Physics and Quantum theory have become a fascination to me. I could listen to these lectures for hours... I enjoy it more than music even.

@tmadden8245

4 жыл бұрын

It is music

@marijnmens7583

4 жыл бұрын

@@tmadden8245 The heisenberg principle is like religion to me. Knowing that a law of nature is that you can not know everything is somehow comforting to me. Life is not about control, cause and effect and rigid laws at all. It is about chance and probability. I think that idea is as beautifull as beethoven's 9th is.

@bradywells1293

4 жыл бұрын

I'd recommend picking up a book (or two) by Brian Green who is a great explainer of quantum mechanics, relativity, and even string theory (circa whenever the book version was released). The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos were the two that I read and couldn't put them down when I was reading.

@user-jh3oq7wk6s

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it is called "midlife crisis". I have it too...

@rayzorrayzor9000

3 жыл бұрын

RE : Mista Sandman I’d say that music is fuel for the Soul , Physics and QM is fuel for the Mind, I enjoy both whilst ofcourse not forgetting my fuel for my Stomach , Fried Chicken by the bucket load lol 😂😂😂

“ It’s not hard to understand Quantum Theory , It’s hard to understand what Quantum Theory is telling us” WOW . . . When he said that phrase I just knew I would be glued to this lecture .

Great video. I've recently had the pleasure to interview the founder of the the world's first quantum biology doctoral training centre, Prof. Jim Al-Khalili.

Well-spoken and simple enough that I'd expect anyone with a basic interest in the field to be able to follow along. That's quite an achievement on it's own.

@erikziak1249

9 жыл бұрын

Exactly my thoughts after watching this. Great video and great presenter. It is a gift to know how to talk in such a way.

@moonglow6639

5 жыл бұрын

Haha yes it is indeed ;)

@yuanler

4 жыл бұрын

Nawaf Mesad has to o

@mrloop1530

3 жыл бұрын

If you were able to follow along, I guess everybody should be.

Incredible! That’s almost a book in a single easy to understand talk, thank you.

I love these lectures. Learning about the things science is still trying to figure out is one of the best things on youtube. The fact that I can actually understand it without getting dizzy is pretty awesome.

@oonaghhugh7107

8 ай бұрын

I agree.. At school i couldnt relate to science of any kind ..but after reading 'Tao of Physics ' i realised creatives & artists are not a separate species to precise minded scientists. All things are connected, & the RI makes fornerly unreachable knowledge so fascinating & colorful. Its a joy to be able to access cutting edge contemporary discoveries & catch up with subjects that formerly seemed dry or irrelevant. Its such an exciting adventure. Thank you You Tube & RI.i am so grateful for your inspiration in these new fields of learning.

What an amazing lecture. He never 'flubbed' or 'ummed' and 'arhhed' more than to take a single breath. Having read a number of Phillip Balls marvellous books with great pleasure, now I am enamoured of the man too. Thank you for posting this, TRI.

@walkwithmeASMR

2 жыл бұрын

He literally ummed and ahhd in thid first sentence. Not like it matters. Lol

@StevenCampbell1955

2 жыл бұрын

@@walkwithmeASMR Ok, I did miss more than I understood too. Perhaps I was so overcome by the end that my memory too was saturated. I bow to your better memory and recognise your higher abilities. Not to go on about it, I am made humble, a little sad for my own diminishing powers. I pass the baton of edification, like an olympic torch, still smouldering with desire, but fluttering with time's passage, with which you can forge into a new understanding bringing light to those forming on the byways merely to wave at your passing.

Wow. I’ve been reading this guy’s popular chemistry and biology books for a while, and they’re great. Nice surprise to find a video with him.

Interesting topic. Thank you . Would like to mention the induced-fit model is generally considered a better model of of enzyme-substrate interaction than the lock and key model. This is because the active site and the substrate are, initially, not perfect matches for each other.

Superb lecture. Shewing the woo-woo out of QM. And well edited so we can see the images the speaker is talking about. Thanks RI.

Thank you Mr. Ball, you touch on so many points and subjects in their own right but still knit it all together!

It's really cool how he managed to add the caveats sensibly, starting from the doubts around "Quantum biology", to D-wave's "Quantum computer" and the many-worlds interpretation. Very well articulated talk :).

Well done, a huge effort put in and easy to follow.

What a blessing you are to us, Simon. Thank you for these updates. Much appreciated.

Fascinating! Even strange effects of entanglement influences biological processes! Great introduction to the real impact of quantum physics on real day-to-day phenomenons! Opens up new horizons of understanding! Thanks a lot!

I had paused the video several times to deeply thik about it..

Fantastic lecture! I can not believe it is out there just like THAT! Wow! Thank you, thank you, Royal Institution for going online ... this is a bliss for me ... delicious brain food! :-)

@virtualmoyda7221

4 жыл бұрын

A beautiful mind and all.

@clivewells7090

4 жыл бұрын

Slow down soldier or you may get mindigestion! X

That was amazing. Thank you for making it easier to wrap my head around by using so many examples.

Thanks for uploading the conference.

This is just astonishing how everything connects to each other.

Thank you so much RI! These lectures have been a great treasure for me. A real goldmine of information. Thank you for spreading knowledge and enlightenment to all humans across the globe.

@raadtmaarwat5781

3 жыл бұрын

Spread the word... Mine rcommandation for it!

If only I had the honour to sit in this seminar . I would be beyond grateful.

Best explanation encountered so far. Very well done.

I am not from academia, but how Ball presents and lectures makes me feel as if I have. Well done. Well done! And a tantalizing & fascinating subject. Covered, or touched on, the relative fundamentals and theories with many references to which my interests and continued educational path can flow from. Thank you for this lecture. Sincerely. I am thoroughly enjoying Ri lectures and shall seek more from Ball.

its so inspiring it almost made me cry, thanks

I almost had my finger on quantum phenomena, but then its wave-function shifted!

@SewerTapes

4 жыл бұрын

This is the funniest comment I've read in a while. Thank you.

@clivewells7090

4 жыл бұрын

Haw haw.

@TheAwillz

3 жыл бұрын

All physical phenomenon are waves of varying harmonic structure.

I love everything in my tiny garden even that much more after listening to this fantastic talk. I hold the Redwood forests in Northern California in dearest terms for being there for thousands of years. I don't mind at all to be "entangled" to photosynthesis.

Thanks for the upload.

Extremely good presentation, very clear and detailled.

I wish the video had included the Q&A.

Do relativistic effects, such as relativistic generalizations of the Schrodinger wave equation, have any important observable effects on biology?

Terrific audio. Great job, and wonderful microphone.

bravo sir, thank you for that talk!

I engaged in conversation briefly on 'Twitter' with Philip Ball. He really does seem to be a highly intelligent man!

@frankiewally1891

4 жыл бұрын

and what is the paragon you used to determine this man`s intelligence,apart from your bloated ego?

the clearest explanation of quantum entanglement i've ever heard!

@marionperez6746

3 жыл бұрын

"You have to tug it...to get it off..." contemplative pause

"You have to tug it...to get it off..." *contemplative pause*

Wow, so many ideas in one talk. Like a wonderful buffet, this one will take time to digest. ;-)

Genius and amazing !!! But - proofs? Is there any progress? tnx alot 💖

Really it is amazing.... Mysteries are gradually unfolding. Nice talk and we'll elaborated. Thank you.

A fascinating and inspiring talk....

Quantum Biology is an exciting field for our young new minds entering academia. It reminds me of computer science in the 80's when the students knew more than the profs...

Great lecture. Do you think it's possible that retrocausality is how "spooky action" actually works?

24:10 best analogy ever

15:04 the four images seem completely consistent.

I have often wondered how far across a molecule Hund’s rule of maximum multiplicity prevails. There is no quantum phenomenon unless there are boundary conditions. The wave functions need to be pinned down at the boundaries. A wave can have any wavelength if there are no boundaries. We don’t know if the universe is bounded. If it is not, then the wavelength, frequency of quanta in the universe can take on any value, and are not quantized.

36:37 Best intro to the subtlety of the entanglement concept!

@ChaojianZhang

2 жыл бұрын

52:50 The Many Worlds interpretation - "it's not even wrong"😆

A good talk and a really great thought provoking subject. He did deliver some broad-sweeping claims that I think are a bit dismissive of a lot of hard work done over the past 50 years or so.

Great lecture! Can't wait to see Quantum Psychology! :P

@Quasardoom

2 жыл бұрын

Trying to explain consciousness... phenomenal consciousness!

Philip ball is a very good science communicator!

Great British humour in his final statement, luv it!

"Spooky action at a distance:" A perfect phrase for a perfectly insane idea that is perfectly sound yet makes to sense!!! QM still blows my mind and short-circuits my neurons.

@garryblanchard4960

3 жыл бұрын

‘’Spooky action at a distance:’’ A perfect phrase for a perfectly insane idea that is perfectly sound yet makes to sense!!! QM still blows my mind and short-circuits my neurons.

Very interesting knowledge and thoughts. Excellent presentations, as usual by Ri...

Thanks for another great video!

Excellent. One reservation with the "bird compass" concept, is that a compass alone is not sufficient to navigate. You need a map as well. Many experiments have been done with carrier pigeons. Rupert Sheldrake has written much about this aspect.

@Erickvazquezc

Жыл бұрын

didnt he also experimented with the pigeons blind folded?

47:18 Well this quite explain why in monocromatic green light plants have very high quantum yield of photosynthesis reffering to Mccree relative quantum yield

They would have to have a common multiple (sympathetic waves not dissonance) like chords played in a piece of music to harness spin energy - that are all tuned to the same base root (nano matter's root frequency (resonant frequency of all building blocks of mass, not a large structures resonant frequency) Anything non-common multiple with leftover fractions is dissonance and won't function but rather collapse the wave. (wave cancellation) it has to align mathematically to work in chorus with spin. "sympathetic frequencies"

Ooops I commented to quickly about Photosynthesis/Quantum Biology but I would like to say that this was a very good lecture. Lastly something worth noting is that when any speaker mentions the Quantum Wave one should note that this Wave isn’t a physical entity, it’s a mathematical wave , a way of describing what we “think” is happening , just like when educators talk about entanglement and trying to explain how this seems to suggest faster than light travel , it’s only what we “think” or our best “guess” as to what is happening . I use to believe that entangled particles were already pre determined to be in the “state” that we measure them to be BUT as I learnt more on the subject I realised that it’s no way near that simple and something is going on that we have yet to understand , that’s why Quantum Physics/Biology is such great subject, so many ideas, so many questions but so few answers, like for instance the Quantum Tunnelling Effect, this is actually predicted and seen as a “quirk” of light when it passes through different mediums, part of the light wave “tunnels” away separately from the rest of the wave , Amazing 😉

The real-life Dr. Who! Fabulous!

He talks about electron spin and doesn’t get into the electron transport chain that gives all life energy? Fascinating lecture.

Very interesting. Could the two slitts be acting like the aperture of the old first cameras??? If you build a old box camera, with two apertures, will you get the same affects???

Fantastic presentation.

beautifully presented... I am excited to the fullest.

Ooo la la! Shots fired at the end there. I have to say, I've never seen a wave that wasn't made out of particles. The collapse of the wave functions seems more likely a problem of the limits of our language or our measuring devices.

For me this was very advanced. Can some simpler explanation be indicated? Thanks.

This guy must've had a brilliant teacher! I don't think I've heard a better exposition of quantum theory, and, he explains the world of microbiology in easily comprehensible language, quite a feat when you look at the wavelength of a single quanta, which I believe is called a Planck Length and compare it to the the size of an animal, i.e. a human, or one git, that's really scientelligent.

This is insane 🤯, I love it 😻

21:56 correction, in the thylakoid membranes in the chloroplast

man, this is well explained

My take-away; my next band will be called 'Deuterated Oderants'. Wait...It already exists...

worht watching the Q&A - many more info there

I think this one is my favorite!

Thanks for sharing. At some extends a better understanding of Roger Penrose question about consciousness and what is lacking in current artificial intelligence.

Starts at 3:00

@gazmasonik2411

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🙏 that’s 3 minutes I will be able to get back after! this futile attempt to make up small amounts of space within my thought process 🥥🍏🍦...Two after writing this !!!

@fazilat8648

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much

@garetr

4 жыл бұрын

+

I also slept alot through school barely passing having to make up work all at the end.

Does decohearace occur after or before a substance reaches its first mole?

Could this explain how proteins fold so fast to find the lowest possible energy conformation?

@ThomasLCJansen

6 жыл бұрын

No

@nmarbletoe8210

6 жыл бұрын

plain old wobbling seems to work for protein folding, i think, at least in general. proteins are big, so harder to quantumify than electrons. (there's a quantum electron capture process in photosynthesis, pretty recent discovery)

@m3lezgnz829

5 жыл бұрын

As far as I know, protein do it in that way because they reach a more stable thermodynamical state.

@mrsatic

5 жыл бұрын

MatCalr Gonzlez Actually it is because of water molecules around proteins during protein folding by changing quantum information of dna due to H bonds

@m3lezgnz829

5 жыл бұрын

I think he's asking for proteins, not nucleic acids. From the literature i've readen (Lodish, Alberts) no one actually knows why proteins fold in that particular forms and in that way, being in fact an unsolved problem in biophysics. Change in quantum information sounds interesting by the way . Where can I find more information about?

Amazing lecture so much information on this

A humble question I would like to submit to the respected Professors Jim and Phillip (if you ever come back to review this video): how does some tiny little flowers shine in blue, purple, indigo and violet colors. Presumably something inside the petals are resonating with lyrics light quanta with these higher energy states. How would you explain this effect, while most flowers display red, orange and yellow colors, and perhaps there are none with Green hues. The white flowers like Jasmin we can assume flower during the night time, to attract moths i.e. sort of nocturnal butterflies.

Wave-particle duality explained (?): 1) A moving electrical charge (atom or electron), generates a moving magnetic field. 2) The moving magnetic field interacts with the magnetic fields of the electrons in the atoms and molecules of the gun itself, the medium it is going through (air), and/or the perimeter of the tiny slits themselves. 3) This interaction may generate photons which are a wave. 4) The (atom or electron) with it's magnetic field can go one way and the photons, once generated, go their own way. 5) The (atom or electron) is probably still just a particle (although the basis of everything in existence could be vibrating energy waves), and photons are still just a wave.

Exactly, thank you.

It's beautiful. Quantum Physics is beautiful. Quantum everything.

Yes, that Erwin Schrodinger chap was one cool cat. He was dead-on on his critique of quantum theory.

what a fascinating talk!! 🙏 Namaste

I have no idea what he’s saying but somehow it makes me feel smart just listening.

@QANGOR

4 жыл бұрын

Every road requires a 1st step, the most important. You just made that step.

awesome lecture, i just wish i was not hyper sensitive to the sniffing and slurping sounds the microphone is amplifying.

Thank you, seriously.

Did you do that with waves?

Interesting presentation but marred by Ball's suggestion (23:44) that R- and S-carvone should smell the same based on their similarity in structure, particularly that this should be so based on the "lock and key" theory. The "lock and key" approach would suggest exactly the opposite, that the R- and S- enantiomers would be expected to have different interactions with macromolecular receptors, just as R- and S- amino acids do. The theory that scent distinction is based on differences in vibration actually seems to be refuted by this example, in that enantiomeric pairs generally have identical IR spectra. Vibrational circular dichroism can distinguish enantiomers, so perhaps some similar effect could be in play in the biological situation, but the differences in binding energies of R- and S- enantiomers to biological macromolecules is so pronounced that surely that is the preferred interpretation, if only based on Occam's razor.

bright earth is why I'm here, I think once I got into alchemy during my art degree it sparked something within me, something science smelling

When we can understand the conscious interaction with the particles. Since consciousness is a holographic universe, we decide in the moment

As a retired hs bio teacher, I feel that much of what I taught has to at the least include a little of the insights on animal physiology/behavior/development provided by quantum mechanics!

Tunnelling is simply overlap of fields. We have so much to learn about fields. First we might try to understand how many fields are required to explain the results.

How can you show that the molecular transfer rate of a deuterium atom within a enzyme is not caused simply by the steric hindrance of its increased size, rather than by its ability to "tunnel"?

Water dose this by preasure of water wave, back pushing front through pasta of least resistant. Do these particles exert a pressure on each other???

Splendid, I would say!!

I would love to see a lecture where Ball doesn't talk from a set script of notes on paper, instead, a lecture where he just starts talking and goes on about whatever comes up in that genius mind of his! 😁

Scientists: "Birds, insects, and honeybees are extraordinarily sensitive to the tiny signals from the Earth's native electromagnetic fields." Society: "Who's ready to upgrade to 5G and cover the planet with microwaves? Eh?"

@TS-og6gf

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@menassies3224

3 жыл бұрын

We already have 4G so I don’t understand the push back

@bzabrisk

3 жыл бұрын

@@menassies3224 5G = much more radiofrequency radiation

@marcus8710

3 жыл бұрын

Market demands exist in a totally different universe than scientific understanding. The public isn't educated - or concerned - enough to value caretaking to any degree.

Nice. Thanks P. Ball.

Fascinating, and very sharply explained. (A minor irritation is that the speaker has a bit of a "shouting-way" of speaking as if he thinks the public will otherwise not hear him. That makes it a bit harder to keep my ears focused on his voice. But perhaps this has something to do with microphone settings/acoustics. He speaks as if he has to reach up the backseat rows with his "unaided" voice, seemingly unaware of the amplification power of his mic...)

@ihdihabaid7639

4 жыл бұрын

Voice gave me a headache. Anyone can explain why?

A very very honest presentation. Although I personally disagree with his view on the "many worlds" interpretation.

@daverobson3084

3 жыл бұрын

At least, this YOU does.