploring One of Physics’ Deepest Mysteries
In quantum mechanics, it’s just as natural to go forward in time as going backwards. And if you look at a typical Feynman diagram, you can turn the diagram either way. Where does this transition from time symmetry at the quantum level,...
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How Quantum Mechanics Predicts the Periodic Table
Why do certain elements have similar properties? Because of the way electrons are arranged around the nucleus of atoms. But why are electrons arranged specifically in certain orbitals and shells? The structure of atoms can be predicted...
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Is Free Will Written Within the Laws of Quantum Physics?
The simplest definition of free will is the ability to have made a different choice. Our more precise definition: it is the ability of conscious beings to make choices that are not solely determined by prior physical causes. Since...