The Secrets of Quantum Physics (BBC4)

heckler73

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Yup... definitely worth watching. It's only up for 6 more days though. I imagine it'll be on YT soon enough.

The part about John Bell and the "hippie physicists" was particularly fascinating.
Who said dope and LSD hinders progress? :lol:
The first real QM experiments came from them!
It looks like part II is going to discuss "tunnelling" and some strange topic regarding evolution.
I'm not sure how QM fits in with the latter, but I'll be watching.
 

Moebius

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Yup... definitely worth watching. It's only up for 6 more days though. I imagine it'll be on YT soon enough.

The part about John Bell and the "hippie physicists" was particularly fascinating.
Who said dope and LSD hinders progress? :lol:
The first real QM experiments came from them!
It looks like part II is going to discuss "tunnelling" and some strange topic regarding evolution.
I'm not sure how QM fits in with the latter, but I'll be watching.
Seen them both ... Part 2 looks at examples of QM processes in the natural world. Like how QM tunneling is taking place in photosynthesis and is essential for helping the photon find the 'reaction center' in the most efficient manner, this is the area of the cell responsible for turning the suns energy into carbohydrates . It was OK.
 

heckler73

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Seen them both ... Part 2 looks at examples of QM processes in the natural world. Like how QM tunneling is taking place in photosynthesis and is essential for helping the photon find the 'reaction center' in the most efficient manner, this is the area of the cell responsible for turning the suns energy into carbohydrates . It was OK.
I haven't watched Part II , yet. I suppose I missed the BBC4 window, too.
Ahhh it's on YT :lol:

 

TBoneJack

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Would you like me to explain the difference between probability and the 'expectation' or 'expected' value of an event as it relates to statistical mathematics and why you cannot use the terms interchangeably?
No man, I was just prodding you a bit. Like I said in another post, I'm a wannabe-mathematician-turned-software-engineer. My BS is in math, but by the time I graduated I realized that I didn't have the talent to make a real difference in the field of mathematics. And computers were so fascinating, I got my grad degree in computer science. But I remember the days of studying prime numbers and how fascinated I was with them.
 

2Hearts

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Quantum mechanics is fast making way for pilot wave theory. After a hundred years peeps have got bored with Quantum mechanics being so mysterious and reverted back to obvious solutions.

You can freely google 'Pilot wave theory' and is easily shown in oil droplets on a liquid surface, experiments conducted in 2013/2014.

I use to support Qm but just got bored waiting for the theory of everything whilst others were making big leaps in better ideas to solve the same problems.
 

Moebius

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Quantum mechanics is fast making way for pilot wave theory. After a hundred years peeps have got bored with Quantum mechanics being so mysterious and reverted back to obvious solutions.

You can freely google 'Pilot wave theory' and is easily shown in oil droplets on a liquid surface, experiments conducted in 2013/2014.

I use to support Qm but just got bored waiting for the theory of everything whilst others were making big leaps in better ideas to solve the same problems.
I'll read up on this pilot-wave theory. Why not? :)
 

heckler73

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http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-new-quantum-reality/


This should start you off and dont blame me if you start thinking qm is a bit of a joke....

This doesn't make me poo-poo QM. I see QM more as a toolkit to comprehend that particular scale of the universe. What this 'pilot-wave' seems to hint at is the importance of fields and their perturbation in regards to explaining why the wave-nature of particles seems to occur.


:lol: I just searched the Uni database for PWT and guess what one of the first papers was.
Pilot Wave Theory and Financial Option Pricing (2005)... Those Wall St. geeks sure don't hesitate to jump on an idea, eh? :lol:


Anyway, very intriguing. And there's plenty of material out there to read. Thanks for the heads up.
 

heckler73

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Hmmm...Toward the end of the vid he was mentioning Relativistic QM. That is something I have yet to really tackle. But it sounded to me as if PWT and QM come back together under those conditions, or did I misinterpret him?
And what exactly was going on at the Random Number Generator? He said something about XOR logic...how is it applied to the info stream from Alice's coffee-covered scope?
(Watching again...)
I think I got it. The information (i.e. "light") from the T(U)/2 galaxy source is just used to generate a random bit which determines the filter orientation of Alice's detector. The info from her orientation will have a lag based on the distance to Bob, T(L), but what is it testing? Entanglement? Field Waves?
I'm still getting stuck at that point. I need to look at this Bell's Thm more carefully (Sec 12.2 of Griffiths) ;)


 

2Hearts

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Id love to explain all but havent the time, just giving you a heads up for whats really making waves.....
 
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