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Infinitely Jesting About the Year of Quantum Science & Tech
Manage episode 425898708 series 3378962
The UN named 2025 the Year of Quantum Science, so Ned and Chris attempt to cram 2,450 years of quantum history into one episode.
A Gambol Through Space and Time
The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. To add to the confusion, Ned and Chris are trying to cover the history of quantum mechanics in this episode. They don’t succeed, but they still manage to cram a good 2,450 years in there, which is pretty good. They starting with ancient light theories by philosophers like Pythagoras and get all the way to the Newton-Huygens particle vs. wave debate. Fast forward to the 1900s when Einstein and friends discovered photons, and things get delightfully mathy with De Broglie, Heisenberg, and Schrödinger.
Links
- https://anilananthaswamy.com/through-two-doors-at-once
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-einstein-really-thought-about-quantum-mechanics/
- https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-abstract/38/4/38/434993/Is-the-Moon-There-When-Nobody-Looks-Reality-and
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-collapse/
- https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/3658/1/perovic_preprint.pdf
181 episoder
Manage episode 425898708 series 3378962
The UN named 2025 the Year of Quantum Science, so Ned and Chris attempt to cram 2,450 years of quantum history into one episode.
A Gambol Through Space and Time
The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. To add to the confusion, Ned and Chris are trying to cover the history of quantum mechanics in this episode. They don’t succeed, but they still manage to cram a good 2,450 years in there, which is pretty good. They starting with ancient light theories by philosophers like Pythagoras and get all the way to the Newton-Huygens particle vs. wave debate. Fast forward to the 1900s when Einstein and friends discovered photons, and things get delightfully mathy with De Broglie, Heisenberg, and Schrödinger.
Links
- https://anilananthaswamy.com/through-two-doors-at-once
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-einstein-really-thought-about-quantum-mechanics/
- https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-abstract/38/4/38/434993/Is-the-Moon-There-When-Nobody-Looks-Reality-and
- https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-collapse/
- https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/3658/1/perovic_preprint.pdf
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