If You Don't Understand Quantum Physics, Try This!

A simple and clear explanation of all the important features of quantum physics that you need to know. Check out this video's sponsor brilliant.org/dos
I have spent a lot of time thinking about how best to explain quantum physics and this is the result of all my hours of pondering, and I’m really happy with how it turned out. I decided to just explain it as it actually is, rather than rely on analogies. The video explains the quantum wavefunction, particle-wave duality, the measurement problem, the double-slit experiment, superposition, entanglement, quantum tunnelling, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and energy quantisation. Let me know if it was helpful! Cheers Dx
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For a more detailed introduction to quantum physics: 'The Quantum Universe' by Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw is good.
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Ouch. The uncertainty principle has nothing to do with quantum mechanics. It's a purely classical fact about linear systems. ;-)

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You're not dumb, it's just that the video isn't that good at explaining quantum physics. It should have stopped around the 5:10 mark and then use the remaining time to make sure the audiences fully grasped just the idea that what we understand to be just these tiny particles might actually be something else entirely. That's already a ton to swallow but the video keeps on going. Seriously, has anyone who never studied QPh actually followed it all the way through? I've seen it happen many times before: someone who's well familiar with the topic begins an introductory video in a very user-friendly manner but within the matter of minutes he completely loses the notion of teaching the uninitiated. He answers questions the audiences didn't even think to ask ("We don't care if it's called superposition, we don't even understand what the damn phenomenon is supposed to be, I mean, is it like atomic binding or something...?) but doesn't answer those they would in fact pose ("Wait, if the electron can either be here or there, why would we say it might be at two places at the same time? It's clearly just at one!").

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Thank you so much for the visual analogies, as a hands on learner it’s really difficult to conceptualize these concepts.

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This is really cool! Thank you for posting. Would you kindly make a detailed video on quantum entanglement specifically? It’s such a mind blowing phenomenon! For some reason it leads me to believe that the same happens amongst close individuals.

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I watched Avengers Endgame so I’m pretty sure I know how Quantum physics work.

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Hahaha Sheldon Cooper schooled us too in “TBBT”

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Endgame didn’t give u a big learning experience it was just a group of big words they jumbled up and called it quantum physics

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I watched endgame like three or four times already and I do not fully understand Quantum Physics 💀

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@@urgoofylightningboy5146 exactly

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[@JohnFerrier]

It should be noted that for tunneling, a "barrier" doesn't necessarily mean a wall. Some people may be thinking of the walls in their house. What it means instead is a potential barrier. In other words, a voltage potential difference, or a different energy state.

[@domainofscience]

Yes, excellent point. I was thinking of explaining this in the video, but it didn't make the cut.

[@shrivatsakulkarni9282]

But in microprocessor there in actually a wall . What's your take on that?

[@JohnFerrier]

@@shrivatsakulkarni9282 That's not how that works. Look up Fermi levels.

[@armpap1]

Which doesn't differ much from the walls in your house. Isn't it just a bunch of atoms in solid state that would repel anything else approaching with electromagnetic force? How is a potential barrier different? Same interaction type, same force, so a valid analogy.

[@JohnFerrier]

@@armpap1 No. That is a completely different approach that includes a proton and screening effects. That's not applicable to understanding the basic 1D model of tunneling. Check out the exchange above. The creator of the video has a PhD in Physics and I'm currently working on my PhD. Now, we could look at atoms for tunneling INSIDE the atom. But, it has nothing to do with an actual wall.

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I had a very vague idea of what quantum physics meant, but I understood everything in this video. I love when I learn something and it ties a ton of knowledge up, it feels great.

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So you understand what a wave function is; not a wave , not a particle, but a function, an amplitude squared. Simple and easy?

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Thanks for spending the time to create and share this content 🤙🏾

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I aint going to sleep until i understand 1% of this

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Lol 😆

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Same bro it's 3:45 and I have school at 6:15 and it ends at 5:00 ;(

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I understand 100%

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Its easy

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This won't resurrect my dead brain cells but at least i kind of learned something

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Good clear explanation of this complex subject and you’ve helped me get it clearer in my understanding 😃

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Thank you. That was an excellent presentation. I'm a retired Physics teacher and have been incredibly frustrated that I could never get my head around quantum mechanics enough to explain to my A level students. I can now finally forgive myself!! Thanks again

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How can you forgive yourself for failing your students? :-)

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@@lepidoptera9337sometimes you just have to consider the possibility to shut up, my friend

[@lepidoptera9337]

@@mattoppenheimer690 You are clearly not listening to your own advice. ;-)

[@julietserpentin1491]

I don't come from a science background but I've always been fascinated by physics and astronomy. I've tried on and off for years to get my head around this and I think I finally got it! From one teacher to another - congrats and one hell of a thank you

[@P.a.u.l.ii.n.a]

Same! It’s so interesting and it has this cool but unsettling vibe that attracts me to quantum physics, astronomy, etc.

[@rocky821]

Eastern spirituality is where you will get answers especially advaita vedanta

[@ozanmrcan]

no you didn't

[@drawer3174]

lol nerds

[@ranjithkumar-qb9xy]

short and crisp video with a ton of details. thank you

[@rjdwoodtones600]

I’ve been investigating Quantum Physics on my own for the past year and this an excellent overview

[@codingphysics695]

I think, there are two reasons, why quantum mechanics is hard to unterstand: 1. The underlying math is quite complicated. For the basic concepts of classical mechanics like velocity and acceleration you only need basic calculus, with is taught at school. But the fundamentals of quantum physics involves much more math, like complex analysis and Hilbert spaces. In order to understand something like the Heisenberg uncertainty principle from the mathematical point of view, you must be at least be familiar with the Fourier transformation. 2. Quantum mechanics is counterintuitive. The concepts of classical mechanics are closely linked to our everyday experience. The orbital motion of the moon around the earth and the trajectory of an arrow are two aspects of the same thing. But in quantum mechanics we have to abandon intuitive classical concepts like the trajectory and have to replace them with abstract mathematical things like the wave function. Quantum mechanics questions our concept of reality. Physical quantities can be in a state of superposition, so that they are strictly speaking undefined before the measurement. By measuring this physical quantitity, the state of the system is irreversibly changed, simply because of the presence of this information. But without an idea what really going on at a measurement, it is difficult to get an intuitive understanding how quantum mechanics works. The solution, perhaps, is to approach quantum mechanics from a completely different angle than described in most textbooks. Instead of a particle in a potential well, one can consider an even simpler system: the qubit. A single qubit can illustrate the concept of superposition. With two qubits you get already entanglement. By learning how quantum computers work one can get an understanding about quantum mechanics even without advanced math. So, the real benefit of quantum computers could be that we use them to better understand quantum mechanics.

[@User-jr7vf]

I sometimes find myself wondering what math is more difficult, that of theory of Relativity or that of quantum mechanics. I usually end up concluding the latter is more complicated... for differential geometry is all about geometry!

[@David-km2ie]

You seem like you now where you are talking about. Which books would you recommend for a rigorous foundation of quantum. I wanted to try landau and lifshitz 3 volume after have a good basis of GR. Do you have other suggestions?

[@codingphysics695]

@@David-km2ie I own a copy of the Landau-Lifshitz myself and know from experience that learning from this book can be very hard. He explains many things without explicit mathematical calculation, so that much is left to the reader and you have to actively participate. But if you have worked through the entire book, then you probably have mastered quantum mechanics. (But I can only guess, because I never finished it.) If this is not your preferred learning method, then there are alternatives, such as the Cohen-Tannoudji, which I think is a bit more pedagogical.

[@codingphysics695]

@@User-jr7vf It depends how serious you want get into the theory. In principal, even good old Newtonian mechanics gets complicated if it comes to non-linear systems. However, the fundamentals of classical mechanics and special relativity can be illustrated quite nicely without math by thought experiment. But these thought experiments relies on our common sense and our intuition, which fails at unterstanding quantum mechanics. It think, since we are left in the quantum world without the guidance by our intuition, the math appears much more complicated.

[@Liz-pc3dc]

I'm not sure I'm familiar enough with qubit for it to help me understand better, but thanks anyway for the tip, I'll try and find more info on the qubit.

[@leonidas6134]

When in doubt, find a video narrated by an English Gentleman.

[@louf7178]

I didn't realize they have so many "r" sounds for words not spelled with "r" 😵

[@adamfirst3772]

and use big words... wrapped in bacon and baloney , topped with lots of spam... served with a bottomless side of insult!! and no, i dont mean Gordon Ramsay... just Quantum Crap...

[@jenny-rm3rt]

Lou Fazio wait what

[@christophjanssen9324]

Thank you so much! All I could find on the internet was really complicated shtick, as a person without good maths or physics education all the numbers and unexplained variables quickly threw me off - but this helped! In a very concise way even.

[@ma-lu3088]

I think what Richard meant in his quote was; once you understand it, you need to forget it. What is, isn't always. The rules are constantly changing and evolving. Just like the universe is constantly expanding. It's like finding a cure for a dis-ease (disease). Take for example syphilis. There was no cure for syphilis up until mid 20th century. What I am trying to say is; if you are working to solve something. Then what you are working on is not really impossible. It's more possible than you think.

[@meispi9457]

The Heisenberg uncertainity principle was wonderfully explained!!!

[@sharank]

True. I'd always known what the uncertainty was but never had the intuitive understanding of the uncertainty. Great explanation indeed

[@agod5608]

I knew nothing and now I am a physicist Very good introduction.

[@eenkjet]

? It wasn't explained at all. Go to 3Blue1Brown for an actual explanation.

[@JaredJeyaretnam]

Finally a proper explanation! The canonical uncertainty principle is, at its heart, a statement about wave mechanics, not quantum mechanics, and you’ve shown that here. But then you consider stuff like different spin components and it gets weird!

[@ewmegoolies]

Yes but doesn't entanglement provide a way to measure one wave and know the properties of the other entangled wave?

[@Rationalific]

Wow! I'm extremely impressed with what you fit in to a video that's less than 13 minutes long! This might just be the best ever overview of quantum physics over such a short span of time! And I also like that you made things easy to understand while also giving us lots of great information!

[@mrhassell]

Brilliant! Thank you! I've now got a neat, straightforward, fun way to provide a reference to anyone. You smashed that atomically, out of its boundary!

[@ShivamGupta-sr9zf]

This is without a doubt one of the best explanation of quantum physics on KZbin.

[@nyanity]

This actually did help demystify it! Most analogies out there make it sound like pure magic, but the analogy of waves from a pebble thrown in water + the insights on how measurements are done and what models are used help understand what quantum physics is actually about

[@yum8666]

It still feels like magic though

[@greattit]

That was a great way of explaining the Heisenberg uncertainty principle utilizing the addition of sine waves / fourier transformation.

[@fiascally6138]

No, like this video is honestly so good. It's perfect. I listened to it a bunch, and this is everything I need to know. You made it very interesting and I'm looking forward to researching it in my own time. And the whole layout was ideal, I cannot recommend it enough. Thank you.

[@petterhflindqvist5962]

Thanks a lot for an engaging way of explaining something I still do not understand, but still find extremely interesting and intriguing:)

[@SeriouslyCross]

As a physics undergrad, this video explained so well concepts that took me weeks to understand through my lectures. Glad it's out there.

[@mustaphaItani]

Came here looking for answers. Leaving with more questions :(

[@veraintuizione6497]

Probably it's that the good ;)

[@CalvinHikes]

Well you're ready to teach quantum mechanics

[@balkaranmahabir8557]

N dat is wat its abt. Funny but tru

[@curiouscatlabincgetsworrie7755]

Spectacular! I followed along all the way and didn't slide through parts I could get later in the re-run haha. Explained this way it all makes sense.

[@joehayek8798]

One of the best explanations I ever watched and I have watched way too many videos and read quite a bit about Quantum Physics

[@juliocbp9389]

"If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics." Looking at you, Deepak Chopra!

[@YouTubeallowedmynametobestolen]

I wish I could "like" this multiple times.

[@abisgamer4825]

Feynman was a treasure

[@anmolmehrotra923]

Shots fired

[@saltyjo7514]

It is also talking about the guy in this video. He doesn’t understand that is why he is so confident.

[@madisampi2770]

he is a con man

[@amber1862]

I liked and disliked this video at the same time, it's now down to you Dom.

[@domainofscience]

I tried to measure it but all I got was a load of cats!?

[@josephgiannopoulos9414]

I would like to pray for the ppl who made this video.. GOD BLESS THESE PEOPLE AND ALL OF YOU . GOD IS GREAT JESUS CHRIST

[@josephgiannopoulos9414]

@Joe Chang hey chang read another book you guys are doing good with that sorry your brain right now is probably mush sorry it's not your fault bad ppl told you the key to everything is found in this HORRIBLE school system. Good luck if you weren't on this chanelle I promise I would have told you but I do not trust you

[@josephgiannopoulos9414]

@Joe Chang what I can say is if you dont believe in God I would find him not about quantum physics. Trust me the man upstairs does not give to shits about you knowing this . He cares how you treat the scientist next to you. That's impress him more GOD BLESS

[@irtehpwn09]

@@domainofscience How do they "observe" which slit the electron goes through? i know its with a measuring device, but what exactly does that entail? is it a stream of photons going past the slit or something and you just measure when there is a break in the stream to determine which slit it went through? Also how do we send just 1 electron through the double slit experiment, when ever they say that, they always show a laser beam, which i imagine would be many many electrons in a stream, or do they send a pulse or sumut? I was thinking perhaps, electrons travel as a wave but then collapse to a particle when they touch something, however i found an error in that thinking, because if that were true, the wave should collapse when it touches the double slits. I would appreciate any input and thanks for the video. Also others feel free to add your input.

[@JustMorad]

Perfect explanation. I learned this in engineering school long time ago and looked for a video to refresh my memory.

[@hazespo]

Ive always had an interest for quantum mechanics. When I was 13 I started my studies with super complicated lectures. 2 years later im back at it but I’ve found it’s easier when I first have a basic idea of it! So thank you for this

[@sophiabradley2055]

i’m only 14 but honestly i want to know more. like it’s so interesting to me. my brain hurt bc i watched like 5 other videos today but it’s so worth it. it genuinely makes me want to study this type of stuff in college.

[@MarkoCloud]

If it interests you never let anyone tell you that you shouldn't be studying it!

[@lukakiljac5662]

I wish I was interested in this stuff when I was your age, I regret going through school just barely scraping by, studying only enough so I get a pass and then forgeting most of it, and the world is so interesting, sigh... Thinking back on school, there is not one subject that is inherently boring.

[@lukakiljac5662]

I'm 22 btw I'm not old or anything I just feel like there is a lot of catching up I have to do

[@Hellohiq10]

Me too lol

[@robertdecke3158]

Good on you. don't give up, challenge yourself, and you will go far in life, great to see women taking an interest in science, I'm still freaked out by the twin slit experiment, how do the atoms know we are watching them??

[@kmsnow6292]

I first thought this was Quantum Physics 101 when I first clicked on it. After 7 mins into the video, I concluded: This is Quantum Physics 10100.

[@albertmontes11]

Thank you for that generalized explanation/ I always wondered about quanta physics 👍

[@prounboxing1575]

I never thought that I would be able to understand the quantum mechanics but you made it super easy and that too in so lest time.

[@melhead77]

I’ve just watched this with my 8 year old who has been asking me lots of questions about quantum physics having watched Antman. A bit technical for him just yet, but I learned something! Thanks!

[@edevictory2228]

Tanx alot for the video

[@theducksaysmoo3963]

1:30 holy shit my hs teacher spent weeks trying to explain this concept and you just summed it up in one sentence.

[@Les537]

Because we didn't actually learn anything form this. It's just labels and a few glossed over concepts not grounded in any kind of understanding. Pretend to teach it back to your duck and see. It's a neat demo, anyway.

[@ghanaserapis999]

@@Les537 wrong for laymen/women like myself. We learned that everything is a wave until we measure it. Then it becomes a particle and the fabric we call real/ity. A blind person lives in a dark universe until they measure the waves with their ears, hands, feet, mouth, and emotions. All measuring devices to turn waves into objects. We just have an additional measuring tool called eyes. Every wave has potential to be... some>thing.

[@jeffrymichineau4002]

You have done a fantastic job of simplifying this topic..well done..

[@mosu8026]

The wave-particle part is the same for the electromagnetic spectrum as for example: X-rays travel in wavelenghs but interact with matter as particles.

[@Scopie]

I feel so much smarter! Even though my grades disagree..

[@universewithinyou2761]

Me too, I love to learn science especially in physics. Indeed, grades doesn't define your intelligence, even Einstein himself hates school because it is stupid

[@Scopie]

@Michael Terrell II It was a joke

[@trout2818]

same lmao

[@emiliap8790]

Dont worry, I get straight A's and Im still a dumb hoe

[@horacio6537]

@@universewithinyou2761 *hated. He's dead

[@marioyacoub]

“If you think you understand this quote, then you don’t understand this quote” Richard Feynman

[@johndevine6687]

Feynman was insane.

[@handledav]

thats a paradox

[@muskmelon-o-8161]

Lol 😂

[@leopardtiger1022]

Excellent first time I see a clear explanation of quantum and related concepts. Thank you.

[@ppmealing]

I already have a good understanding of this at this level, but this is the best intro video I've seen.

[@tarynaurelia2169]

Me: Doesn’t even know “Quantum” Also Me: *Clicks* Still Me: WHAT IS THIS

[@finalboss6973]

Me too :D

[@louf7178]

They seemed to have changed the meaning. I knew it to be the smallest amount needed to produce the effect - now it just seems to mean some mystical phenomena.

[@huepjr5606]

@@louf7178 You simply got a misconception, it never changed meaning, quantum phyics is the study of really small objects (particles)

[@idan7989]

Also you: stupid

[@khateguico9263]

Same

[@Slow_d0ge]

Yes exactly! Using analogies is almost condescending and can be demotivating to someone who has, all of a sudden, lost track because the anology is off topic and distracting. Straight knowledge can be revised without confusion and is the ultimate goal of learning. Love this explanation and I'm even confident enough to use this video to educate the older members of my family :D thank you.

[@rspencer41]

Entangled Particles are connected to each other in a fifth dimension of consciousness .The fifth dimension is not constrained to “ C”,só the particles react instantaneously. This existence of this fifth dimension also explains the measurement problem. The universe is “aware” you are trying to detect it.

[@kylesphire3507]

@@rspencer41 is there scientific evidence supporting this claim?

[@owensnow6235]

This explanation helped so much! Such a complicated abstract concept.

[@Shreyy17]

Thanks to your video, I could understand it. I'm in 12th grade and our books don't have any explanation for Uncertainty Principle or the Schrodinger equation. They just have given the equation and stated it. Also, my chem sir had given a very bad analogy of the Uncertainty Principle ("You're sitting right now, so you have fixed position, but no momentum" . He even said it's easy..) , it's embarrassing tbh. So I would have got frustrated by analogies as such. You were on point. YT is definitely best place to learn. Thanks to youtubers like you.

[@flying_turtle3893]

When your supposed to be studying for a bio test but this is more Interesting.

[@richardcook6505]

Flying_turtle ! Go ahead and edit this again. Think, primary school grammar...

[@ogsupremelyvida]

Lol me but for physics

[@eperke2933]

how did you know? lol

[@soleus6386]

Why is this so relatable? 😂😂😂

[@reganf.3636]

This is literally me right now. I have a microbio final tomorrow and its 2 am xD

[@ntt2k]

This is the most intuitive explanation of quantum physics that I have seen. I've been been thinking about "a wave & a particle at the same time" completely wrong this entire time

[@AUniqueName]

Close though

[@toddashton3774]

Soooo cool. I'm 58 and feel like I'm 8 again. Maybe if I watch enough of your videos I will be able to build a time machine and go back to when I was 8. Wait, would I still be an old cuss? Can you make a "Time travel" map, please. 🙏

[@romanfischer2196]

Incredible animation and general production quality! Very well done!