A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics - with Sean Carroll
The mysterious world of quantum mechanics has mystified scientists for decades. But this mind-bending theory is the best explanation of reality that we have.
Sean’s book "Something Deeply Hidden" is available now - geni.us/jrBLV
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Whether it’s Schrödinger's cat or the many worlds interpretation, the ideas quantum mechanics throws up about the reality we live in can seem incredibly strange and daunting.
In this talk, Sean walks you through the history of quantum discoveries, from Einstein and Bohr to the present day, guiding you through the most intriguing subject in science and explaining his own favourite theories along the way.
Sean M Carroll is a theoretical physicist, specialising in quantum mechanics, gravitation, cosmology, statistical mechanics, and foundations of physics, with occasional dabblings elsewhere. His official titles are Research Professor of Physics at Caltech and Research Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, writer Jennifer Ouellette.
This talk was filmed in the Ri on 22 January 2020.
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I have spent 56+ minutes suspended in a state of superposition of both, understanding and not understanding Sean Carrolls lecture. And yet I have enjoyed it immensely and consider it a time well spent. Somewhere in a multiverse of possibilities I am ready to receive my honorary quantum mechanics degree. No, wait... the cat is actually asleep.
I started a few years ago binge watching Carrol lectures, I take several week breaks and then I rewatch, after awhile I began to accumulate an understanding, so keep listening, the quest for clarity is rewarding❤️
How do know if the cat is actually asleep without looking in the box - did you remote view it somehow?
@@greggrant4614 I looked. The cat is dead of cyanid poisoning. But wait! Maybe he's only pretending. And about what I got out of this lecture as far as knowing who's on first, second or third.
The line (me) is forming behind you
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Listening to this guy is a genuine pleasure. Not only the content but the delivery is top notch. No boring stuff, no excess nerd humor, a little irony.. all is nicely spoken. Wonderful content. Also he speaks with absolute clarity in terms of understanding by non english language native people. Amazing.
It is amazing how again and again he is able to shine this light of knowledge and understanding on a subject so complex, yet through his knowledge and ability to compartmentalize pieces of information, giving the audience a sense of understanding of something otherwise well beyond it's reach! Amazing.
Is this the first cult you joined?
He is a paid shill
@@yasirpanezai5690 by whom and for what? Is there any validation for your conspiracy? This is science for science sake, I think
@@jwvandegronden he belongs to the scientific mafia that peddle pseudo science and make millions.
This is way beyond my expectation ! Best lecture on this topic I have ever learned. I am so grateful to find this lecture. Allow me to express my highest respect to you Prof. Carroll.
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To me, it looks like Sean is reaching a mature pedagogical perfection in Quantum lectures! It is always a great service for students, researchers, and seekers to see and hear lucid talks like these. Thanks and looking forward to the progress of the theory.
Glad you found it lucid. I'm now switching to women's triple jump.
The cat was drowsy
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Just a reminder, Sean has a podcast on KZhead called Mindscape. He talks about everything from wine, conciousness, end of the universe to physics. Still, much of it is physics.
@Dirk Knight Funny. 4/10
Is this physics worldstar?
I sat in on a couple of lectures of his “General Relativity” class at the University of Chicago in the Autumn Quarter of 2001. Left after the math got too heavy for me (a Divinity School grad student at the time). He was very kind and allowed me not only to sit in on his lectures but even answered wild questions I would ask him as the physics students would all sit there wondering who the hell this crazy guy (that would be me) was. Great to hear this lecture. I’ll bet he’s still one of the nicest geniuses you’ll ever meet.
What exactly makes him a genius ?
@@rayagoldendropofsun397 His innate disposition through which nature gives the rule to art
@alexausberlin The basis here is about Science FACTs, can he be innate on Science FACT'S ?
Thank goodness for KZhead. I can stop Sean's lecture, look up words, and replay the last section. If I had been sitting in the audience I would have been totally lost. The quantum world is a wonderful mystery!
Outstanding. I love when people are great speakers. A good lecturer can keep you interested, get you laughing here and there, but a great energetic speaker with a great voice carries you along on a wave of modulation - this man is that.
I now have "wave of modulation" to the tune of Wave of Mutilation in my head.
I'm not here for the lecture. I'm here to support my parallel self who is here for the lecture.
You made me laugh ao hard
😂
this is my parallel self who is commenting.
😂 nice! refer to.. : 6:04
Wait, what!?
magical how he explains such difficult concepts to a layman like myself--thank you!
You're very welcome!
I love the brilliance of Sean Carroll and how clear he can explain theories. Sean Carroll's explanations will enable me to get as close to understanding quantum mechanics as I ever will. Thank you for this very interesting lecture!
I won't remember any of this in the morning...but I still dig it.
Colchis 30000 just keep watching like I do lol
In another universe I remember everything. Too bad I'm stuck in this universe 😣
Gurd MLB at least y’all are entangled. You should be proud of your other self
I go "huh" half the time and also dig it! :D
@@SG-ig2eu theory of numbers
The idea of linking quantum entanglement with spacetime-geometry/curvature is just so fascinating.
I agree. Is there a name for this theory? I get plenty of articles when I search for entanglement determined spacetime, but is there a name? Who came up with it?
@@Wander4P A friend majored in physics once told me that the theory related to something called 'holographic entropy'. But I don't know anything more about it, you can search for this topic.
yes, and I would love to hear my most beloved god-walking-in-the-skin-of-a-man Roger Penrose think on that ....and comment in real time ! .....(Perhaps he has already ). But It has been very fun to hear Sean Carroll talk with so much enthusiam for the whole history of this stuff. Great fun !
Maybe they can define a distance metric based on entanglement and link it to Minkowski or other metrics needed to derive the curvature of space-time.
Simply fabulous and a really lucid example of testing thinking skills before reaching a scientific conclusion. I'm buying the book!!
Brilliant job! I did a little physics study in college years ago and still I am thrilled to hear the latest report on subjects like this. Sean is fun to listen to more than once. I have watched this one twice.
It seems you did very little physics, indeed. ;-)
I too watched for the second time.
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Sean Carroll is back! Edit: Just found time to watch this amazing science communicator return to the RI (this time without his wife). The talk has forever changed the way I think about quantum mechanics and the universe. A very memorable talk that tempts me into buying his new book "Something Deeply Hidden". I thought it was such a bold move by Prof. Carroll; to take these quantum mechanical "interpretations" and make them 'theories'. Its exactly what this field of science needs right now. Creating new theories based from entanglement and getting people to stop using classical mechanics as a starting point would forever change physics. Thanks again to the RI for bringing back Sean Carroll for another insightful lecture!
Yea! I 'liked' the video without watching.
@@sarahlee9979 Oh right. Thanks for reminding me.
@@sarahlee9979 A pavlovian brainwashed person would do that. Have you watched it yet?
Sean Carroll is a charlatan.
@@ZeroOskul what makes you say that?
As much as I think many worlds isn't right, I love his attitude. He isn't sugarcoating the problem, he's attacking it head on. Nobody knows how quantum mechanics works, and we'll never know how gravity interacts with particles until we understand quantum mechanics, at least better than we do now.
That's exactly how I feel about Sean Caroll. Many worlds is difficult to stomach and also pushes the problem beyond what is almost certainly the limits of ever being tested/falsified. But his attitude and openness about the embarrassing state the field of quantum mechanics finds itself in, is refreshing and desperately needed. Otherwise, theoretical physicist might as well start calling themselves technicians/engineers. And instead of insisting that particles at the quantum mechanical level are "weird" or "odd", just say they're "magic". It's what many of the explanations amount to anyway...
@@chronic_cynic Notwithstanding your misgivings, it is the simplest description that comes out of the Schrodinger equation. Anything else is just adding more of the unexplainable and thus further complicates the problem. Sean Caroll does an adequate job of explaining only what can be observed, as simply as possible, and doesn't make assumptions, which is what other quantum interpretations tend to do (aka magic).
@Hlafordlaes Matter and energy only have to be conserved in each of the unique universes. Thus, no physics laws violated.
@Hlafordlaes There is a different solution which is simply that the different branches of the universal wavefunction don't have an equal "weight" or "width". Say that there's an electron which we predict will have a 50/50 chance of either being measured as spin up or spin down if we run an experiment on it. According to the many worlds interpretation, if we do the measurement there will be a branch of the universal wavefunction where the electron is spin up and we observed it to be spin up and a branch of the universal wavefunction where the electron is spin down and we observed it to be spin down. However, each of those branches will only have 50% of the "width" or "weight" (or however you want to conceptualize it) of the original branch which the two new "worlds" branched from. In fact, it is exactly this width of the resulting branches predicted by the Schrödinger equation which (in the Many Worlds interpretation) creates the appearance that quantum mechanics is intrinsically stochastic. If in a different experiment we predict that the chances of measuring a particle as spin up are 80% and spin down only 20% that just means that the corresponding branches of the universal wavefunction will have a width of 80% and 20% of the branch which they themselves branched from. This works out mathematically and it doesn't violate any conservation laws. If it did then this whole idea would have already been dismissed long ago. Edit: I want to add something to reply to the claim or "misgiving" that Many Worlds is untestable or unscientific. It is strictly speaking true that there's no way to directly empirically demonstrate that there are other branches of the universal wavefunction which are just as real as the one that we happen to find ourselves on. Well, seems like this is just a philosophical matter which science doesn't have much to say about, right? Wrong. If we have a description of physics which has held up to all attempts of falsification as well as Schrödinger's equation has then we have very firm reason to take any predictions made by that description seriously, whether we can directly verify those predictions or not. The point is that Schrödinger's equation actually *predicts* Many Worlds and, as Everett showed, it can also account for the fact that we never directly observe anything in a superposition *entirely on its own,* without any collapse of the wavefunction when you make a quantum measurement. What all the other interpretations of quantum mechanics do is simply *adding stuff* to our fundamental description of reality *in order to get rid* of the Many Worlds predicted by the Schrödinger equation. This becomes especially problematic when we add vaguely defined concepts such as "observer" into our fundamental description of reality as is the case in the Copenhagen interpretation. Ultimately, the Many Worlds interpretation is just what you get when you apply Occam's razor to quantum mechanics. It may superficially seem like you're adding a lot to your picture of reality by allowing for all these different worlds, but actually you're making *much fewer* assumptions while still accounting for all the observable phenomena AND also providing an explanation for the (apparent) stochastic nature of quantum mechanics.
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Perfect lecture! Besides, his engligh is so clear that I could understand more than 90%! Thank you for sharing!
Absolutely the best presentation I have seen on Quantam Mechanics anywhere in the past 20 years.
This is actually the first presentation I've seen on it but thats cause I'm just now getting into the field today and im only a 14 year old high school freshman.
This is one of my favorite videos ever. Really convinced me both that the Many-Worlds interpretation is a good way of thinking about the universe, and also that trying to interpret quantum mechanics is philosophically important.
Most quantum physicists do not endorse the multiple/infinite universes theory...
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One problem I always struggle with in the multiverse theory is the sheer number of universes that would need to exist. There are uncountable quantum interactions every moment and to think that every time the number of universes would double. It’s beyond comprehension for me.
I have never seen a hop to the left executed with such scientific fervor! I love Sean Carroll....all the different ones in all the different universes!
I have learnt two things are true: Quantum Mechanics is not Mechanics, Software Engineering is not Engineering.
Quantum Entangled Twisted Tubules: When we draw a sine wave on a blackboard, we are representing spatial curvature. Does a photon transfer spatial curvature from one location to another? Wrap a piece of wire around a pencil and it can produce a 3D coil of wire, much like a spring. When viewed from the side it can look like a two-dimensional sine wave. You could coil the wire with either a right-hand twist, or with a left-hand twist. Could Planck's Constant be proportional to the twist cycles. A photon with a higher frequency has more energy. (More spatial curvature). What if gluons are actually made up of these twisted tubes which become entangled with other tubes to produce quarks. (In the same way twisted electrical extension cords can become entangled.) Therefore, the gluons are actually a part of the quarks. Mesons are made up of two entangled tubes (Quarks/Gluons), while protons and neutrons would be made up of three entangled tubes. (Quarks/Gluons) The "Color Force" would be related to the XYZ coordinates (orientation) of entanglement. "Asymptotic Freedom", and "flux tubes" make sense based on this concept. Neutrinos would be made up of a twisted torus (like a twisted donut) within this model. Gravity is a result of a very small curvature imbalance within atoms. (This is why the force of gravity is so small.) Instead of attempting to explain matter as "particles", this concept attempts to explain matter more in the manner of our current understanding of the space-time curvature of gravity.
I must admit, I was hoping for a Rocky Horror-based joke after he did a hop to the left.
What an excellent lecture - on so many levels.
I wish I could have a professor like Dr Carroll he speaks so clearly
Professors wish they had better students
@@petergianakopoulos4926 I'd be willing to be a student of Carroll's I really care for this field I'm a beginner and newbie to this field. Watching these lectures is a helpful to understanding it I really want to be a scientist and professor on this field some day
First time I've actually been explained to on how you arrive at Many Worlds, this is a really excellent lecture on the current state of quantum theory for the (educated) layman. I can't enthuse enough about how clearly and methodically you're taken through the description of the arguments, so you're just ahead of his conclusions and cry "oh yes of course!" just before he comes out with it.
He makes me feel like I actually understand the subject. Feynman would be grinning from ear to ear!
Well the point of quantum mechanic's theory is that no one does. It's like his fox story. No one trying to find out anymore so just left that and teaching fairytale to students. He actualy trying to understand what is happening that's why you think you understand something. He dosent understand it either but trying to do so and feels like is closer than anyone else. For me listening to him i start bealive that real physicists actually still exist.
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@@lurker668 there is no point, quantum mechanics is just not intuitive because we evolved to understand the macro world not the micro, but that doesn't mean you can't understand it, it just doesn't feel right, but that is irrelevant.
Really? I thought he used unnessecary jargon and bad explanations. Idk if Feynman would like him at all
@@SuperMaDBrothers he needed to use jargon otherwise this would be a 4 hour video, but of course feynman would have explained it much clearer
Clear and concise as concise can be under your control. Thank you for your time and effort.
I am not a scientist but I love listening to this. My incomprehension of quantum mechanics seems so much clearer now.
I'm not a scientist either but this field is one of a good ride And I am new to the field i'm only a 14 year old highschool freshman but my inspiration and desire of science has made me consider being a scientist and being a professor on this field.
Superb!!! I've been telling people about this for a while, and now it is nice to see it coming in such a straightforward way from an authoritative source.
One of the best lectures I ever attended at the RI, Sean's a natural.
Too bad it's all just theory
I found it a good read as a beginner and newbie to this field.
Absolutely fascinating! Already watching it a second time, thanks for posting.
The material world is an imagination of a conscious mind.
He has a good sense of humor which keeps the topic interesting ...
Get a life
I was so afraid when I saw the title, that I would not understand one bit of this - but it was explained so great and with so much enthusiasm and clearness, that even a Humanities scholar of Very Little Brain and with English as second language like me could follow (and, of course, love it). Thank you, Royal Institution, and thank you very much, Sean Carroll!
I've watched this video over and over and over again and each time I learn a little more.
Best quantum mechanics discussion I've heard. Fantastic
This was the most understandable overview of quantum mechanics I have listened to.
This was amazing. It summed up the reading I've been doing over the past few months and filled in a few key gaps due to the excellent explanation. I'm so inspired by this research and wish we could fast forward a few years like Sean said to see a fuller picture of how quantum mechanics may describe our existence. 👏
Brains and an amazing sense of humor… you got it all! Thank you for another stunning talk!!!!
Love these 1 hour talks. At the end I can string half a sentence together to make myself look smart, in company that is smarter than myself.
The best lecture on this topic I've ever heard! Thank you Dr. Carroll. I envy your students!
You have been taken on a tour of La Puta.
I'm so jealous of his students!!! This topic is so good
Wow! not sure how I came about your video here but I watched it start to finish and was fascinated! Thank you for such a brilliant lecture!! ♥️ No uni student here but found this fascinating and a great description / understanding of such a complex science, kudos!! 🙌🙌
Such a gifted communicator as well as a brilliant mind.
I listen to this lecture every night to go to sleep, and have been for the past year. It's very comforting
I don’t know about anyone else but the last part was my favorite :-) what I think is so interesting is the idea that empty space is not empty. I know Lawrence Krauss has talked about this before but it’s a real mind bender and I can’t wait to see what comes from the next decade of research into this area.
If you find yourself after even more of a Sean Carroll fix after you've watched this talk and the Q&A, then fear not - we've got you covered: kzhead.info/sun/Za6se9uxiXifjJE/bejne.html In this video Sean walks you through the history of the Big Bang. Nice and simple, right?
Whoooobuddy!!!
@theroyalinstitution you mention a q&a for this talk. Where can I find the video?
Q
@@Kwayzar_ In the universe where Sean hopped to the right
That was just terrific. Entertaining, informative and understandable to the layman.
I am very happy to have found Sean Carrol in spite of a 3 years delay. I love this approach to gravity although I'm still wondering about the reality of the many worlds interpretation
Hi from the universe where he jumped right, just wanted to say hello, cheers
Always welcomed,thanks for jumping in.
No Name it just virtually happened to us too!
Ah. And you communicated to this universe how?
@@ZeroOskul Magic
please tell him to stop this "doing" of universes at each lecture... where do we get then? :)
1: Hey, man, how're you? 2: Weird, I'm in a superposition. 3: Weird.
'Do you want a glass of wine or a glass of beer?' 'Yes'
@@LittrowTaurus or does he want a glass of glass
Why electromagnetism is BS? The theory states that the electromagnetic waves propagate in vacuum space at 3 x 10^8 m/s. The fact is there is no electric and magnetic force carrier that exists in the vacuum space, therefore it is impossible producing any waves. The theory states that the current flows back and forth in the antenna can produce EM waves. The fact is an antenna is a terminal of an electrical circuit, not a closed circuit, it is impossible to have current flows back and forth. The theory states that the conductors carry free electrons. The fact is free electrons will flow to positively charged nuclear first due to the super-strong electrostatic attraction force. If there are free electrons in conductors, they will discharge into nuclear and destroy the atoms.
Comment of the decade !
A: lets go the the superposition bar. B: but i swear, if someone looks at me im leaving!
Thank you, Prof. Carroll! I really appreciate how you discuss and pinpoint everything about quantum mechanics. It's not a mystery, It's not magic, it's just science! GBY!
Extraordinarily engaging lecture on such an incomprehensible subject . Amazing.
Great lecture. I've always felt uncomfortable to admit that I really don't understand quantum mechanics, especially as I have a degree in Mathematical Physics! So thank you Sean Carroll, I'm beginning to get some understanding now!
There's "understanding" and there's "understanding". When they say "no one understands it", they really mean the fundamental foundations of it. The day to day stuff can be understood by side stepping the pop-science retelling of it (i.e. the "spookiness", quantum "weirdness" etc).
Quantum Entangled Twisted Tubules: When we draw a sine wave on a blackboard, we are representing spatial curvature. Does a photon transfer spatial curvature from one location to another? Wrap a piece of wire around a pencil and it can produce a 3D coil of wire, much like a spring. When viewed from the side it can look like a two-dimensional sine wave. You could coil the wire with either a right-hand twist, or with a left-hand twist. Could Planck's Constant be proportional to the twist cycles. A photon with a higher frequency has more energy. (More spatial curvature). What if gluons are actually made up of these twisted tubes which become entangled with other tubes to produce quarks. (In the same way twisted electrical extension cords can become entangled.) Therefore, the gluons are actually a part of the quarks. Mesons are made up of two entangled tubes (Quarks/Gluons), while protons and neutrons would be made up of three entangled tubes. (Quarks/Gluons) The "Color Force" would be related to the XYZ coordinates (orientation) of entanglement. "Asymptotic Freedom", and "flux tubes" make sense based on this concept. Neutrinos would be made up of a twisted torus (like a twisted donut) within this model. Gravity is a result of a very small curvature imbalance within atoms. (This is why the force of gravity is so small.) Instead of attempting to explain matter as "particles", this concept attempts to explain matter more in the manner of our current understanding of the space-time curvature of gravity.
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." - Feynman Feynman won his 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in quantum electrodynamics,
Well, I'm about to make it less understandable - even to Sean, with his "many-worlds", should he read this, by posing a stumper. Many-worlds, Bohm, Copenhagen: those are all accounts of "Measurement Theory". In quantum theory, by von Neumann's account, there are two postulates: Evolution, which says that a quantum state evolves in time, as given by the Schroedinger Equation; and Projection, which says that a "projection" occurs at specific points in space and time - those points corresponding to measurements. (Whether the place of measurement has to be staffed by anyone, or can be done without anyone at the switch is a separate issue, but not important for *my* question). The purpose of Measurement Theory is to try and provide some account of and formulation for the Projection Postulate. There are two separate accounts of quantum theory, called "Pictures"; the above postulates and just about everything (and everyone else) are all in the Schroedinger Picture. In it, a state evolves in time, and the variables describing a system are timeless operators that applied to the state to get (generally time-dependent) values. It is in the Schroedinger Picture that the many-worlds "splits" are framed in terms of. In the Schroedinger Picture, moreover, time is cast as an arena of "happenings" - an "historical" time. The other picture is the Heisenberg Picture. It, too, has its own version of the Evolution Postulate - taking the form of the Heisenberg Equation. In it, states are *timeless* and the variables describing a system have time-dependence. The time-dependence, in contrast to the Schroedinger Picture, however, is on the same footing as spatial-dependence, so that time in the Heisenberg Picture is on the same footing as space; and the Heisenberg Picture's view of time is as something that is "all there" -- which is the same way that Relativity sees time. Here's the stumper: the "well-known" equivalence between the Schroedinger and Heisenberg Pictures pertains *only* to the Evolution Postulate! There's no equivalence for the Projection Postulate, because ... there's no Projection Postulate in the Heisenberg Picture! None that is well-known and has received consensus acceptance. In fact, there's no Measurement Theory in the Heisenberg Picture at all! There have been few attempts to formulate one; but (again) nothing that's received wide acceptance. So ... if "many worlds" is all true and correct, then what's the Heisenberg Picture version of it? States don't split in the Heisenberg Picture, because they're timeless. There's no historical time in that picture at all. So, what's splitting? So, clearly, Sean (and quite a few others) are not getting the whole picture right; and their accounts of quantum theory are incomplete. There's a huge gap: the No-Measurement-Theory-In-The-Heisenberg-Picture Gap.
feynman himself said ;" if someone says they understand QM, their a liar, and if someone says i dont understand QM at all, that means they understand a little bit"
Sean is the genius for explaining and teaching sophisticated issues!!! God bless Him!!!
One thing I enjoy here is Dr. Carroll's clean and concise language. 28:44- This way entanglement makes perfect sense.
I like the way he says the last third will be incomprehensible to most of us, but then gives us completely comprehensible arguments. A good salesman will always make his buyers feel great about themselves.
Excellent job, possibly the best explanation I've heard to date.
Good job Sean! I'll be watching this repeatedly to "mine" your presentation of the Many Worlds paradigm. I too have been thinking about starting with Planck's granularity and working up to macroscopic physics; your comments on that approach are a welcome bit of encouragement.
Thank you for giving such a wonderful lecture sir.
An amazing speach. Looking forward to a proper formalization of the theory
another great lecture that's gonna take a few watches over next few days but haven't found anyone who explains it as well as yourself, thanks for always breaking my brain ha
"For those of you who where tortured by Chemistry classes as college students, you recognised these orbitals" Really really felt that...
I always suspected that the chemistry teacher was making that sht up!
This was artfully done. I'll be honest and say that the many worlds interpretation does sound so incomprehensibly big to me that I kinda subconsciously don't take it very seriously. So when he talked about how it came about using a different name for it, I was able to get on board a little more. Then the Trojan horse opened up, and I was stunned a little. Seriously, one of my favorite moments in a good while. It was a better plot twist than any movie I've ever seen, and many times as impactful
Brilliant! Probably the best hour I have ever spent on KZhead.
The best presentation of Quantum Mechanics that I have seen so far. Thank you for posting!
Sean Carroll is such an excellent speaker. I enjoy all of his lectures.
Such a humble guy, and such a gifted lecturer. Who would think he was the one sent forth on this earth to shake the foundations of modern physics? He didn't invent Many Worlds or QFT, but he's the one putting the pieces together in a way that makes sense, and he's rattling the cages of the complacent. What a gift to science!
In other words, he is selling horse manure and you bought it. ;-)
Fantastic!! First lecture of Sean’s I have ever seen. Enjoyed all of it… just so easy to follow and fun to watch. Outstanding job all all around. Bravo!
The book's good too :)
This was my first lecture of his aswell and also my first quantum mechanics lecture i've seen It's one of my favorite fields I'm considering being a scientist I'm only 14 (Highschool freshman) what i like is that it was broken down so my tiny brain can better understand
@@robfenwitch7403 Whats the name of the book and where can i get it
@@Broomful It's called "Something Deeply Hidden:" I have it on Audible audiobook (read by theauthor". It's available on Amazon (paper and Kindle) and I'm sure in many other good retailers :)
@@Broomful I tried to reply but now I can't see it... The book is called "Something Deeply Hidden:" It's certainly on Amazon and Audible in paper, kindle and audio format. I'm sure it's available generally.
What an amazing talk. Such a pleasure to watch it. I couldn’t enjoy more.
I would have enjoyed more, the truth. Ken Wheeler!
Sean, I love you bro. You keep on being you, and I'm going to keep on being me appreciating the heck out of who you are.
I enjoy this talk very much despite not understand almost all of it.
I did not understand it all, but I got enough to know I definitely do not know . Enjoyed this very much. Thank You
Very clearly described. As a layman engineer with an interest in physics, this is the clear description.
Are engineers lay people?
Except for gravity
@@philipmelton7182 Functionally, yes. I'm industrial and I can tell you I could not digest the mathematical descriptions of most of QM any better than most people.
That's what I hate from Engineers. They wasted 14 years of time & brain to just have a job in a factory, I'm not against engineering as they shaped the world we enjoy and take for granted, but like Sr Nikola Tesla, he was a keen learner of mathematics & physics. I believe, Engineers are the practical side of a physicist but too much engaged with COMMERCE. BTW I'm 17yrs old and took Science Stream at XI for Aerospace Engineering but I always want to go for research line but since they're paid less where they shouldn't be like that, need to have a capital to start my own with a renowned institute research on many parts of Physics, Chemistry, Information Tech. (of course) & Mathematics.
@@shubhankardasgupta4777 Indeed engineers learn to solve problems with an empirical process. While research scientists are or should be thinking about the cutting edge. You could be an engineer who continues to take an interest in the cutting edge and when you have gained experience contribute to ground breaking work. Do you follow Thunderfoot? He is a scientist, his KZhead often explore areas overlooked by other researchers, he also is skilled in glasswork and general problem solving. I get the impression he is often called upon by various researchers to solve some technical issue in their cutting edge machines. Sounds like he has the best of both worlds.
I took my car to a quantum mechanic. It’s currently in an indeterminate state, but worse - it’s being so in numerous other branches of the multiverse. I shudder to think of the sheer accumulated entropy of the eventual bill.
Amazing. Now I'm inspired to re-read Ted Chiang's short stories!
Question Sean, what if the fact that what we are observing when uranium decays are fields at their highest possible energy state, hence why they behave as if they are particles, but they are in fact the electron fields moving through space and are merely compressed by the energy state?
Great lecture. Love your enthusiasm. Of course the inability of the current theories to encompass what we think we know about the universe attests to the inadequacy of these theories. Good luck with trying to sort this all out.
Thank you. I took undergraduate and graduate classes in quantum mechanics and NO ONE ever explained it as succinctly as you have.
Nice to hear a talk by Roger Penrose, exactly on this same topic covering everything that Mr. Sean Carroll saying !
sean carroll...best we have today. the alan watts of physics!! as always, great post royal institution!!!
Couldn't of worded better myself
@@4toppingpizzayacaant72 A combination with xtra cheese please 😋
@@whirledpeas3477 lol.
This is literally the best talk for understanding quantum mechanics. Such a big fan of Dr. Sean
@Dirk Knight please elaborate and if possible direct me to sources that say something else
@Dirk Knight yea but in context of understanding what quantum is all about this is great. Again though you haven't told me what he is saying that is wrong or any other opposing opinions, feel free to post another link or just a source i can look into
@Meloveulongtime really? what kind of person has bad rep on youtube lol
This is a superb presentation. Sean Carroll is a master of making these subjects entertaining and accessible.
I have been asking this question of the Multi-Worlds interpretation for sometime without someone answering to my satisfaction: Why does (the reason(s) that causes) an event split and why does a thing becomes many versions of itself?
His voice is so amazing; I literally am hearing every word clearly.
Me too and I am half deaf.
this lecture has finally helped me start thinking of the universe as a wave function. no particles but waves.
Nope. Everything has duality of wave and particle thats what quantum mechanics tells.
@@danyeol1 I stand corrected happily with this duality lol
Brilliant! Thank you for lifting my incomprehension of Quantum Physics to a much higher level. I do like the fact that you take inconsistencies between theory and experiment seriously and would like to suggest that better experiments will be needed at least as urgently as new theories!
Which inconsistencies are you talking about?
it doesn't take a genius to know every choice we make affects our reality. However it does take one to explain why. Thank you for making me get it Sean Carrol.
Thank you for this fantastic lecture! I have listened to everything KZhead has to say about Quantum Mechanics but this was by far the easiest to comprehend for a lay person.. I still like the Copenhagen Interpretation the most.
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Kindly send me : The Copenhagen Interpretations , as had been description as being most easy to understand previously Thanks
German series Dark brought me here to this video as I am trying to figure it out better. Amazing video.
The speaker is phenomenal. What a gift to be brilliant and be able to speak so well
Such a beautiful theory and explanation, the harmony of an idea such as entanglement truly gives me goose-bumps. There is gold in the hills of this frontier, so I am confident that many will come to explore, map, and dig.
A great speaker to explain in reasonable terms to a person who at least has the basic knowledge, and not a scientist! 👍
one of the best channels. thank you.
Well thank you for sharing your experience.
The best lecture about QM I hv ever found on utube... 👍👍👍
"'It's just a jump to the left."
And then a step to the righ-igh-ight.
time warp anyone?
Let's do it again.
And on a different universe this comment says: "It's just a jump to the right."
@@samcarter8828 and where is the universe in that he says it's the "other left"? :)
I'm a simple man... I see Sean Carrol... I click "like"
Not Carroll? Interesting.
Thank you for the explanation of superposition along with the many-world's and "thickness" of probabilistic being known as existence. Throughout the discussion of gravity, I keep on wondering nearness -- I wonder what types of space we are thinking Euclidean or space with donuts and coffee cups, or even more holes. And, then, are holes modes? Alas, such fun useful things which will only be useful once we figure them out better or just use them more. Keep good records and keep planning experiments. Look forward to hearing more. I suppose I might find out more about space if I bought the speaker's book; along with reading it. :)
love this lecture .i did not understand fully but i enjoy
Sean Carroll is arguably my favourite physicist. So nice to listen to.
Him and brian greene ❤️