Summary of Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains The Weirdness of Quantum Physics

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Quantum mechanics is the area of physics that deals with the behavior of atoms and particles on microscopic scales. The many counter-intuitive aspects and results of quantum mechanics have provoked strong philosophical debates since its inception in the 1920s. In this video, Neil deGrasse Tyson explains some of the strange behavior of quantum mechanics that remains a mystery.

  • 00:00:00 Quantum mechanics is the area of physics that deals with the behavior of atoms and the particles on microscopic scales. Since its inception, the many counter-intuitive aspects and results of quantum mechanics have provoked strong philosophical debates. The 1920s was the birth of quantum physics, and you can't get crazier than quantum physics. Particles pop in and out of existence, you try to measure it and it's not there anymore but you saw it there a moment ago and it was intriguing once again. It was the physicist following you know the bouncing ball, weird, crazy things were going on inside the atom that was basic science which at the time, surely there were people who say what are you doing, i don't understand it, but we had people who were curious about the nature of the world and they pursued it. 50 years later, we would see the birth of the information technology revolution. The word quantum derives from the latin word for how much. In a nutshell, quantum mechanics looks at objects in terms of probability as opposed to certainty. This phenomenon is known as uncertainty principle, and was introduced first in 1927 by the German physicist Werner Heisenberg. You ever tried grabbing a quarter that's spilled out of your pants pocket in the back seat of a car
  • 00:05:00 Quantum physics plays an important role in our everyday lives, from our technology to our biology. However, some of the strange behavior of quantum mechanics remains a mystery. For example, some species of birds are able to see the earth's magnetic field due to quantum entanglement. Another example is superfluity - a liquid that flows without friction and without any loss of kinetic energy.
  • 00:10:00 Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the weirdness of quantum physics in this video.

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