The Stand-Up Physicist: Why Quantum Mechanics is Weird

Part of the Stand-Up Physicist series, half hour chats by Doug Sweetser about his theoretical physics research. This show tries to explain why quantum mechanics has to be the way it is, due to a new definition of the calculus of 4D events in spacetime. Pictures are provided.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Theoretical
• Physics
• Quantum
• Mechanics
• Education
• Entertainment

[becomepostal]

Difference between bizarre and weird... Now that is a creepy question.

Speaking slowly when giving important information and pivotal argument is fine. Talking slowly as if you were forcing yourself is creepy ; it looks like you are playing a trick to little children. And joking about drugs is forgetting the victims, moron.

By the way, why this "double limit" in the equation ?

Plus, we can't hear the words at 23:20 because of the bad editing (music is fine, except when it becomes a barrier).

[sweetser]

@becomepostal Call it method acting.

The double limit is needed due to math requirements. A quaternion has a place for both time and space. Time commutes (t, 0) Q = Q (t, 0) but space does not (0, R) Q != Q (0, R). If changes in R go to zero first, then changes in t, one gets classical physics. My hypothesis: if changes in time go to zero first, then changes in space, the most you can know are average changes in spacetime. That is quantum physics.

Not working with a pro video team.

[alliedtoasters]

What are some current or prospective applications of quantum mechanics? Why, aside from curiosity, is it important that we understand (or at least try to understand) these tiny phenomena?

[sweetser]

Electronics. Building computer and iPods with smaller circuits requires understanding how this tiny world works in detail.

The math works fine. This video hopes to provide a new reason why that math must be the way it apparently is. We do not need to understand why quantum mechanics is like this.  Accept the math without question, and one can do electronics fine.

[alliedtoasters]

who's the italian mathematician who constructed numbers from one and zero?

[sweetser]

Giuseppe Peano.

[gtssage]

Marijuana and quantum mechanics. Two great things that goes great together.

[OssamabinKenny]

nerd

[CristianApostol]

@gtssage carl sagan would agree

[ChaostheClown]

You're pretty awesome. I enjoyed this, I think I'll be watching more.

[blackrad101]

Love this

[steve4961]

Why does this guy remind me of Bill Gates minus the net worth

[sweetser]

@SymmetricStrings You are correct. I have added an annotation at 2:50, "Bad Prop! Should be h/4 pi. Thanks for being the first out of 28k people to notice.

[roskildahphreak]

This guy is pissing me the fuck off!

[Frostblock]

lame

[becomepostal]

Say no to drugs (even legal ones).

Really, 90% of people can do drugs without much trouble, glad for them, but 10% of people are really destroyed by this. When people start, they never know in which category they belong.

[becomepostal]

@alliedtoasters What's the deal ? Are you just spamming threads with quizz-like questions ?