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  • The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and vice versa!

  • What is the music used in this video?

  • Okay, this is cool. Fuck you for making me take an exam. But this is cool.

  • amazing vid but why the creepy people at the start?

  • Crazy!!

  • ?? what? it the real explanation that particles are going into and out of existence? Those of you who know more, doesn't this get explained by dimension (going into other dimensions and returning)? Aren't quantum physicists known for their 13 dimensions?

  • Tommy likey. Tommy want wingy.

  • This is a great video

  • very interesting video thanks

  • Question... was this made with Garry's Mod?

  • whats with all the retarded mispronounciations?

  • Standing waves (nodes & anti-nodes) that represent a particle's "existence" within an atom could "exist" both above and below the quantal timeline of existence, so that time, like the wave, stands "still" within standing wave functions. Alas it also accounts for a space-time wave-continuity unleashing "spooky action at a distance". As mentioned, a wave takes ALL paths between two points, coalescing instanteously as a probablistic partial deriviative of time. Space time curvature distorts time.

  • So,,, "What is waving?" Ans.: Existence. Does this notion of existence implies a quantal unit of time?

  • Wow. First time I've actually found an answer to the question I've had for a long time now.

  • will it blend?

  • why is the equation waving around. I wanna see it lol

  • Thumbs up if ur here for chemistry hw... lol

  • This stuff makes me cry

  • All of this has classical explanations. We could discuss how photons decay, how suns create photonic crystals which magnify a few photons to look like uberzillions. We could discuss the magnetic monopole with its superconducting Hookean tail with the measurable elastic modulus and attached to either an oppositely charged virtual positron (a decayed proton) or another electron in a Cooper-pair. Picture the oscillating monotail making propogation waves in the particle soup o'quarks. ETC.

  • Yeah, the animation was weird but the Physics & presentation was accurate & interesting. Good stuff.

  • HOLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY CRAPPPPPPPPPPP.

    10 HOURS OF READING MY STUPID TEXTBOOK AND TALKING TO STUPID TA'S AND PROFESSORS TO TRY AND UNDERSTAND THE NONSENSE THEY WERE TALKING, AND IN 2 MINUTES THIS GUY EXPLAINED TO ME WHAT I WANTED TO KNOW

    NAMELY, WTFFFFFFFFFFFF DOES IT MEAN TO SAY "AN ELECTRON BEHAVES LIKE A WAVE AND NOT A PARTICLE"

    THANK YOU GOOD SIR

  • If you have told one lie, that makes you a liar. If you have stolen one thing, that makes you a thief. JESUS said; if you look at a person with lust, you commit adultery in your heart! Ever used GOD's name in vain; then you are a blasphemer and can't enter GOD's kingdom! Rev. 21v8 says; "All liars will have their part in the lake of fire!" The bible says; No thief or adulterer will inherit GOD's kingdom! You broke GOD's laws; but JESUS paid your fine! Repent, and trust the Savior!

  • @EXALTEDDIRT, Alright it looks like that nobody else wants to do it, so i will. Get out of here with your biblical nonsense, it bores people to tears. I mean come on man, it doesn't work. Just give it up. FUCK.

  • I think the the wave is caused by the vibration of the particle cause wave in the tissue of space

  • hahah how did he know? it DOES sound like a bunch of gobbly-gook!

  • quantum mechanics, the dreams stuff is made of!

    my head hurts now!

  • WTF?

  • if you get out of existence where do you go to? inexistence??? i think you cant go into and out of an abstract idea.. that shit is nice.... theory of the shitness of quantum physics

  • "if you claim to understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics" - Richard Feymann.

    Apparently, Richard Feymann has never heard of Chuck Norris.

  • This is the best principle ever discovered, Long Live Werner Heisenberg who coined Quantum Mechanics!

  • Excellent lesson on particle v. wave behavior - very enlightening!

  • I think that the start/introduction of a media text (e.g. this video) is crucial to grabbing the audiences attention, or in this situation, repel them. Luckily the distortion of mankind ends at 0:19

  • do you really need lame ass 3d characters, lame music and lame echo effects to explain something? it's pretty lame...

  • @avrilinblood Do you really super cool story to, bro?

  • I am software.

  • @nobrainQQ

    "I am software." Do not forget that much of what you are is stored in the physical structure of your brain. Neurons form new synnapses and extensions according to how they are currently used, programmed to try to maximize effectivity of data transmission. Much information is stored in activation loops between a number of individual brain cells. The hardware grows according to the activity of the software in certain areas of the brain, also called neuroplasticity.

  • @nobrainQQ

    So you are not just software, your hardware corresponds and is shaped by your software. Studies have shown that when learning how to juggle 3 or more balls a certain area of the brain physically grows in size, and this is not only true for young people but for seinors as well, as shown by a follow-up study! So you are not just software, there clearly is a physical component.

  • yea yea, that's the fun: trying to understand quantum mechanics you end up realizing that the matter itself is just information... so my "physical brain" IS software. From the biological point of view thats make sense too, cause this "growing" of the brain is computed by genetic information... so I am software. @kurtilein3

  • @nobrainQQ

    Difficult, very difficult. Your physical brain is hardware, but hardware that changes according to what it does. You could simulate and emulate the whole, putting that hardware on a software level, but in reality there are two obstacles: We do not know enough about the human brain to do it, and it would require OBSCENE processing power because all computers we have never change, or if they do its an error.

  • @nobrainQQ

    also, im studying quantum mechanics right now. The structures in our brain are too big and too hot for real quantum effects to influence it in a meaningful way. By natural selection, our neurons developed in such a way that quantum effects do NOT affect these systems. All neuronal structured are far above the quantum scales, and too complex and too hot and to ooften interacting with themselves for any quantum effects to take hold.

  • Ok, quantum mechanics don't affect tought. But it affect the matter of my body and of my brain. When I said "i am software" I was thinking about the nature of matter itself. Best physical explanations treats matter as information, and not as solid balls with some properties anymore... and that happens cause we want to know HOW this properties works. What do you think?

    @kurtilein3

  • @nobrainQQ

    I think it will not be long until scientists manage to create an artificial mind / an artifical consciousness inside a supercomputer. And then i dont know what happens, it may be very intelligent, but it wont have the neuroplasticity we have because the hardware it uses cannot change. Difficult. But maybe even the neuroplasticity could be modeled somehow, but i think it would require enourmous processing power.

  • @nobrainQQ

    also, when you train certain parts of your brain really hard, which causes them to grow, this is not determined by your genetic code. It is your decision and the following actions, when for example you start to practise the piano or juggling, that cause the changes, it is not genetically determined. Also you will not be able to pass this on to your children directly, you need to teach them. So its totally outside of quantum mechanics, also outside of genetics, but you can teach it.

  • Thanks for replying. The "part you can teach" can be analysed as memes. And it becomes a very disturbing idea if you accept that our thinking is determined by memetic laws. I really don't like it. But if we consider that all our decision comes "automatically" from available information, we look like a machine even more. But "like" is far away from "truth". Can humans create anything beyond: copying, mixing or use random information? @kurtilein3

  • Schrodinger didn't drink or smoke, except when he was drinking or smoking.

  • @gamesbok thats whats up haha. [schrodinger may have been here]

  • this is video is quite be marvelllous

  • micro cosmos explained, the macro cosmos works in a similar way.

  • But does it explain his Cat?

  • Thanks! I wanted a more in depth explanation of things being particles and waves after watching the naked science episode on parallel universes. Fascinating!!!

  • i still don't get it

  • How, Why?? This is bunch of bologna, with all due respect, You never get to the why's and how's just keep stumbling around like all the rest of the people in quantum mechanics....

  • sorry. this is absolute bullshit. nice video though.

  • @Samgurney88 Probably because you don't understand it?

  • Thanks. This is a helpful explanation of the duality. Awesome stuff.

  • Way to completely mispronounce de Broglie.

  • When you say existence is waving, are you talking about the wave function?

  • So are these "waves of existence" the building blocks of all things in string theory??

    If I'm right in thinking that, I'd be happy. =P But please tell me if I'm right or wrong.

  • what was the equation that erwin schrodinger wrote to describe the nature of the previously stated(in the video) ?

  • what was the equation that erwin schrodinger wrote to describe the nature of the previously stated(in the video) ?

  • Couldn't there be elements that aren't present on this planet, but in other parts of the universe. Would there atomic structure behave differently then the elements on this planet.

  • There are a number of statements that don't match my understanding of wave-particle duality.

    Waves describe the probability of finding a particle at a given location. Particles always behave like particles. We just can't know where the particle is. A wave may have multiple maxima, but particles don't exist at more than one place at one time. We never measure the "same" particle at two different locations simultaneously. If we did, they would not be in the same universe.

    Am I not correct?

  • @AThagoras I'm having problems with this too. I don't see how existence is waving. For all I know, the wave of a particle is a wave function which describes the probability.

  • Nicely done. Thumbs up.

  • Damn I'm trying to understand some Quantum Physics for my upcoming Chemistry test but can't understand a damn thing. This is all jibberish to me.

  • @xRaIDeNx69 ikr lol

  • OH YEAH ALSO CHECK OUT HOW TO MAKE A UNIVERSE EVEN MORE F-ED UP

  • @August1977 idiot

  • This is too haphazard, it doesnt explain the wave-particle duality, or the issue, at all.

  • @Praw48 aw is that really true ? :( cuz i got really excited when he explained the fact that the particle exists then doesn’t exist. then does exist and then doesn’t exist. this isn’t what particle duality means?? Does this only apply to small particles?

  • @juble3, nono, you've gotten it right, the only problem is that this VIDEO doesnt really explain that idea :P

    Wave particle duality isnt about the existance of particles or not, but the fact that a particle can act like a wave, whenever it wants to >_> guh, physics eh?

  • @Praw48 Haha, oh. well, is the De Broglie wave inaccurate? and the wave function is a more accurate probabilistic representation of particles and how they act as waves?

  • In one of Richard Dawkins books he says that it is physically possible for a statue to wave (and of course the probability is astronomically small) because of the jumping around of atoms in a solid. Is this view still compatible with current quantum mechanics, etc?

  • 0:49 gobblygook?

  • fascinating.

  • Gaaah!! Stop pronouncing Schrodinger 'Schrodinjer'!!! o_O

    Other than that, brilliant video :P

  • Schroedingers cat...checkmate!

  • I'm trying to find a connection between characters with duality and quantum mechanics. Such as Terry Maloy in On the Waterfront, a brutish boxer who has a soft tender side. That's duality but I guess I'm stretching for a connection... any thoughts?

  • Curious, does anyone here know, if a electron can appear, then dissipate, even exist in two or more places at once, then does that mean the weight of the atom changes as well? Or is the energy and mass of that particle constant?

    Just curious.

  • Hi. As light acts as particle and wave, it appears to me light is constructed of billionths of an electron, or trillionths of a proton, and great collections of these undetectable particles travel as waves.

    This would also explain 1) Why light traveling passed the sun is bent. 2) Why everything in the universe has physical properties; including light which is interchangeable with solid mass, and back into light and radiative energy constantly according to forces impressed upon them.

  • anyone with common sense (minimum 7th grade education) can simply understand that this means "NOTHING CAN BE MEASURED AND ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE."

  • chicken fries! mmmmmmmm.... :D

    

  • chicken fries mmmmmm..... :D

  • is it just me or are the CGI guys kinda creepy?

  • IVe never understood what those smoke clouds are at 4:10 Are they those ckouds that creates stars :O?

  • @JollSSteR thats where stars are born.

  • @BoostedECO i learned that right after i posted the question but thank you very much indeed anyways :P

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  • I'm scared of these computer animated guys

  • Amazing!

  • haha i watch all these videos baked out of my mind

  • @TheCaptainLulz I have the LHC (Large Hydro Conelighter) just for that.... Nothing like experiencing the big bang with a big bong!

  • @conefucius and the big bong gets better with every big haul! X)

  • @TheCaptainLulz im high right now.

  • @TheCaptainLulz thats sad for you 54 other morons

  • @FIGHTFANNERD3 some people like a bit of fun in their lives. Youre clearly not one of them. go back to your text books.

  • @TheCaptainLulz Damn straight.

  • @TheCaptainLulz

    You say that now, but when trying to actually work with this data, this concept is extremely difficult. (along with the equations describing wave-particle motion)

  • @MattyHild you missed the part where I was stoned.

  • @TheCaptainLulz ? Uh it's just as awesome when you're sober.

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  • It dosen't make sense to anybody yet but it dose make sense, otherwise we wouldn't be here to try to understand it

  • this doesn't make sense to me. electrons "teleport"? How can they do that? To disappear and reaper somewhere else means that it must stop existing at point a then start existing again at point b. That doesn't sound possible. What is the method of travel electrons use?

  • That's the problem with quantum mechanics; it's all very counter intuitive. That's why most people don't understand it ( including me).

  • it would seem that on the scale of things the size of electrons the concept of "method" and "travel" and "time" mean very different things than they do at larger scales. To expect the world to work the same way in the minuscule scale world as it does on larger scales is like expecting an ant to be able to drive an SUV without making any modifications....

  • Quantum mechanics doesn't make sense. It isn't logical. But this is what the evidence shows.

  • Indeed. As they say, "truth is stranger than fiction".

  • thats cus human logic is based on our level of existence ...wich is literally in centimeters ...

    in small scale there is a different set of laws of physics ..

    just like if u could go smaller than the plank lenght there could be totally different laws than quantum mechanics ..for all we know there could be entire universes smaller than the plank lenghts ...

  • @Shigren: To a layman like me, it looks like when we get down to a certain level, time starts working in "ticks" instead of a continuum. It's all very confusing, so I'm eager to learn even more. :-)

  • Not understanding it is what makes me want to learn it too =)

  • It's wrong to say that an electron exists at point A, stops existing there and then starts existing at point B. Rather, at a given point, the electron, as a wave function, simultaneously occupies every point in the universe that it *can* occupy. Some of those points have a very high probability, some a very low probability. But when the wave collapses, the electron *can* appear at any point predicted by the probability curve.

    This is how electron tunneling in semi-conductors works, by the way.

  • saying universe is kinda missleading ...it occupies a relatively small space ...but compared to its size its huge.

  • and thats not very accurate either cus for small duration of time particle can not exist at all , for other ammounts of time they exist in more places at once ....its comeplete chaos ...

  • As I understand it, QT predicts that, for a given particle, until there's an observation (or depending on which interpretation of the theory one embraces, an irreversible interaction) a particle like an electron exists in every possible state simultaneously. Some are very likely, some extremely unlikely. Those possible states include that a particle can simply jump from one side of a doped semi-conductor to the other side (that's how they work) or from one side of the galaxy to the other side.

  • i dont think they can literally jump from one side of the galaxy to the other side , that would be faster than light ...or teleportation ....

    i understand they only jump in their restricted area ...the smaller the particle the bigger the area but not light years thats way to much.

  • Einstein raised the same objection in respect to what's referred to as "quantum entanglement" - something he called "spooky action at a distance" - the fact that two particles may be emitted from the same place, travel literally the distance of a galaxy apart, then the observation of a single particle causes *both* particles to assume particular distinct states, no matter how far apart.

    And this effect has been confirmed.

    But It doesn't violate FTL because you can't use it to communicate.

  • i know but its not like what u previously said that a single particle could be across a galaxy at the same time ..

    i think quantum entanglemen can be explained in terms of adittional dimensions ...

    maybe the space time between the 2 particle is actually 0 distance in a superior dimension but appears to be light years in 3d ...

    anyways it doesnt violate light speed cus nothing is travelling.

  • I'm afraid higher dimensions simply have nothing to do with it. Both Q entanglement and superposition of the states of an electron (including electron tunneling) are an aspect of the uncertainty principle.

    Electron tunneling is teleportation -- because there's a finite possibility that an electron will cease to exist in one place and come into existence in another - just as there's a finite possibility that an electron pair will come into existence out of nothing. That's a virtual particle.

  • yes but i dont think uncertainty has anything to do with entanglement?

    i mean 1 electrons changes its spin right at the same time another electron changes its spin at any distance ..

    but how does that involve uncertainty? its basicly 2 particles changing states in syncronisity at any distance....

    the only way i could explain it is if the distance between them is actually 0 in another dimension..

  • The entanglement of distant particles is a prediction of QM and that prediction has nothing to do with higher dimensions.

    The reason that the particles are "entangled" is because until an observation is made, the 2 particles simply don't have a distinct existence in 2 different locations and states. It's that *uncertainty* that causes them to be continually connected until an observation collapses the wave function. When 1 particle is observed, both assume distinct states, however distant.

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  • Fucking beautiful.

  • @Phelan666 i know exactly what you mean

  • yay european scientists

  • Quantum mechanics blows my mind! I'm excited for part 4

  • Mr. White Shirt sounds like Sexual Harassment Panda

  • looool

  • Those Characters don`t took too bad actually.

    They look like they were generated with poser. A great program IMO.

  • You mean Trivial Pursuit? If so, that's a pretty great unintentional pun.

  • 2:33 "Existence is waving."

    At the risk of sounding unintellectual... that's fuckin' awesome! :-D

  • Actually I think many scientist use that expression when they encounter something new. You are safe and sound brother.

  • It's the new "Eureka"

  • If that doesn't blow the minds of even the most intelligent physicists , there is a good chance that they have the wrong job.

  • @SourcesAreEverything totally my favorite part. 

  • great to see the wave function again after so many years.

  • The Max Headroom lookalike and CG voice synthesis distracts from what would otherwise be valuable and interesting information. I couldn't watch to the end.

  • What's up with the weird CG guy thoughout this video?

    anyways good Vid.. 5*

  • Wow.

  • Great video.Five Stars *****

  • The characters are part of a cover story underlying the Cassoipeia Project. You can read about it at cassiopeiaproject com.

  • I love this topic.

  • This is the stuff that all of us are made of. How can we be so certain of what or where we are?

  • @yuradumas

    Apparent consistency.

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  • This kind of stuff is boring! Just kidding! It is the most fascinating, mind warping subject I have ever come across. I love it!

  • The CGI people and the echoing voice to make it scary and amusing at the same time.

  • I thought he would've named it The Dance Of Life! :)

  • I thought that the existence of "particles" where the definition of existence. What is existence?

  • Existence is vibrational energy, its just that in the very small, it breaks all of the physical rules of the known universe of the very large. So, right now, at CERN they are trying to find the Boson Higgs particle to come up with a unifying theory of everything.

  • I love these vids, but are those two animated guys really necessary?

  • mind = blown

  • worst cgi people ever

  • are these all mind-experiments or has it actually been observed through a superawesomeelectron-microscop­e? anyways very interesting movie

  • I've learned these concepts in my undergrad... hard stuff to learn, but beautiful once you grasp it

  • The CG models aren't bad, but the jerky motion is crap, and the eyes are epic in fail. People use their eyes to look at things, including other people when to them. Without that much of the actual quality of the models detail, including good mouth work, makes a difference.

  • That bald dude at the start looks like Jim Robinson with moobs.

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  • Holy shit, that makes sense, sort of, kinda, not really.

  • RISE AND SHINE MR FREEMAN

  • @morehate4uall

    "...looks like he has tits"

    Gotta get the viewers somehow ;P

  • Still not a fan of those talking characters. I'd rather it be completely narrated.

  • Mind=Blown.

  • I could make a parody of these animated people..

    just insanely launch myself in all possible directions whilst speaking..haha