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While you might not think about quantum mechanics being part of your everyday life, it turns out that it might play a role in some of the most familiar things, from the sunlight in the trees to the nose on your face!
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Can u somebody that if we know that all around us are wave the n what is the use of life and inventions,🤔plz tell somebody 🙏🏻
You should do a show about all the interesting visual phenomena that depend on quantum effects, such as the rainbow colors in soap bubbles and oil slicks.
This was brilliant, absolutely fantastic! I really enjoyed the explanations and diagrams you provided. Great work!
Fantastic video. Thanks 👍
dating a Quantum Physicist:
they're expert at superposition principle, black holes, worm holes, three body radiation, Plancking, Quantum "tunneling", and bend space just to spend time with you
Is quantum mechanics just magic wand waving away of questions about science? None of this makes sense lol probability tunneling through hills? Low energy smell? What
Fomo ..Really?
Quantum mechanics really is not compatible with our intuition. Long live science!
Just say quantum mechanics has no idea what the heck is going on.
happy-go-physics😄
⛓️How quantum thinking
is something special 🌔✨
After the Fukushima disaster 2011, I began collecting minds at CrazyLa AirG, referring to myself as a "quantum mechanist". The science/pseudoscience was still so new quantum physicists were still being picked on for calling themselves scientists. *Shrugs*. So I grabbed it & claimed it. Quantum is no persons or company's intellectual property. *Pats myself on the chest*. Mine. & I spoke it like a 1st language. More. Like it were my very teeth.
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I weigh up everything i think & anything that's said to me for potential depth of life within. Quantum ideas don't feel as though they need to be weighed. It feels as though quantum thinking might take delight in the sustained joy of quantum thinkers. It makes me laugh so hard I sometimes cry. It can make me freeze & not breath at all in awe. Whilst i enjoy charting the mind, it will be just like my quantum thinking mind to both bridge gaps & open doors, but then walk through walls anyway as well. It might be a unique perk that quantum thinking may construct pathways through the mind, just ahead of the thoughts that would establish them.
*Feels like I've arrived somewhere way too early, in way too bright a dress*.
Walks up to the jukebox & pops on tunes & lights
All I write is free.
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⛓️💃 https://youtu.be/BVjsberxu58
https://youtu.be/D5Y11hwjMNs
https://youtu.be/MsnegUwNmPY
🥂If I were to collect minds, reduce the degrees of separation betwixt us to disenfranchise flailers & reduce degrees between them, might I help cause a ripple effect of flailers?
Might that the mentality of the flailing solipsistic be ..to ebb 😉. That they ebb, is it a sign that we flow forward? ..I tend to think particles of philosophers, who when walking singularly into crowded rooms only see eachother, over ones who make friends for reasons other than they respect them who I regard as a wave.
I regard philosophers as particles, having wondered that like we were the culmination of the 5 we're closest to, ..were stars also. And I thought, what might it be like never to know that stars (like men) don't all look like one another. Might one day, if reviewed & redescribed as history expands as does universe & we change beneath & including our noses as truth faster than light stubs us so fast our wicks hadn't burnt yet, thinkers had sat bright in the places of ones who'd have had no explanation ..all along?
Does creation walk hand in hand with evolution 👫? Does it matter to know that 2 different critical ideas have more in common with eachother than 2 exact same ideas had based on others say so, to see if our fates to either ebb or flow could be incorporated into our very design? ..again, if truth were to move faster than light?
Right now we are the greatest difference of builds of soul as we've ever been. Covid accentuated us, all the flailers & problem solvers for due to our very different mentalities we've become evident to one another. 🙂 *Splits the sea*.
All I write is free 💨⛵.
Krystel Spicer Mind Ark FB🌊
Scott Lang needs to watch this video.
I have no idea what happened to the last 10mins of my life
I am further convinced that the key to matter being able to live and know is entirely dependent on this universe's quantum properties and are a direct result of them.
There is no way Earth is the only inhabited planet.
Where is the link?
He was right on the small scope but I'm not too sure if he was right on that extendable finger……. scratch that I like to poke people from afar he was right on that too
Do the comments that begin, "FIRST OF ALL, SciShow…" even exist if I don't read them? I sure hope not. Thanks for the vid!
Schrodinger's coherence
Me @ 2:06: Why is quantum coherence written with a dot in the middle?
Me @ 2:08: Oh…
Smelling needed a buff since it was the least popular and useful of the senses
Chlorophyll?! More like Bore’ophyll.
The size of molecules no way dude,,,,, QM are atoms and subatomic particles
tennis balls do not have predictable movements. I would know, I lose every match of Tennis
It opens a portal at your research base, forcing you to pick up a crowbar and get to work
0.75x is the way to go…1x playback is like 1.25-1.5x
Also known as miracles, guess we all believers now eh….
so going back to the sun. what if the power of the magnetosphear of the sun is so strong it helps the electrons overcome those effect instead of the quantum tunnel effects?
One step closer to quantum Smell-o-vision.
WOW! i consider this seriously AMAZING news about quantum mechanics! o.O
i'm kinda into it and thx to PBS Space Time i understand it sooooooooo much better, which is why i'm simply baffled
If you guys want to learn more about this topic I recommend reading Life On the Edge by Jim Al-Khalili. It explains everything in this video and other examples such as in enzymes and DNA. Really interesting
quantum mechanics says we can never know quantum mechanics exactly 😉
duct tape
A great video. I liked the examples related to biology, which made the quantum perspective seem more plausible than what I got from other talks on quantum biology. I think there is too much emphasis on the notion that quantum physics is weird. That seems to be a relic of 95 years ago, when physicists were trying to emphasize that quantum is novel. Today, our culture is overdue in reorienting our school-formed intuitions to realize that quantum is normal, while classical and continuum is the remarkable coincidence, hit upon then selected by some contingent events in evolution perhaps.
In the light of this discussion of photosynthesis and smell, I am starting to think that Roger Penrose (The Emperor's New Mind, Shadows of the Mind) might be onto something with his speculations about consciousness having something to do with coherence in microtubules in neurons. When I first read those popular science accounts, I thought his argument from Gödel's theorem smelled bogus. I still think the argument seems oversimplified, but I am now open to the possibility that there is an important germ of insight there (maybe something to do with cognitive identifications being groupoids up to isomorphism, rather than sets of physical states "on the nose"; in a slogan, "life is not a state function" cited in a Khan academy video on Gibbs free energy I think). Perhaps somebody smart at the level of Penrose might someday make that mathematically precise.