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Quantum Physics and Consciousness: Clarifying the Misconceptions

12th - Higher Ed
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...
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What Atoms Really Look Like: The Quantum Model Explained

12th - Higher Ed
When Ernest Rutherford realized that atoms have a heavy nucleus, he hypothesized that the way the moon orbits earth is the same as the way an electron orbits the nucleus of atoms. We now know an atom would...
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How Quantum Computers Work: Understanding the Mechanism

12th - Higher Ed
(This is part 1 or at least a 2 part series on quantum computing. Each video will be successively more in-depth.) Classical and quantum computers share many general components - power supply, data storage, RAM memory,...
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Why Gravity Defies Quantum Mechanics: The Ongoing Challenge

12th - Higher Ed
In a classical universe, if we knew all the positions and velocities for all particles, we could predict the future and the past. Quantum mechanics is not like this. It shows that reality is not deterministic but is...
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The Surprising Truth About the Higgs Boson "Discovery" at CERN

12th - Higher Ed
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...
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The Mathematical Basis of All Matter Comes From This Useless Equation

12th - Higher Ed
The 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...
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What Is the Universe Made Of? Quantum Field Theory Visualized

12th - Higher Ed
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...
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Are Photons and Electrons Particles or Waves? Understanding Duality

12th - Higher Ed
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By the end of 1905, we had two big new equations in physics. Max Planck’s, Energy equals Planck’s constant times the frequency, and Einstein’s Energy equals the mass times the speed of light squared. A...
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String Theory Simplified: Could It Explain Our Existence?

12th - Higher Ed
What 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...
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Quantum Fields Explained: A Beautiful Theory of Physics

12th - Higher Ed
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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...
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Is the Higgs Field Unstable? The Concept of Vacuum Decay

12th - Higher Ed
Could 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...
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What Is Time? Exploring One of Physics’ Deepest Mysteries

12th - Higher Ed
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...
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Eternal Inflation: A Leading Theory Behind the Multiverse

12th - Higher Ed
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The big bang model has some problems - homogeneity, flatness, and lack of magnetic monopo
les.
Cosmic Inflation occurred when the entire universe shortly after its beginning, expanded exponentially...
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How Scientists Simulated a Wormhole in the Lab

12th - Higher Ed
A quantum wormhole was created by a team of physicists led by Maria Spiropulu of CalTech. But this was not a wormhole in spacetime, but a quantum holographic wormhole created inside a quantum computer.



The...
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Does a Copy of You Exist in a Multiverse?

12th - Higher Ed
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The idea that there may be different versions of you comes from the concept of multiverses. There are many types of multiverses in physics. But at least two multiverse concepts based on generally accepted and...
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An Impossible Information Paradox in Black Holes Seems to Break Physics

12th - Higher Ed
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In 1976, Stephen Hawing proposed that Black Holes, do something impossible according to the laws of quantum mechanics. They destroy information. This is a paradox because information should be conserved in the...
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Quantum Theory, Parallel Universes, and Quantum Immortality

12th - Higher Ed
Parallel universes are not a theory, but deductions from the "Many Worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics. And there is at least on other theory that predicts not alternate universes but parallel universes where the...
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Is Consciousness Linked to Quantum Physics? Exploring the Quantum Mind

12th - Higher Ed
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...
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Quantum Gravity: Where Einstein’s Theory Breaks Down

12th - Higher Ed
Einstein 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...
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String Theory vs. Loop Quantum Gravity: Competing Paths to Quantum Gravity

12th - Higher Ed
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...
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What Happened to Antimatter? Understanding Baryogenesis

12th - Higher Ed
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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...
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Quantum Entanglement Explained: How It Really Works

12th - Higher Ed
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Albert Einstein described Entanglement as “spooky action at a distance,” where doing something to one of a But it's not spooky action at a distance, at all. So what is entanglem

ent?...
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What Happens When Quantum Mechanics Meets Large Scales?

12th - Higher Ed
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What If our everyday life was based on quantum mechanics? What if macro objects behaved like quantum obje

cts?

If you are in a classroom with 4 chairs, you would appear to a second student, to be...
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How ChatGPT Works: What Happens Behind the Screen

12th - Higher Ed
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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,...