I watched the MIT course in high school and it is really worth the time. It is actually what got me interested in quantum mechanics. Now I am a second year physics student and from time to time I make sure that whatever I am learning, I can teach others in the simplest words possible. As I am taking new courses, I realize that not everything can be explained in simple words. But people like you amaze me. It takes immense understanding and talent to teach people as effectively as you do. Kudos to you! :)
This explanation mixes electron orbital with polarized photons, adds in a touch of fictional hardness and color, and finally throws in sine waves for good measure. It makes an attempt but is a total mess and I am not sure it is helpful.
this is the BEST explanation of the quantum superposition and uncertainty principle ever. PERIOD. Much thanks for this straightforward and simple explanation.
I really like watching science videos that are correct. I study physics and work at a local university and oh boy I really enjoy your videos as you explain stuff without dumbing it down or making it wrong.
It's about the situation when you try to put USB cable into USB port and it doesn't fit, so you turn it 180 degrees and it still doesn't fit, so you repeat the operation till you finally come up with an idea to look at it to be sure which orientation is correct.
Person in my class with the guts to say what we all wanted to: "I don't think I understand this or really comprehend what's going on. I feel like I'm just going through the motions and getting better at solving the related equations" Quantum Mechanics Prof: "Nobody understands or comprehends what's going on. We just get better at going through the motions and solving the equations".... continues lecture without missing a beat.
I believe QM to be a pile of bull. It's like saying God created the the world in 7 days and if you ask how he could possibly do that the answer is "cause he is special like that". Doesn't make logical sense but some kind of quantum magic is happening. And i think if people believe the answers can't be known as i have often heard they will not be looking for them. Or atleast way less motivated to do so.
And it shuts down ideas. When i was around 12 or 13 i told my physics teacher that magnetism and gravity seem to me like 2 sides of the same coin. He kind of laughed at me (not really but the qay he said it felt condescending) and told me that they are 2 completely different things but he couldn't really explain either.
@Tyler Learning false facts is worse than learning nothing at all imo. What is the point in learning QM when it is fundamentally flawed ? When you say "taught" i hear "indoctrinate". If you talk and than in the end say "this could be all wrong it's just our assumptions we agreed on" i don't care what you have to say. That's not science. I care about claims (statements of facts) and not opinions. If you identify with your believes (also the believe that QM is correct) the vast majority of people won't ask questions that could disprove their believes. Causes cognitive dissonance. So once someone entered into the quantum cult he won't ask if magnetism and gravity are related because they KNOW they are 2 seperate forces. Gravity is gravity and magnetism is part of electro magnetic forces. Einstein not understanding light saying "neither particle nor wave explains light but together they do" was such a brainfart but for some reason everybody jumped on board with it and the theories it gave birth to.
@@wlan-kabel2749 For math to decribe an idea and be right that idea doesn't have to be correct. Nor do we have to understand it. I can give you the math for egg boiling and how long of a boiling time will give you how hard of an egg. For the explanation i could make up some bs as long as i can wrap the math arround it. So that math is correct doesn't prove the idea of QM nor does the fact that we have technology.
I thought you were going to show the even cooler thing you can do with polarising filters; if you get two of them at 90 degrees to each other then no light gets through, yet if you put a third one in between at 45 degrees then all of a sudden light can pass through all of them
@@Hallowed_Ground If it's polarised vertically, and you flatten it down horizontally, it becomes nothing. But, if you flatten it diagonally before you flatten it horizontally, it's still there
Question: if an electron goes through two consecutive hardness boxes and is found to be hard on the first box, is it a 100% chance that it'll be hard on the second box? Or does the first interaction meddle with the electrons state and change the probability to 50% again?
@@TheActionLab Interesting. So when the first and second boxes are different, for example, color then hardness, what is special about the hardness interaction that allows for another color change?
It is the measurement of color that causes the change. It’s called the measurement dilemma. No matter what, when you measure things on a quantum level you inevitably cause changes to occurs. In the case color and hardness are actually spin of an electron in the y and x axis. They cannot be both known simultaneously. If you measure one, then you now know nothing (50/50) about the other
if we just leave electrons alone, they do all sorts of work for us (electricity, etc),. But as soon as start asking them "oh hey how are you?" and "what'd you do last weekend" they literally exit reality. Sounds like me on a Friday night.
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"The only time one specific elementary particle is not in super position is exactly when you're measuring it. As soon as it leaves your measurement device you have no idea what position it's in" You know, this is a pretty solid argument for simulation theory. Elementary particles not being "rendered" or "watched/measured" don't need a position to be in, because they're not in "sight", or "rendered". This is the same principle we use to optimize games and save computational power. Amazing video!
The counterargument to this is that the universe still needs to know the wave function even whent he particle isn't "rendered", and the wave function requires far more computational power than simple locational coordinates, spin coordinates, etc. Furthermore, most matter spends most of its time being "rendered" because most of it is entangled with other things.
When he said in your chemistry class... I finally understood everything, what is superposition and what are the orbitals, and the shells of an atom. The next time any of my friends ask a doubt about superposition I will show them this video.😊
10:40 - *_"And then_** it's when it has to choose its final state of what polarization it is".* ...What if you put a third polarizer _after_ that? Will it not also block light depending on its angle? Unfortunately I don't have 3 polarizers at hand to experiment placing two of them at 45 degrees passing some 50% of the light and then placing a third one at various angles to see what happens. If anyone does have 3 polarizers at hand and would experiment, that would be cool. But I do have two polarizers and remembered that the light coming off of the LCD monitor is polarized, so I played with it - and found the weirdest effect: 1. Place a polarizer near your eye and orient it such that the LCD screen turns "black". 2. Keeping the filter near your eye and maintaining that orientation (black screen), put the second polarizer _between_ that first one and the LCD and rotate it. There will be a position where it will UNDO the blocking of that first polarizer, i.e, you will see a black LCD monitor screen as expected, but with the monitor image brightly passing _only_ through that second polarizer, in a funny "round crop" kind of effect. Not sure why that happens, but sure was unexpected.
First of al,l thank you for doing something no other teacher I've seen do when talking about the hard/soft black/white boxes. They always talk about the percentages 0/100 percent or 50 percent. But never the actual numbers of how many particles you are starting and ending with. That actually helped me understand this a little more than previous videos have.
Low key could he be? We don’t know exactly where he is so is he anywhere and nowhere until someone confirms he is somewhere? Or maybe that doesn’t work bc he knows where he is. Interesting...
My teacher said that when we measure the position of an electron (we throw photons at the electron to measure it ) the photons change the velocity of the electron because they have some momentum so we cannot accurately measure both position and velocity at the same time.
Are we also certain that it just doesn't stop moving? I mean, if you continuously measure something that is never in the same state of position, it just means it is continuously moving. Of course if you measure something always moving or twisting around, you will never get the same position. All you could really calculate is the area the thing you are measuring moves in. Perhaps this is more so just not understanding that elemental particles move completely randomly within their area and that makes it impossible to measure. It isn't as though they are like the orbits of planets which are predictable and easy to calculate. It isn't that they aren't anywhere nor nowhere, it is just that tracking the position of a particle that moves completely randomly cannot be done.
Almost fifteen years of recreational fascination with quantum mechanics and this guy explains the uncertainty principle and superposition clearer than anything else I've seen or read.
Heisenberg told us that we cannot measure two things simultaneously. A scientist shows us the path to light from darkness, while look at this man; he just threw us into darkness...
if two electrons in wavelength forms clash with each other that means measuring one electron will cause you to automatically measure the second. It is a pretty fucked up theory.
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@The Action Lab I'm a current college student in Geoscience and you are my religion if such a thing exists. When I have a term that I just don't know where they got it from and what it really means... Action Lab to the rescue. This is really helpful, thank you.
The USB port analogy is always the best one for this theory! The first time I heard it, I blew beer through my nose! The understanding became perfectly clear!
Actually, if it’s 50/50 every time, and the electrons can change color and hardness as proven by sending the black electrons through the color box the second time, it would just mean that something affects the electrons that’s unrelated, like the polarity of a magnet - positive and negative inside the nucleus that determines you can’t have more than 50% of white/black hard/soft electrons in each location at any time. So what you’ve actually measured in the boxes are their space, not their ability to sort color and hardness, that affects the color and hardness. If the boxes always get a 50\50% result, it’s possible that the electron coming before the next one leaves some form of energy we need to measure better that lets the next electron know it needs to be the opposite of the one coming after or an accumulated mass of energy makes sure to stabilize itself after an x amount of electrons coming into it randomly. That just means we don’t know how to measure the right matter/energy. That’s all.
me: going to look at the action lab to learn new things. The Action lab: if it's not here, not there, not nowhere, and not everywhere. tho the pov was beautiful. lot of love.
Back in the 1990s, I was in a work related superposition, first as chemisrty bench lab tech, secondly the state licensed OHSA mandated wastewater operator grade 3-industrial, and thirdly, a field tech to install, operate, calibrate, redesign / reengineer and repair our system's use in the field by our customers . Tough to do all three simultaneously. So I got a raise and promotion to field engineer and operator, with a 20% raise. Yay!
So, basically: superposition means things don't have a set state until observed/interacted with, in which case it enters a set state until ignored again. Am I correct?
Does that mean they’re constantly spinning at such high of a speed it’s impossible to tell that they are, that way it can lock on to whatever position you make them go?
If they were really spinning, in what direction would they spin ? If you’d look at them from the opposite side then they would spin in the other direction. Maybe the name “spin” isn’t an ideal choice.
So the way you described super-position is as a statistical function of not knowing the state of an object that we know has a state. However, that doesn't mean that the object is in an indeterminate state, it simply means you don't have a model that can accurately describe its movement. In your theoretical example, you start out by saying that the contents of the box doesn't matter to us, that we are simply examining outputs to understand how the box works. But then we end up with two counter-intuitive results in the 3 box experiments. One where it seems like the output of the color box was changed by the hardness box, and one where it seems like the combination of the two outputs of the hardness box rectifies the color back to the output of the color box. This phenomenon suggests that we don't know enough about how the boxes work internally to confirm that they are not affecting (changing) the state of particles coming through, even though you have assumed that they are only measuring. If I had to take a guess using logic (I'm a software engineer, so I work with theoretical logic to find software bugs on the regular), I would say the measurement of those boxes are actually splitting a component of a single entity and then redirecting them together (combining them) puts the components back together. Much like white light is actually a sum of red, green, and blue components. Or like a vector can be described by its component cartesian coordinates (x, y, z, etc.) This is apparent in your real-world experiment with polarizing filters. Though I'm a little bit disappointed that you didn't show the whole experiment which takes 3 lenses to complete. The 3 lens experiment shows that light can pass through the third one in a 0-45-90 configuration, even though it seems like light doesn't pass through the second one in a 0-90 configuration. This shows that the light is somehow being changed by the lenses, not just filtered, as we might assume. And if we take the understanding that you presented in a different episode that light slows down in various mediums because it is being absorbed and then released, or that light can be bent by the difference of two mediums. This suggests that light interacts and is changed by the molecules it comes in contact with. Then I would guess that the spin component of photons passing through the polarizing lenses doesn't just filter by the component, but actually shifts near component values to the angle of the lens. Am I missing anything?
It's because those are *probability* clouds. So, the chance of finding an electron WITHIN the cloud is high. OUTSIDE the cloud, there's still a probability, it's just extremely small. So small we ignore it. We visualize the probability distribution as a "cloud" that captures the shape and size of where all reasonable values would happen, but there does exist a minute probability for the electron to exist anywhere technically.
The elétrons of any given atom might actually be anywhere in the universe, but it gets less likely the farther away it is. But anywhere out of the so called orbital is already very very unlikely
This helps me understand what living out of time will look like. I'm currently writing my senior thesis on the flexible nature of reality, and totally rabbit trailing... but boy is this fun!!! I suppose the Great I AM lives in this state all the time?
Heisenberg is my favorite theory 😄"Measurement effects variable under measurement" , this is what Heisenberg said. To measure position very accurate, you have to use very high frequency wave, and that high frequency photons transfer some kind of momentum to that electron and change its state, and vise versa, so that boxes actually change hardness when very precisely measure color, and change color when very precisely measure hardness.
I understand QM 🤦🏻♂️ and it’s easy. It’s called STOP FOLLOWING WHATEVER PHYSICISTS SAY. They almost NEVER tell you amidst all this fairytale that they create that it’s all just a stupid philosophical interpretation called the Copenhagen Interpretation. I very very very rarely hear anyone discuss these fairytale ideas of probability or particle being everywhere without them first mentioning those ideas are just philosophical and not concrete science. Google it, really.! “Copenhagen interpretation”.
The conditions of the Schroedinger’s Cat thought experiment remain exactly the same but for the poison in the vile which would be replaced with an acid, the fumes of which would still be lethal to the cat, and a mechanism on the floor of the box which were the cat to lie/fall down for having died from the acid fumes, would cause the vile to tip over. If broken, its contents would spill onto the floor of the box and eat through to the outside. In this then, there would be no observer opening the box but rather a chain of interdependent, deterministic events which would at their end, in effect, be “reaching out” to the observer after the fact. In other words, the acid leaking from the box would only be possible were the cat dead and only dead. No dead cat, no leaking acid, no odor to alarm the observer that he might turn to see. To illuminate further, that necessary for the Schroedinger version of this scheme is that there be no consequence of events of the cat’s state as either alive or dead or even potentially one or the other. The cat’s state as alive or dead is the end of the sequence of events contained within the box. In my version in which the cat’s state is nested within a line of other deterministic events, those subsequent to the cat’s state cannot be realized materially unless the cat were dead and only dead. The observer would not have looked to see the acid on the ground at all but for the process having in a sense “reached out” to alert him to its presence (the odor of the acid). If, as might be claimed that his observation of the dripping acid would cause the wave form to collapse and the condition of the acid dripping to manifest then how could it have been manifest already that it might capture his attention that he might turn to observe it to then cause the wave form to collapse so that it could be dripping to alert him which it was and had to be in the first place? This argument makes no sense and defies the same brand or current of logic by which the experiment was initially defined. Here the acid on the ground (the cat being dead) is the cause of the observation and not the effect as the state of the cat in the box (Schroedinger’s version) after it is opened that the cat might be observed. Additionally, it might be claimed that during the time the acid was eating through the bottom of the box that the cat would be in superposition and dead and alive at once and that the subsequent hole created by the acid would cause the wave form to collapse and the cat to then be dead or alive. However, this would then demonstrate that the original proposition as per Schroedinger was in error in the manner those of the Copenhagen school accepted it as a means of understanding superposition (of composite entities). It should be clear that there could not be the acid on the ground “and” the acid not having eaten through the box in the same manner that the hammer in the box in the original Schroedinger version had both fallen to break the vile and not. I would think that there is no reason to expound on that understanding. As stated above, the means by which the wave form would collapse in the original version of the thought experiment was solely that the box was opened and the cat observed. This other claim then that the wave form would collapse merely because a hole was burned into the bottom of the box by the acid such that it could escape but insufficient for the observer to see the cat inside via this hole could not be true without contradicting the original understanding. It cannot be both. Were the experiment to take place, rather than in a box, under an open bottom dome which blocked the observation of the cat until it was lifted, would the cat be in superposition? Resolving this would answer the questions posed above. If observation is required to collapse the wave form then anyone trying to refute my scenario must compose some work-around this possible logical contradiction.
I have a question! I am a 15 year old boy watching your videos from months and now you gave me the certificate of quantum physicst. So, can I get a job now?
This is one rare case where a 14-min video should have been longer. I wish you'd continue and do the second "mind-blow", which is when you add a third polarized lens as a "quantum eraser" and *more* light comes through the third lens!
Thank you for the demonstration and explanation. It was explained in such a manner that someone like me who don’t have a bg in quantum mechanics can understand…the visuals helped a lot too…
I watched the MIT course in high school and it is really worth the time. It is actually what got me interested in quantum mechanics. Now I am a second year physics student and from time to time I make sure that whatever I am learning, I can teach others in the simplest words possible. As I am taking new courses, I realize that not everything can be explained in simple words. But people like you amaze me. It takes immense understanding and talent to teach people as effectively as you do. Kudos to you! :)
Yep, you can only be sure you understand a concept if you can explain it to someone else! :)
Quantum mechanics is something any 8th grader can learn off of Google, etc.
Lol. It is great fun to learn in my free time.
@@crepe-enjoyer r/verysmart
Not trying to claim I'm smart.
I actually wanted to point out that even idiots can learn that stuff.
@@crepe-enjoyer I agree, but if that's so how do we define intelligence
My last 5% battery for this vid
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I feel like that its not where...but something else
Or Finland
INTERESTING AS THEY SAY AUSTRALIA AND FINLAND DO NOT EXIST -- I TELL'M NO THOSE PLACES ARE IN SUPERPOSITION.
Discrimination.
*laughs in New Zealand not being on world map*
The Action Lab not only teaches us science, it also teaches professors how to teach science
That is sooo true!
Right maybe I would have learned something if I watched RUclips instead of go to elementary school
yea except this explanation is taken directly from a college professor's class.
i forget the name of it, but it's an hour long and completely awesome
This explanation mixes electron orbital with polarized photons, adds in a touch of fictional hardness and color, and finally throws in sine waves for good measure. It makes an attempt but is a total mess and I am not sure it is helpful.
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this is the BEST explanation of the quantum superposition and uncertainty principle ever. PERIOD. Much thanks for this straightforward and simple explanation.
I have so much respect for quantum physicist..
me too
So do I bro
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I really like watching science videos that are correct. I study physics and work at a local university and oh boy I really enjoy your videos as you explain stuff without dumbing it down or making it wrong.
"Science video's that are correct"
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USB ports explained.
haahahadahaha
It's about the situation when you try to put USB cable into USB port and it doesn't fit, so you turn it 180 degrees and it still doesn't fit, so you repeat the operation till you finally come up with an idea to look at it to be sure which orientation is correct.
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Person in my class with the guts to say what we all wanted to: "I don't think I understand this or really comprehend what's going on. I feel like I'm just going through the motions and getting better at solving the related equations"
Quantum Mechanics Prof: "Nobody understands or comprehends what's going on. We just get better at going through the motions and solving the equations".... continues lecture without missing a beat.
I believe QM to be a pile of bull.
It's like saying God created the the world in 7 days and if you ask how he could possibly do that the answer is "cause he is special like that". Doesn't make logical sense but some kind of quantum magic is happening.
And i think if people believe the answers can't be known as i have often heard they will not be looking for them. Or atleast way less motivated to do so.
And it shuts down ideas.
When i was around 12 or 13 i told my physics teacher that magnetism and gravity seem to me like 2 sides of the same coin. He kind of laughed at me (not really but the qay he said it felt condescending) and told me that they are 2 completely different things but he couldn't really explain either.
Kevin König The only reason why anyone believes in QM is because the math is right.
With god not so much.
@Tyler
Learning false facts is worse than learning nothing at all imo.
What is the point in learning QM when it is fundamentally flawed ?
When you say "taught" i hear "indoctrinate". If you talk and than in the end say "this could be all wrong it's just our assumptions we agreed on" i don't care what you have to say. That's not science. I care about claims
(statements of facts) and not opinions.
If you identify with your believes (also the believe that QM is correct) the vast majority of people won't ask questions that could disprove their believes. Causes cognitive dissonance. So once someone entered into the quantum cult he won't ask if magnetism and gravity are related because they KNOW they are 2 seperate forces. Gravity is gravity and magnetism is part of electro magnetic forces.
Einstein not understanding light saying "neither particle nor wave explains light but together they do" was such a brainfart but for some reason everybody jumped on board with it and the theories it gave birth to.
@@wlan-kabel2749
For math to decribe an idea and be right that idea doesn't have to be correct.
Nor do we have to understand it.
I can give you the math for egg boiling and how long of a boiling time will give you how hard of an egg. For the explanation i could make up some bs as long as i can wrap the math arround it.
So that math is correct doesn't prove the idea of QM nor does the fact that we have technology.
I thought you were going to show the even cooler thing you can do with polarising filters; if you get two of them at 90 degrees to each other then no light gets through, yet if you put a third one in between at 45 degrees then all of a sudden light can pass through all of them
How is that possible?
Because science
Dat Mustach try again? Maybe this time in English?
Corbin its explained in this video
Basically, its superposition and it resets everytime?(maybe im not sure)
ruclips.net/video/zcqZHYo7ONs/видео.html
@@Hallowed_Ground If it's polarised vertically, and you flatten it down horizontally, it becomes nothing. But, if you flatten it diagonally before you flatten it horizontally, it's still there
Question: if an electron goes through two consecutive hardness boxes and is found to be hard on the first box, is it a 100% chance that it'll be hard on the second box? Or does the first interaction meddle with the electrons state and change the probability to 50% again?
If it goes through a hardness box and is found to be hard it is 100% chance to be found hard after that as long as it doesn’t go through a color box.
@@TheActionLab Interesting. So when the first and second boxes are different, for example, color then hardness, what is special about the hardness interaction that allows for another color change?
It is the measurement of color that causes the change. It’s called the measurement dilemma. No matter what, when you measure things on a quantum level you inevitably cause changes to occurs. In the case color and hardness are actually spin of an electron in the y and x axis. They cannot be both known simultaneously. If you measure one, then you now know nothing (50/50) about the other
@@TheActionLab that make sense. Thanks!
*Two big brain guys talking right here*
*_I am in a Superposition_*
_weird flex, but okay_
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0:17 someone make this a GIF ASAP
that one is fake, clearly lacks the 144p resolution lol
Lol, we know thats fake..
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if we just leave electrons alone, they do all sorts of work for us (electricity, etc),. But as soon as start asking them "oh hey how are you?" and "what'd you do last weekend" they literally exit reality.
Sounds like me on a Friday night.
Wow, this was by far the best explanation of quantum superposition i've come across on RUclips.
You are a great teacher.
You really understod this?? My brain be like 0:11
I agree
0:04 me explaining how i lost my keys
And Ur parents reaction 0:11😉
And Ur parents reaction 0:11😉
You should write I explained
@@mahdihammoud7338 srsly?
@@average312 wierd flex but ok
Whatever that firework is, it was the weirdest thing I've witnessed in my life
The phrase "mind blown" is what's referenced
Yeah
It's a reference to a bit in a Tim and Eric episode:
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0:11 when 2nd graders read a 6th grader's book
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I’d rather say : when 5th graders read a 10th graders book
I won't, I already knew 11th when I was 1st
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@@vladislavcaptari2131 thanks now we have internet and all facilities
Quantum Physics is like students doing homework. You can start the homework anytime...until you have to hand it in. :P
0:11 this should be used for meme 😂😂
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If you haven't seen it, it's from Tim an Eric's awesome show from adult swim. Super funny and weird
l've been there! This is mind boggling! loved the fireworks at the beginning Lol.
lol yes, so true!
Legends says if you're early and you say His name 3 times He will like your comment and respond.
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The Action Lab Damn,that was fast.
@@TheActionLab I tried the legend. It hasn't worked so far
iiDogeKingii - Roblox and more random letters Well,you gotta be very early.
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"The only time one specific elementary particle is not in super position is exactly when you're measuring it. As soon as it leaves your measurement device you have no idea what position it's in"
You know, this is a pretty solid argument for simulation theory. Elementary particles not being "rendered" or "watched/measured" don't need a position to be in, because they're not in "sight", or "rendered". This is the same principle we use to optimize games and save computational power. Amazing video!
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Very good thought. I think your closer to the truth than most realize
The counterargument to this is that the universe still needs to know the wave function even whent he particle isn't "rendered", and the wave function requires far more computational power than simple locational coordinates, spin coordinates, etc. Furthermore, most matter spends most of its time being "rendered" because most of it is entangled with other things.
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When he said in your chemistry class... I finally understood everything, what is superposition and what are the orbitals, and the shells of an atom. The next time any of my friends ask a doubt about superposition I will show them this video.😊
0:04 explaining to my mom where my good grades went
If you watched the whole video then you won't need those good grades, you'll be a certified quantum physicist.
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0:11 to 0:24, yeah, happy Diwali to you too.... 🙃
Lol, Happy Diwali brother!
Happy Diwali bro
Lol we Indians do watch some science lol.
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10:40 - *_"And then_** it's when it has to choose its final state of what polarization it is".*
...What if you put a third polarizer _after_ that? Will it not also block light depending on its angle? Unfortunately I don't have 3 polarizers at hand to experiment placing two of them at 45 degrees passing some 50% of the light and then placing a third one at various angles to see what happens. If anyone does have 3 polarizers at hand and would experiment, that would be cool.
But I do have two polarizers and remembered that the light coming off of the LCD monitor is polarized, so I played with it - and found the weirdest effect:
1. Place a polarizer near your eye and orient it such that the LCD screen turns "black".
2. Keeping the filter near your eye and maintaining that orientation (black screen), put the second polarizer _between_ that first one and the LCD and rotate it. There will be a position where it will UNDO the blocking of that first polarizer, i.e, you will see a black LCD monitor screen as expected, but with the monitor image brightly passing _only_ through that second polarizer, in a funny "round crop" kind of effect.
Not sure why that happens, but sure was unexpected.
First of al,l thank you for doing something no other teacher I've seen do when talking about the hard/soft black/white boxes. They always talk about the percentages 0/100 percent or 50 percent. But never the actual numbers of how many particles you are starting and ending with. That actually helped me understand this a little more than previous videos have.
It’s called friendzone
lmfo
I'm currently in a superposition
Random RimRock // TripleR what? How?
Kayla Gordineer He hasn’t been measured.
Low key could he be? We don’t know exactly where he is so is he anywhere and nowhere until someone confirms he is somewhere? Or maybe that doesn’t work bc he knows where he is. Interesting...
Action lab
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Will it work again?
Stop! I’m trying to nap
Thx man u too great
@@TheActionLab Good one 😂
“That’s how EVERY it gets.”
i remember that from history of the entire world i guess but it's clean(for schools)
Nice Bill wurtz reference
How did this happen?
_you could make a religion out of this_
Are we absolutely certain that by “measuring” the electron that we’re not changing it in some way?
The whole point of the video is that measuring the electron changes it
My teacher said that when we measure the position of an electron (we throw photons at the electron to measure it ) the photons change the velocity of the electron because they have some momentum so we cannot accurately measure both position and velocity at the same time.
Are we also certain that it just doesn't stop moving? I mean, if you continuously measure something that is never in the same state of position, it just means it is continuously moving. Of course if you measure something always moving or twisting around, you will never get the same position. All you could really calculate is the area the thing you are measuring moves in.
Perhaps this is more so just not understanding that elemental particles move completely randomly within their area and that makes it impossible to measure. It isn't as though they are like the orbits of planets which are predictable and easy to calculate. It isn't that they aren't anywhere nor nowhere, it is just that tracking the position of a particle that moves completely randomly cannot be done.
I'm a qualified quantum physicist.
Yeah, me too. Let's work on theory of everything then? :D
@@OkkaOk lel
I’m a ham sandwich.
I'm just an angry black man
@@OkkaOk 42
why did i watch this right after i woke up expecting i'm gonna understand what this video is about lol
I don’t know why but this video just made me oddly happy 😄 You explain physics really well and it feels awesome to understand it. Thanks! :)
Adult: “what do you want to be when you grow up”
Kid: “I don’t know”
Narrator: “The kid is in super position.”
Almost fifteen years of recreational fascination with quantum mechanics and this guy explains the uncertainty principle and superposition clearer than anything else I've seen or read.
You were born to be an educator with how well you get it through 🙏🙏🙏🙏
14:09 I need to put that on my job application
Heisenberg told us that we cannot measure two things simultaneously.
A scientist shows us the path to light from darkness, while look at this man; he just threw us into darkness...
if two electrons in wavelength forms clash with each other that means measuring one electron will cause you to automatically measure the second. It is a pretty fucked up theory.
Seemed as if he were celebrating diwali (at the beginning of the vid)...with his mind....:)
I also felt the same.So much pollution
Holy Mother of God. This video suddenly makes superposition so clear in my mind. Earlier I thought it just means electron is everywhere.
The world now has 200K quantum scientists !
Wow
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To Anyone That Reads This!
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Thanks bro! :)
To you as well!
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*When you find the particle you want in a measurable position...*
“Oh hi Mark.”
Oh hey Johnny what's up?
Man, I can really appreciate your incorporation of memes when possible. I've learned much from you, Mr. Action Lab man!
One of the best explanations of superposition for a layman like me. Absolutely wonderful.
@The Action Lab I'm a current college student in Geoscience and you are my religion if such a thing exists. When I have a term that I just don't know where they got it from and what it really means... Action Lab to the rescue. This is really helpful, thank you.
1.7M, We've come a long way. You deserve everything you got and more!
Stay curious!!!
watching your videos makes me feel scientifically scientific
What are you doing here nigel
learning as much as I can from this madman so I can outmart the fat tomato
@@starsandcigz tell leon to upload more 😂😂
He just did ;)
this is absolutely incredible. so glad i found this channel! it’s crazy that you actually made quantum physics understandable
The USB port analogy is always the best one for this theory!
The first time I heard it, I blew beer through my nose!
The understanding became perfectly clear!
Actually, if it’s 50/50 every time, and the electrons can change color and hardness as proven by sending the black electrons through the color box the second time, it would just mean that something affects the electrons that’s unrelated, like the polarity of a magnet - positive and negative inside the nucleus that determines you can’t have more than 50% of white/black hard/soft electrons in each location at any time.
So what you’ve actually measured in the boxes are their space, not their ability to sort color and hardness, that affects the color and hardness.
If the boxes always get a 50\50% result, it’s possible that the electron coming before the next one leaves some form of energy we need to measure better that lets the next electron know it needs to be the opposite of the one coming after or an accumulated mass of energy makes sure to stabilize itself after an x amount of electrons coming into it randomly.
That just means we don’t know how to measure the right matter/energy. That’s all.
anwser to your question: It's in your kichten.... obviously
Kitchen*
Kitchen*
Behind the fridge!!
Food? If so... GIVE IT TO ME OR IM TAKING YOUR FRIDGE!!!
Easy... style="position: absolute;" solved! 🤔😜
Or even better, display: none;
Or, the best solution: superPosition.remove();
is this a computer coding joke? because I'm a physics student and I don't get this!! or I'm just a really bad physics student!!
@@iwishawesomeness5602 css joke and JavaScript joke. Webpage development
@@nitin-code-comedy oh thanks! For a minute there I started to doubt myself!
Or:
system.earth.hack = "true";
government.bank.account.moneyAmount = "9999999999";
0:13 happy diwali love from India 😂😂
@Rishi S. Happy diwali
Happy Diwali guys!
Happy death
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me: going to look at the action lab to learn new things.
The Action lab: if it's not here, not there, not nowhere, and not everywhere.
tho the pov was beautiful.
lot of love.
Back in the 1990s, I was in a work related superposition, first as chemisrty bench lab tech, secondly the state licensed OHSA mandated wastewater operator grade 3-industrial, and thirdly, a field tech to install, operate, calibrate, redesign / reengineer and repair our system's use in the field by our customers . Tough to do all three simultaneously. So I got a raise and promotion to field engineer and operator, with a 20% raise. Yay!
My damn electrons in my brain said “Holy Batman, this crap is deep, give me two more beers...”
RUclips gave me a notification that is 1 day late....
Pvvvvvwahhhhh! Pvvvvwahhhhh! * mind blows *
Didn't understand anything!
So, basically: superposition means things don't have a set state until observed/interacted with, in which case it enters a set state until ignored again. Am I correct?
14:08 WHOA, so now I’m a qualified quantum physicist and only eleven years old, because I managed to comprehend this. That made my day, Action Lab.
This is the one mf in class that reminds the teacher to give you homework😂
Does that mean they’re constantly spinning at such high of a speed it’s impossible to tell that they are, that way it can lock on to whatever position you make them go?
😵😵😵
Electrons aren’t spinning
If they were really spinning, in what direction would they spin ? If you’d look at them from the opposite side then they would spin in the other direction. Maybe the name “spin” isn’t an ideal choice.
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Superposition describes my stance on how I vote.
BCT Alicorn I feel you
Yeet
Question: If the photons are not comming through the second polarizer, when you keep the second polarizer at 90 degrees, where are they going?
They are bouncing off away from the polarizer instead of going through into your eye
So the way you described super-position is as a statistical function of not knowing the state of an object that we know has a state. However, that doesn't mean that the object is in an indeterminate state, it simply means you don't have a model that can accurately describe its movement.
In your theoretical example, you start out by saying that the contents of the box doesn't matter to us, that we are simply examining outputs to understand how the box works. But then we end up with two counter-intuitive results in the 3 box experiments. One where it seems like the output of the color box was changed by the hardness box, and one where it seems like the combination of the two outputs of the hardness box rectifies the color back to the output of the color box. This phenomenon suggests that we don't know enough about how the boxes work internally to confirm that they are not affecting (changing) the state of particles coming through, even though you have assumed that they are only measuring. If I had to take a guess using logic (I'm a software engineer, so I work with theoretical logic to find software bugs on the regular), I would say the measurement of those boxes are actually splitting a component of a single entity and then redirecting them together (combining them) puts the components back together. Much like white light is actually a sum of red, green, and blue components. Or like a vector can be described by its component cartesian coordinates (x, y, z, etc.)
This is apparent in your real-world experiment with polarizing filters. Though I'm a little bit disappointed that you didn't show the whole experiment which takes 3 lenses to complete. The 3 lens experiment shows that light can pass through the third one in a 0-45-90 configuration, even though it seems like light doesn't pass through the second one in a 0-90 configuration. This shows that the light is somehow being changed by the lenses, not just filtered, as we might assume. And if we take the understanding that you presented in a different episode that light slows down in various mediums because it is being absorbed and then released, or that light can be bent by the difference of two mediums. This suggests that light interacts and is changed by the molecules it comes in contact with. Then I would guess that the spin component of photons passing through the polarizing lenses doesn't just filter by the component, but actually shifts near component values to the angle of the lens.
Am I missing anything?
Omg I just learned the most important thing in my life. Why don’t they teach you this in school?
They taught the version about polarized light in my school.
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One more time, I guess
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13:30, you said we can "hardly" ever find it outside the marked area not "never".
Any reason?
It's because those are *probability* clouds. So, the chance of finding an electron WITHIN the cloud is high. OUTSIDE the cloud, there's still a probability, it's just extremely small. So small we ignore it.
We visualize the probability distribution as a "cloud" that captures the shape and size of where all reasonable values would happen, but there does exist a minute probability for the electron to exist anywhere technically.
You have very good ears dude
The elétrons of any given atom might actually be anywhere in the universe, but it gets less likely the farther away it is. But anywhere out of the so called orbital is already very very unlikely
I always vaguely understood the superposition concept but now I understand it much better! Thanks🙂
This helps me understand what living out of time will look like. I'm currently writing my senior thesis on the flexible nature of reality, and totally rabbit trailing... but boy is this fun!!! I suppose the Great I AM lives in this state all the time?
0:10 Those fireworks 🔥 FOREIGN VERSION OF "THAIN THAIN"
I have a question james,
Can we powderise water just like milk and other liquids?
freeze water then grind it.... there you go powderised
Oh yeah really!!👍👍, the powederising meanse making the substance solid state. Good one
@@pushkarkulkarni4861 i mean it's also sometimes called Snow
@@ryuguy032197 yeah yes, its snow
You cannot powderize it in the room temperature, only below 0°C
10:12 DIDN'T EXPECT THAT FROM HIM!!!
Heisenberg is my favorite theory 😄"Measurement effects variable under measurement" , this is what Heisenberg said.
To measure position very accurate, you have to use very high frequency wave, and that high frequency photons transfer some kind of momentum to that electron and change its state, and vise versa, so that boxes actually change hardness when very precisely measure color, and change color when very precisely measure hardness.
Love the Tim and Eric tribute with the mind exploding fireworks lol
Sir,this video is little confusing, please remake this one with a more enlarged and simplified tone.Hats off sir for your videos,they are outstanding.
I’m not sure but I think what he’s saying is that to achieve complete superposition you need use a bounce pad and hit Kevin the Cube
Are you sure it's not Bill the Sphere?
"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."
- Dr. Richard Feynman
That was something he said longe ago. We knows a lot more now.
I don’t understand this at all
I understand QM 🤦🏻♂️ and it’s easy. It’s called STOP FOLLOWING WHATEVER PHYSICISTS SAY. They almost NEVER tell you amidst all this fairytale that they create that it’s all just a stupid philosophical interpretation called the Copenhagen Interpretation. I very very very rarely hear anyone discuss these fairytale ideas of probability or particle being everywhere without them first mentioning those ideas are just philosophical and not concrete science.
Google it, really.! “Copenhagen interpretation”.
The conditions of the Schroedinger’s Cat thought experiment remain exactly the same but for the poison in the vile which would be replaced with an acid, the fumes of which would still be lethal to the cat, and a mechanism on the floor of the box which were the cat to lie/fall down for having died from the acid fumes, would cause the vile to tip over. If broken, its contents would spill onto the floor of the box and eat through to the outside. In this then, there would be no observer opening the box but rather a chain of interdependent, deterministic events which would at their end, in effect, be “reaching out” to the observer after the fact. In other words, the acid leaking from the box would only be possible were the cat dead and only dead. No dead cat, no leaking acid, no odor to alarm the observer that he might turn to see. To illuminate further, that necessary for the Schroedinger version of this scheme is that there be no consequence of events of the cat’s state as either alive or dead or even potentially one or the other. The cat’s state as alive or dead is the end of the sequence of events contained within the box. In my version in which the cat’s state is nested within a line of other deterministic events, those subsequent to the cat’s state cannot be realized materially unless the cat were dead and only dead. The observer would not have looked to see the acid on the ground at all but for the process having in a sense “reached out” to alert him to its presence (the odor of the acid). If, as might be claimed that his observation of the dripping acid would cause the wave form to collapse and the condition of the acid dripping to manifest then how could it have been manifest already that it might capture his attention that he might turn to observe it to then cause the wave form to collapse so that it could be dripping to alert him which it was and had to be in the first place? This argument makes no sense and defies the same brand or current of logic by which the experiment was initially defined. Here the acid on the ground (the cat being dead) is the cause of the observation and not the effect as the state of the cat in the box (Schroedinger’s version) after it is opened that the cat might be observed. Additionally, it might be claimed that during the time the acid was eating through the bottom of the box that the cat would be in superposition and dead and alive at once and that the subsequent hole created by the acid would cause the wave form to collapse and the cat to then be dead or alive. However, this would then demonstrate that the original proposition as per Schroedinger was in error in the manner those of the Copenhagen school accepted it as a means of understanding superposition (of composite entities). It should be clear that there could not be the acid on the ground “and” the acid not having eaten through the box in the same manner that the hammer in the box in the original Schroedinger version had both fallen to break the vile and not. I would think that there is no reason to expound on that understanding.
As stated above, the means by which the wave form would collapse in the original version of the thought experiment was solely that the box was opened and the cat observed. This other claim then that the wave form would collapse merely because a hole was burned into the bottom of the box by the acid such that it could escape but insufficient for the observer to see the cat inside via this hole could not be true without contradicting the original understanding. It cannot be both. Were the experiment to take place, rather than in a box, under an open bottom dome which blocked the observation of the cat until it was lifted, would the cat be in superposition? Resolving this would answer the questions posed above. If observation is required to collapse the wave form then anyone trying to refute my scenario must compose some work-around this possible logical contradiction.
that was actualy some of the best explanations ive seen on the topic
Legend says that if you are one hour late he wont heart.
Don’t you dare limit me
The fudge you hearted in a minute but thats against the legend.
@@heinzig5929 what 2 hours?
when you are 2 hours late
@@heinzig5929 i am 1 hour late you should compare the times of upload. And Whoooosh yourself
I have a question!
I am a 15 year old boy watching your videos from months and now you gave me the certificate of quantum physicst.
So, can I get a job now?
yes, you can now apply to the nearest McDonald and they will hire you right away
Or designing cardboard boxes...
ok, then lets together go to the nearest McDonald
@@rukna3775 Lol!
No you must need to become a *physicist* not ‘physicst’
*Vsause left the chat*
more like he has entered the chat lol
Hi vsauce Michael here
This is the best demonstration I've seen to explain superposition.
Qualified Quantum Physicist with expertise in polarization. Noiiicce. Just updated resume and forwarding it to CERN. Fingers crossed!
I tapped so quick it started but it didnt start
Then what did it do??? #newthemeforthevideo
Lol that was funny ask schrodinger lol
It's funny because all of the weirdness of superposition can be avoided if you consider both light and electrons are just waves
I believe that hardness and color refer to velocity and displacement according to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
velocity and position
Actually momentum and position
He says in the video: it refers to spin up/down, and spin left/right.
This is one rare case where a 14-min video should have been longer.
I wish you'd continue and do the second "mind-blow", which is when you add a third polarized lens as a "quantum eraser" and *more* light comes through the third lens!
Thank you for the demonstration and explanation. It was explained in such a manner that someone like me who don’t have a bg in quantum mechanics can understand…the visuals helped a lot too…
My suggestion for next video,
32000 lumen light Vs polariser (use vertical and horizontal polariser to stop all photons)
It would likely still blow out the camera because polarisers are by no means perfect.
What does this guy said gone over my head.
Happy Diwali To You Also (0:11)😹😹
Om Patel myself Devarsh Dave.
Same to you(over belated)
Finally I understand quantum physics. Thanks action lab
This concept is a bit confusing, but it's also quite interesting.