{"id":6234,"date":"2016-12-01T19:06:20","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T19:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrsphysics.co.uk\/advanced\/?p=126"},"modified":"2025-11-25T07:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T07:38:24","slug":"quantum-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/12\/01\/quantum-mechanics\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a title=\"Richard Feynman\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Richard_Feynman\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Richard Feynman<\/span><\/a>, in <i>The Character of Physical Law<\/i> (1965)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But here is a great video to help you understand what is happening<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CBrsWPCp_rs\">Quantum Theory Full Documentary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The link below is to the brilliant video with Brian Greene- this should get you thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CBrsWPCp_rs?t=207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/CBrsWPCp_rs?t=207&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">this link is set up so you miss the blurb at the beginning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or closer to home check out this video<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=egsdQWzxtU0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=egsdQWzxtU0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/science\/physics\/quantum-physics\/quantum-numbers-and-orbitals\/a\/the-quantum-mechanical-model-of-the-atom\">link<\/a> to brief notes on the important discoveries leading to the Quantum Mechanics ideas we know today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ISdBAf-ysI0\">The Sectrets of Quantum Physics<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ISdBAf-ysI0\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ISdBAf-ysI0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>We have always had a great deal of difficulty understanding the <a title=\"World view\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/World_view\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">world view<\/span><\/a> that quantum mechanics represents. At least I do, because I&#8217;m an old enough man that I haven&#8217;t got to the point that this stuff is obvious to me. Okay, I still get nervous with it&#8230;. You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there&#8217;s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there&#8217;s no real problem, but I&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s no real problem.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a title=\"Richard Feynman\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Richard_Feynman\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Richard Feynman<\/span><\/a>, in <i>Simulating Physics with Computers<\/i> appearing in <i>International Journal of Theoretical Physics<\/i> (1982) p. 471.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We choose to examine a phenomenon [<a class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:Double-slit experiment\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Double-slit_experiment\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Double-slit experiment<\/span><\/a>] which is impossible, <i>absolutely<\/i> impossible, to explain in any classical way, and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics. In reality, it contains the <i>only<\/i> mystery. We cannot make the mystery go away by &#8220;explaining&#8221; how it works. We will just tell you how it works. In telling you how it works we will have told you about the basic peculiarities of all quantum mechanics.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a title=\"Richard Feynman\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikiquote.org\/wiki\/Richard_Feynman\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Richard Feynman<\/span><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">,<\/span> <i>The Feynman Lectures on Physics<\/i>: Commemorative Issue, Vol. 3 Quantum Mechanics (1989) 1-1, &#8220;Quantum Behavior.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But here is a great video to help you understand what is happening Quantum Theory Full Documentary The link below is to the brilliant video with Brian Greene- this should get you thinking. https:\/\/youtu.be\/CBrsWPCp_rs?t=207&nbsp; this link is set up so you miss the blurb at the beginning. Or closer to home check out this video&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[782],"tags":[770,783,784,785,618,786,787,788,789,84,790],"ppma_author":[1267],"class_list":["post-6234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantaandwaves","tag-ah-physics","tag-brain-greene","tag-chris-hooley","tag-quanta","tag-quantum","tag-quantum-entanglement","tag-quantum-mechanics","tag-quantum-physics","tag-quantum-weirdness","tag-sqa","tag-unit-2-ah-physics","vs-blog blog-single wow fadeInUp"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":1267,"user_id":3,"is_guest":0,"slug":"n5","display_name":"Mrs Physics","avatar_url":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/OK-scaled.png","author_category":"","first_name":"Mrs","last_name":"Physics","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8437,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234\/revisions\/8437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6234"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrsphysics.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}