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The Surprising Truth About the Higgs Boson "Discovery" at CERN
New ReviewIn 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
New ReviewWhat 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
New ReviewWe 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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The Mathematical Basis of All Matter Comes From This Useless Equation
New ReviewThe Dirac equation holds the secrets to everything that we can see in the universe. In this video, I show how with this equation, we can start with a completely empty universe, make just one assumption, ask just one simple question, and...
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The Mandela Effect: What Science Says About This Phenomenon
New ReviewThe term, “Mandela effect” was coined in 2009 by Fiona Broome, a “paranormal consultant.” She published a website where she described remembering Nelson Mandela, who had been an imprisoned leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South...
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String Theory Simplified: Could It Explain Our Existence?
New ReviewWhat is string theory? When string theory is simplified - it can answer the question "Why do we exist?" First you must accept that there are two worlds we live in - the world of the large, the world we can see, which is familiar, calm,...
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What Is the Universe Made Of? Quantum Field Theory Visualized
New ReviewMany 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
New ReviewQuantum 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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Quantum Gravity: Where Einstein’s Theory Breaks Down
New ReviewEinstein Field equations explained intuitively and visually: Isaac Newton changed our paradigm by connecting earthly gravity, with the movement of heavenly bodies. He formulated an equation that is still used today - the law of universal...
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String Theory vs. Loop Quantum Gravity: Competing Paths to Quantum Gravity
New ReviewThe 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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What Happened to Antimatter? Understanding Baryogenesis
New ReviewSUMMARY: Why are we here? Why is there something instead of nothing. Part of the answer is rooted in physics. Matter is not the simplest thing there could have been. The simplest thing In physics is nothing, the emptiness of spacetime....
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Quantum Fields Explained: A Beautiful Theory of Physics
New ReviewSUMMARY: 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?
New ReviewSUMMARY 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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How ChatGPT Works: What Happens Behind the Screen
New ReviewSUMMARY ChatGPT is an intelligent chatbot that uses natural language processing. The GPT stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, which means it generates responses, it is pre-trained by humans, and it transforms input data into an...
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String Theory vs Quantum Field Theory
New ReviewSUMMARY: 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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Quantum Physics of Chemical Energy: Endothermic & Exothermic Reactions
New ReviewSUMMARY In this video, I show Why Some Reactions EXPLODE and Others COOL: Root Cause of Chemical EnergyI I show how the chemistry behind endothermic and exothermic reactions can be traced to the underlying quantum physics. When molecules...
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How Teleportation Might Work: A Scientific Look at the Star Trek Transporter
New ReviewIs teleportation possible? In the Star Trek transporter, the atoms in your body get converted to their subatomic particles – protons, neutrons, and electrons, and are transmitted as a stream of particles to the surface of a planet or...
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Is Fine-Tuning in Physics Evidence of a Creator? A Scientific Viewpoint
New ReviewThen Isaac Newton in 1687 showed that planets move due to the same forces we experience here on earth. If things could be explained with mathematics, to many people this called into question the need for a God. But in the late 20th...
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Quantum Electrodynamics: Unifying Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and Electromagnetism
New ReviewQuantum theory solved many problems with classical theory - the photoelectric effect solved by Einstein, atomic model solved by Niels Bohr. But quantum theory had a high price - determinism. it introduced randomness. Events were not...
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Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD): Visualizing the Strongest Force
New ReviewQCD: 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
New ReviewIn 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
New ReviewIs 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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How Quantum Mechanics Shapes Reality and the Arrow of Time
New ReviewHow 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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Is the Higgs Field Unstable? The Concept of Vacuum Decay
New ReviewCould the universe be in a metastable, or false vacuum state? Could there be a looming vacuum catastrophe waiting to happen? Is the universe doomed? This is related to the Higgs boson and the heaviest fundamental particle we know of, the...