Electron spin explained: Imagine a ball that is rotating, except it's not a ball and it's not rotating.

@greensombrero3641

2 жыл бұрын

this is the best

@maxsamarin9002

2 жыл бұрын

:)

@truthisthenewhatespeech9572

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@samslara

2 жыл бұрын

I fully understand now.

@sams9117

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but the ball has to spin twice

Finally an explanation of why you have to rotate USB plugs twice before they'll go in!

@SantiagoItzcoatl

Жыл бұрын

sounds like a joke, but it is actually true!

@bad-bunnyblogger8171

Жыл бұрын

@@SantiagoItzcoatl Because we're not conscious of it's position. Double slit experiment or Schrödinger's cat. Once you look and become conscious of it's position only then is it 100% until then it stays 50/50...Perhaps?

@Skiddla

Жыл бұрын

brilliant

@russhamilton3800

Жыл бұрын

This is freakishly true!

@mikeroberts9299

Жыл бұрын

@@bad-bunnyblogger8171 I've always hated the Schrodingers cat thing but it might be true in this case. Got me racking my brain on this one. Now plugging a USB in will never be the same.

Basically, the Electron doesn't have Angular Momentum because it's spinning. It has Angular Momentum because yes. It just checked "yes" in the Angular Momentum option.

@tintweezl

Жыл бұрын

The electron has the inherent property of angular momentum but it's not spinning. Spin describes an effect produced but not a physical cause, an innate cause. It's beautiful man.

@JohnSmendrovac

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely incorrect

@andreyleonel255

Жыл бұрын

@@tintweezl It's just like something being wet without ever having contact with any sort of liquid?

@andreyleonel255

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmendrovac Well, that does not surprises me...

@marshallsweatherhiking1820

Жыл бұрын

For something to spin in the classical sense it has to consist of more than one particle. You need two points to measure an angle. You can tell if a ball is spinning because you feel the friction when you touch it. You can even stop it from spinning by cancelling out its angular momentum. But friction is a macroscopic effect that requires millions of atoms bound together. Because a particle is the smallest division possible there is no actual surface or friction. I think the only analogy would be to have another anti-particle with exact opposite “spin” collide. In the quantum world that just annihilates both particles though. Without spin they can’t even exist.

I feel like a good analogy of spin 1/2 is a mobius strip. The first time around you end up on the other side but go around again and you get to the beginning.

@mikullmac

Жыл бұрын

Or that puzzle of fliping a sphere inside out without creasing.

@kueichenglee7583

8 ай бұрын

thank you

@sedrifarhad

6 ай бұрын

69

@-_.._._--_.-.-_-_-_-...-.-

2 ай бұрын

Bingo!

@johnnyllooddte3415

Ай бұрын

but youre not travelling in a circle and youre not rotating in and out.. besides that,, youre almost correct

Physics: “For that to make sense…” Quantum Mechanics: “I’m gonna stop you right there.”

@wat2206

2 жыл бұрын

lol

@addyguida9905

2 жыл бұрын

*hold my beer*

@andrewwwthebest

2 жыл бұрын

I’m gonna stop you but as soon as I’ll do it I won’t know where

@blinded6502

2 жыл бұрын

@@hyperduality2838 lol

@trangvo5015

2 жыл бұрын

@@hyperduality2838 lmao

7:46 Physicists were excited, but only in discrete amounts, probably.

@aaronreid8375

2 жыл бұрын

Continuous excitement can be hazardous to your health

@solus5317

2 жыл бұрын

Underrated Comment

@Soupy_loopy

2 жыл бұрын

No doubt. I've definitely observed excitement jump from one quantum level to another spontaneously

@Denverian

2 жыл бұрын

they are excited and grounded at the same time. Super!

@keirfarnum6811

2 жыл бұрын

In specific quanta perhaps?

I am living proof of my own quantum theory which states that it's possible to both love quantum mechanics, and hate quantum mechanics at the same time.

@whoprofits2661

Жыл бұрын

I've collapsed into "I hate QM but admit its results" state.

@haraldjorch708

Жыл бұрын

@@whoprofits2661 by the action of which observer?

@whoprofits2661

Жыл бұрын

@@haraldjorch708 Why, myself of course

@coloradolove7957

Жыл бұрын

Until they print your obituary stating that you loved it, collapsing the wave function.

@Zyo117

Жыл бұрын

So you live in a state of both hate and love at the same time until such time as you take a measurement? 😂

I went really fast from "this seems impossible" to "of course this happens" in the mug/cube/sphere part. Great visualisation!

"Electrons are spinning, but for legal reasons, I have to deny that"

@solapowsj25

2 жыл бұрын

Precession to be precise.

@peterparker9286

2 жыл бұрын

Good ONE

@PrinceWesterburg

2 жыл бұрын

At a pub quiz night, one question was "What is the last word in the Bible?" and my mate, who went to Bible class, immediately said "Coincidental." XD

@roncicotte

2 жыл бұрын

@@PrinceWesterburg Of course he was completely wrong. Never take another person's word for anything, especially in a pub.

@CrimsonA1

2 жыл бұрын

The physical law requires that I answer "no."

I really appreciate the determination to not dumb down the subject matter, even though most people (including myself) won’t really get it. There are dozens of channels that will explain quantum mechanics with flawed analogies and misleading visual aids for the sake of accessibility, but the real meat of quantum mechanics isn’t so easily digestible. Quantum mechanics is a confusing and difficult subject, and to present it otherwise is more misleading than helpful.

@iamtheiconoclast3

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. Which is probably why this is the first time I really started to feel like I was able to grasp it.

@khalaq2

2 жыл бұрын

Quite. "Dumbing down" an explanation most often necessitates leaving out important details. Doing that leaves unanswered questions, thus making the explanation less intelligible. It is natural for human beings to be curious, but not everything is within our ability to comprehend.

@TopCityGear

2 жыл бұрын

@@iamtheiconoclast3 ppupp III I I lllllljjjjjli

@plumbusman

2 жыл бұрын

Give it to me straight, doc. No sugar coating!

@graystone2802

Жыл бұрын

@David Bytheway electrical engineering was fantasy class? I just finished quantum II and honestly by the end of perturbation theory I was like wtf am I even learning. The professor uses quantum to do molecular modeling and even said that a lot of quantum simply is too cumbersome or incomplete to really apply with any effectiveness. If anything, quantum is the fantasy physics, at least we can use the whole electrical engineering class to do something lol

I didn't understand everything, but I feel like I'm becoming smarter watching this kind of content. The visualisation of untangable cube was mind-blowing. And the ball exceptionally insane.... Thank you for your great efforts

@cristianjuarez1086

Жыл бұрын

I dont want to be that guy but being smarter is not just knowing things

@RuslanLomaka

Жыл бұрын

@@cristianjuarez1086 you are right

@coscinaippogrifo

Жыл бұрын

@@cristianjuarez1086 Well, in a sense it is a component of it: you can build stuff using the bricks of your acquired knowledge. I think of knowledge as having more tools at the disposal of my brain to build more complex things than my brain would be able to, without. Knowledge is also probably the only thing at your disposal to change a genetically fixed feature (intelligence).

@kuribojim3916

Жыл бұрын

@@cristianjuarez1086Well, you’re being “that guy”. I don’t think the OP was implying that just knowing facts is all there is to “smartness”.

@cristianjuarez1086

Жыл бұрын

@kuribojim3916 nah, data is not the same as information, and having information but being dumb to use it is just an example of how you're wrong

The most stupendous description of anything I've ever listened to. I was lost in the first few seconds, fell asleep twice, and was able to listen to the end with my brain wonderfully confused

Spin is always explained the same way in Physics classes: "Imagine a charged ball spining But it is not a ball, has no charge and doesn't spin"

@SamsaraRevolves

2 жыл бұрын

Students to high school physics teacher: "How does charge work?" Teacher: *head explodes*

@makisekurisu4674

2 жыл бұрын

The isn't really and intuitive way to describe this weird thing, to describe it you'd need a weird explanation like this!

@gardenhead92

2 жыл бұрын

I think it *does* have charge, at least...

@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017

2 жыл бұрын

I thought electrons were negatively charged.

@Familia_nepal_e_ahskanja

2 жыл бұрын

@Kelvin Yes, that comes right after the professor gives up on trying to make sense of what spin intuetively is and go for the shut up and calculate approach that he'll adopt for the rest of the course..

That double spin example was probably the best I've seen.

@nightmareTomek

2 жыл бұрын

And also the weirdest.

Props to this guy for teaching _without blinking_

@WyndhamLyonsRealty

Жыл бұрын

He only blinks when you are not observing him. Until then he is both blinking and not blinking simultaneously.

The short answer starts at 09:15. I love the video, thank you so much! The arm+mug and the ribbon diagram is the best explanation I've seen. Too bad I was stuck with teachers making us memorise numbers of spins years ago. Still thankful to my school education but this is the jam. I hope this is the way they'll teach students later. It's so much easier to understand than some random number and static diagram.

@suecondon1685

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, at that point I got it, thank you for the timestamp! I don't get anything else, but that little bit with the ribbons is amazing!

@civotamuaz5781

Жыл бұрын

Dq

@patrickday4206

Жыл бұрын

It's the only thing I don't like about his videos I like the simple explanation then going into the complex!

@mja2239

Жыл бұрын

Teachers taught you this in school?

@samelis6546

Жыл бұрын

@@mja2239 It was a higher cert, so something similar to an extra grade after high school (hs) or pre-university. It was done at a hs and considered hs, that's why I said school.

So USB type A connections are Spinors, gotcha.

@aidanklobuchar1798

2 жыл бұрын

No, the joke is that they're spin 1 particles. You try it, flip it, try it, and then flip it again.

@selforganisation

2 жыл бұрын

No. Rather, they are in quantum superposition of two states (up or down) and they collapse to one when you measure it (try to plug in).

@Ethan_Simon

2 жыл бұрын

@@selforganisation Unfortunately the always seem to collapse to the undesired state.

@harmsc12

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ethan_Simon Am I the only one who looks at the plug and socket before trying to connect them?

@Ethan_Simon

2 жыл бұрын

@@harmsc12 I don't know. I just have the habit of plugging it in ASAP. I could rationalize and say that it takes less time to fail and try again than to look and see which was is correct before plugging it in.

9:59 - Matt: "So, think of electrons as being connected to all other points in the universe by invisible..." Me: "I got it! I got it! Strings! Like the theory!" Matt: "...strands."

@atimholt

2 жыл бұрын

Probably why they chose a different word.

@AxionSmurf

2 жыл бұрын

Same. lol

@helloworld610

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing in nature is that easy...There's always a 'huh' moment after every 'aha' one... :)

@airnidzo

2 жыл бұрын

Funny :)

@eltodesukane

2 жыл бұрын

see: the strand conjecture (strands with rational tangles, not strings)

9:30 for those wondering how this is possible, the trick is that any specific ribbon goes up on one turn, and down on the next. Thus, its orientation with respect to the cube alternates, and so it undoes its previous twist. Same idea with the arm holding a cup.

Infinite knots within the universe, perfectly woven.

Slow clap for whoever made the spinning electron visuals.

@dan7291able

2 жыл бұрын

it just blew my mind... finally an actual visual that can help explain why its NOT actually spinning lmao

@DanielW607

2 жыл бұрын

@@dan7291able time stamp?

@stansburygreg

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I was thinking. That took some time and knowledge regardless of how strong their ability. Also, really cool visual explanation!

@dan7291able

2 жыл бұрын

@@DanielW607 9:49

@TheARN44

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrFedX quaternions are neat

i perfectly understood everything until the first sentence

@ronnielaw9318

2 жыл бұрын

I understood the whole thing, he's just reading from the Star Trek technobabble bible that Scotty and LaForge use. For example, if you were paying attention, his condition is the result of a horrible transporter accident. His quantum spin function was thrown out of phase by 360 degrees during transport by the phase inducers and now he's Australian.

@Jay-ho9io

2 жыл бұрын

You and I are in perfect agreement with each other. 👍🏽😶🤦🏽‍♂️🤣

@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447

2 жыл бұрын

@Walter Morris why such a specific number?

@dirkbastardrelief

2 жыл бұрын

The more information you learn about a subject, the less certain you can be that it’s true. That’s the Donald exclusion principle.

@mvsk9956

2 жыл бұрын

Great... I'll join you to understand everything... Atleast till the 1st sentence...

Sometimes I think this channel needs a channel to explain this channel.

This was properly painful, and I want to suffer even more from this in future episodes. 🧠

@michaeltodd6731

8 ай бұрын

Pain is a catalyst, necessary for perpetuating the outcome that is growth :)

@BrexitMapMan

4 ай бұрын

I got 'entanglement' in my brain cells listtening to this 🤣

"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." . -Richard Feynman, Nobel-prize-winning 20th Century quantum physicist

@divinegon4671

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha Omg that’s SOOO ironic!!

@perlindholm4129

2 жыл бұрын

Its self learned machine learning - My guess.

@mknone40

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, who died 33 years ago. You example is stupid. This way you can also say that electric motor or generator or radio cannot exist because Christian Oersted could not see all this available.

@tmoore121

2 жыл бұрын

@@mknone40 Feynman was right then and the statement still stands. We understand a lot about quantum mechanics but no one understands how the things we "know" to be true of quantum mechanics align with what we know to be true about general relativity. If anyone truly understood the physics underlying the quantum work then we would already have a theory of everything. The fact that physicists cannot reconcile quantum mechanics with general relativity is itself proof that we do not understand how either work very well.

@scottwhitman9868

2 жыл бұрын

@@tmoore121 its more that quantan mechanics is so alien to our thinking that no one truly understands it on an intuitive level. Its sort of like higher dimensions, we can solve problems and do math but we will never have a geometric intuition about it like in 2 or 3 dimensions.

PBS: "Sounds reasonable, right?" Me, knowing nothing about anything: "....n.. y.... ye.... Yes? ...! ?"

@digitalmouse3314

2 жыл бұрын

I sort of understanding it from going lighting and shaders in games but yeah even though I use the calculations I have trouble wrapping my head around it. Oh, that's the algorithm for refraction ok if you say so seems to work lol.

@innocentbystander3317

2 жыл бұрын

Sheldon: I don't know why it works this way, but this way is the only way it works... Leonard: I can confirm this, it does work for some reason. Howard: Well, ok, whatever you say guys. Ill just do it that way then. Raj: ... Penny: Still? Omg, I need a drink...

@sathanimations1457

2 жыл бұрын

you know enough to know what you don't know. That's something you know about :D

@atomictraveller

2 жыл бұрын

dang, one day maybe we can learn epistemology, and we finally can stop knowing anything except then we'd be thinking and the masons would have to tell everyone you're a meth addict

Unapologetically obscure content presented as lay-accessible stories. Love it.

Intellectually challenging but wonderfully well presented and fascinating video which has given me my first real glimpse into what spinors are about. Please let's have lots more of these.

brain: don't watch it ur not gonna understand it me: *watches anyways*

@Nippleless_Cage

2 жыл бұрын

brain: i told you so

@tres-2b299

2 жыл бұрын

You: misses 15 seconds of the video Rest of the video: X Æ A-12那是

@theobolt250

2 жыл бұрын

Formulated like that: watch it ur gonna understand it? 😄

@davidlee50

2 жыл бұрын

I'll bet he had you reach out to a star and hold it....as he was speaking.

@benschebella673

2 жыл бұрын

Every damn time.

Bosons: " Hey fermions wanna come to the party?" Fermions: "How about no."

@chaosordeal294

2 жыл бұрын

Fermions: "La la la la la - I can't hear you."

@nikoglucina4173

2 жыл бұрын

@Armenias Thunk then why do they smell so bad?

@shutupimlearning

2 жыл бұрын

Cooper Pairs: "Am I cool enough to come?"

@hartunstart

2 жыл бұрын

@@nikoglucina4173 No way, nuclear bomb is a lie (in this context).

@nikoglucina4173

2 жыл бұрын

@@hartunstart damn. I'm typing on a lie right now 🤥

I appreciate this channel so much. Thank you for all of the hard work and wonderful explanations!

Electron interview : -Hello, do you spin ? -No -Ok, you don’t spin then -No, but I have spin ???

It's not the electron spinning now, it is my head.

@helloworld610

2 жыл бұрын

Technically your head also has electrons..

@PhilHibbs

2 жыл бұрын

…and yet your head had no classical rotation. Hmmm…

@glarynth

2 жыл бұрын

Better spin it again. Always watch Spacetime in pairs.

@MrWildbill

2 жыл бұрын

@@helloworld610 -- true but as he pointed out, they are not spinning :)

@innocentbystander3317

2 жыл бұрын

That's called conservation of momentum, MrWildbill47. 😂🤣😂

I love it when Matt breaks the rules of causality and goes so fast that he becomes Gabe.

@Joyexer

2 жыл бұрын

The biggest of Gabes ~ Heromarine.

@kwisin1337

2 жыл бұрын

I really miss Gabe. His speed was only tied by his sheer pleasure to explain. o7 Gabe, long live your youtube presents.

@badnamebro

2 жыл бұрын

Naw Gabe sucks he's just jealous space time became a thing

this cup practical example is quite cool. i noticed while the mug towards itself stays spinning in the same direction. but you add an aditional angle as well with the 2nd rotation to free yourself. so technically its the principle of changing phase in a wavelength with same amplitude height. and overlay them. when you untwist the 2nd wave starts. but not before that point in time. we see this as proof when the cup shows its opening so we can see its inside bottom towards us 09:28. while at start the opening was not seen to the viewer. meaning it gives also proof that electrones should understood in 3 dimensions to grasp this better. spin can be applied not only in a specific direction horizontally understood. but also vertical and diagonal. depending on how you tilt its axis. an EM field can influence and change angles that way. this explains the magnet experiment and change of direction as an effect, quite well. in this sense i would say you can understand spinning in left or right direction as one of the poles. while spinning that happens towards a change of axis. as the other of the poles for North and Southpole principle. i wonder how this would change the view for this chessboard design ball's spin. cause its only spinning in one direction horizontically. what if we add also axis tilt spinning as well.

that's amazing, and it highlights one of the most fundamental parts of all of science, that we are never observing the concepts in question, but their interactions with our sensors and each other

Man whoever does the 3D graphics and animations for this channel is amazing.

@rheticus5198

2 жыл бұрын

Always impressive. The animation at 9:30 is fantastic. This is a really nice description of spin.

@karkunow

2 жыл бұрын

@@rheticus5198 i guess that is a common known animation from wikipedia.

@JasonHise64

2 жыл бұрын

I donated the Wikipedia animations to the public domain a few years back. Was super cool to find them featured here!

@simonmultiverse6349

2 жыл бұрын

@@rheticus5198 I originally saw that spin video with lots of tendrils, which kept moving and didn't get tied in knots, in www.quantamagazine.org/ at least a couple of years ago. I haven't been able to find it again, but maybe I should look again.

@Ottmar555

2 жыл бұрын

@@JasonHise64 Loved the article you shared on twitter about this topic. Is there more recent work you know of?

im 12mins in and this explained a lot more about spinors and angular position to me than 2 takes of introduction to nuclear magnetic resonance. much thanks!

@fattyMcGee97

2 жыл бұрын

What I love about this show is that it takes university level subjects and makes them digestible to anyone with a low level physics background. It’s wonderful

@theecat3689

2 жыл бұрын

@@fattyMcGee97 ill take your word for it (or ill find out as I watch more of their videos)! im not really a follower of this channel and my background is in plants and biochemistry... quantum physics just flies over my head 😭 even tho it was discussed in my university classes and its in the text books, its so difficult to digest :') very thankful for channels like this that help by providing different narratives or better visualizations (sorry for semi unloading there was a deleted comment about how i must be lying about not understanding something like this because it just takes 2 pages in a physics book and how could i not understand it after taking "complex" classes 🤣😭)

@SomethingImpromptu

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I’ve listened to Roger Penrose talks on spinors & they were pretty much incomprehensible for a layperson. This was much more helpful.

@innocentbystander3317

2 жыл бұрын

I knew a spinner once, and she was pretty cool. Ended up learning nothing about spin though, so figured it was a matter of time before this video was made.

@JivanPal

2 жыл бұрын

@Thee Cat, nuclear magnetic resonance does not really have anything to do with spin angular momentum, so I'm not sure if/why you expect a course on NMR to delve into the details of spin.

Excellent stuff please keep posting content like this👌

9:43 oh my goodness this is what I've been missing! that's a mental image I can work with

At least I understand why physicists say "the electron has spin" and not "the electron spins". Or do I?

@phxcppdvlazi

2 жыл бұрын

"Hey, vsauce, Michael here!"

@KB4QAA

2 жыл бұрын

To paraphrase Drew Carey: "Quantum Physics, where the names are made up and the forces aren't real."

@michaelholloway8

2 жыл бұрын

I hear that.

@vacuumdiagrams652

2 жыл бұрын

The electron "spins" suggests that it might stop spinning, or that it didn't have to spin. But spin is _intrinsic_ to the electron, can't be removed from it. So 'has spin' is actually a rather strong statement: it's a property of the electron as much as mass or electric charge.

@arctic_haze

2 жыл бұрын

I think you got it!

Whenever i think I'm smart I watch Spacetime...brings me right down to earth....faster than the speed of light

@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely 😁

@i-never-look-at-replies-lol

2 жыл бұрын

Someone in the comments: "technically if you returned to Earth at the speed of light your energy would destroy the entire planet on impact even as a tiny human"

@tusharkantimalakar4848

2 жыл бұрын

Also energy that you will require to do that will only turn you into photons or disintegrate you into energy

@marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938

2 жыл бұрын

If you could travel at the speed of light...you couldn't...because your mass would be infinite...😁

@-_deploy_-

11 ай бұрын

technically if you returned to Earth at the speed of light your energy would destroy the entire planet on impact even as a tiny human

Excellent video. Very interesting, informative and worthwhile video .

I'm glad this was broken down by showing the *_first principles_* of how it was discovered through the experiments. Tons of other videos don't even bother doing that which makes it way more confusing than it needs to be.

This man was my professor in ASTRONOMY 101 at Lehman College,New York. He's really good!

@harishthethird

2 жыл бұрын

Good for you😌👍🏼

@visheshreddy4293

2 жыл бұрын

It must be really fun listening to this dude while also understanding every word he says!

@harishthethird

2 жыл бұрын

@@visheshreddy4293 xD ikr

@RichardAlsenz

2 жыл бұрын

He is also wrong:?)

@matthewpeterson4128

2 жыл бұрын

@@RichardAlsenz just for my own understanding, what parts wrong?

Video: “Vectors are just arrows pointing in a direction.” My math prof: [almost gets a heart attack]

@mhorram

2 жыл бұрын

Well no, it should be your English prof or your logic prof who might appropriately 'almost get a heart attack'. In the case of the English prof the statement would be a redundancy and therefore very poor use of the language. In the case of the logic prof the statement would be a tautology. All arrows have to point in a direction; can't be otherwise (unless the arrowhead is removed, I suppose). However, keep in mind that one discipline is not 'authorized' to take a previously defined concept and redefine it for its own purposes and claim that is the sole use of the term. This has been done. I have heard astronomers argue that Greeks 'misused' the term planets. Strange to make that claim. The English word planets is based on the Greek word (Latinized) _planetes_ which means wanderer. The Greeks were using this word quite appropriately to designate objects in the sky that moved (i.e. they were not stationary stars) but modern scientists in one of the biggest brain-farts in history and one of the greatest anachronisms ever used in logic were wrong (don't ever let an astrophysicist tell you history). All of this brings us to what Matt said and I would say he is right and your poor Math prof would be wrong. Have a look at the following explanation of Vector (the article does point out that there is a difference in the term Vector when used in physics as opposed to mathematics. As I said, one discipline can't appropriate a definition for its own purposes and require that to be the only definition acceptable.) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_vector I also recall what I was taught (more than 50 years ago) that velocity was vectored speed. I.e., velocity has an arrow (of direction) speed doesn't.

@amitwatcher12

2 жыл бұрын

The word vector is used for a bunch of different things depending on context. Here it was used as a short hand for "the vector representation of the rotation group".

@innocentbystander3317

2 жыл бұрын

Almost is still quantified as zero heart attacks, right? Also, I don't understand how having a heart attack would he regarded as a viable math-proof. Tell your professor to try harder next time, lol! Yeah, science be brutal like that. Zero fraks given for feelings (aka biases), just based AF.

@Erotemic

2 жыл бұрын

Why? He doesn't say anything about the dimensionality of the space. I suppose you might include that they have a magnitude as well as a direction. But assuming n-dimensions space, I think that's a fine description.

@selforganisation

2 жыл бұрын

Because in the context of Euclidean geometry, they are. Though IIRC angular momentum is a pseudovector.

This is why I always told my pupils "Electrons have a property that we call spin, but it's just a convenient label, so we can say that one is opposite to another." Of course, then we had to go on and treat spin as though it meant something!

@annaclarafenyo8185

2 жыл бұрын

That's exactly wrong. The spin of the electron is just like the spin of a bicycle wheel, if you switch the spin of the electron it can transfer its angular momentum to the bicycle wheel. The electron is actually spinning, except it doesn't have a size.

@jmckendry84

2 жыл бұрын

@@annaclarafenyo8185 no, you are exactly wrong. Electrons are *not* actually spinning in a similar fashion to the bicycle wheel.

@annaclarafenyo8185

2 жыл бұрын

@@jmckendry84 They are exactly spinning in the manner of a bicycle wheel, except without internal moving parts. You can transfer their spin to the wheel simply by flipping a magnetic field around the (iron) bicycle wheel, which flips all the magnetic-electron spins, and sets the wheel spinning a small but measurable amount, this is the extremely famous Einstein de-Haas experiment. The ONLY reason people don't say the electron is literally spinning is because it has no moving parts. If the spin was due to moving parts, it would have to be integer spin, not spin 1/2, and it would require superluminal speed for the parts. But aside from having no moving parts, the electron spin is exactly the same as a bicycle wheel.

@TheDarkblue57

Жыл бұрын

@@annaclarafenyo8185 "But aside from having no moving parts, the electron spin is exactly the same as a bicycle wheel." Understand what you're saying but surely you can see the irony with this statement as a bicycle wheel is in fact a 'moving part'.

@annaclarafenyo8185

Жыл бұрын

@@TheDarkblue57 "Spin without moving parts" is very easy to understand. "Spin is magic and quantum and has no classical analog" is not only false, but highly misleading, because quantum electron spin and quantum bicycle wheel spin are the same sort of thing, the only difference appears when you look inside to see what parts are moving.

This is the first time I see the experiment of the iron rod rotating when exposed to a magnetic field, and it's the first time I finally understand what brought physicists to call it spin. Hours and hours of videos, and what this "angular momentum" they were talking about has been made apparent to me only now.

How about next episode: "What's Charge"

@LuisAldamiz

2 жыл бұрын

Good one.

@ChayComas

2 жыл бұрын

Charge is 4.99, cash or credit?

@TheJCJexe

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'd like to know.

@caixiuying8901

2 жыл бұрын

the thing Cardi B catches

@peoplesrepublicofunitedear2337

2 жыл бұрын

Yes yes yes yes yes

Halfway through this excellent presentation, my head felt like it was spinning, except it was not otherwise I would have entangled myself in knots unless I remembered to rotate completely around twice. Time for a Baileys on ice!

@English_Lessons_Pre-Int_Interm

2 жыл бұрын

I need to vapourize some herbs too, because I have stomach problems.

@RichardAlsenz

2 жыл бұрын

You do realize the spinning continued and will for a long time:?) We are all entwined in Gauss's Gordian Space Knot. As long as we believe space is measurable we are on a roll. Gauss warned us.

@julianshepherd2038

2 жыл бұрын

@@RichardAlsenz that's not really helping the nausea

@RichardAlsenz

2 жыл бұрын

@@julianshepherd2038 Just - stop and take a deep breath, then realize indefinite means to not definitely know. To role around once does not give one the ability to define infinitely know.

@RichardAlsenz

2 жыл бұрын

In reality, the start of its spin can not be known precisely until one of its revolutions has occurred and then only within approximations. Heisenberg can be certain of that:?) So, blame him for add-nausea.

Thanks! This was the first time that the coffee mug analogy made sense to me.

That bike wheel demonstration at the beginning is amazing. I've never seen that before.

I keep thinking "Yeah, I understand the fundamentals, you know, the basic stuff" and then PBS tosses me a new video to watch and I realize I know practically nothing.

@standardranchstash221

2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was just me.

@brokenlegs8431

2 жыл бұрын

Dunning and Kruger, when I was young I learned about them and from them I learned to always assume myself incompetent

@twentylush

Жыл бұрын

i feel like the QM dunning kruger graph is just an exponential decay approaching 0 on the confidence scale

Gabe! Haven't seen him in a while!

@Agrantar

2 жыл бұрын

I know right? It's good to see him, he was great in his own right (Matt obviously is great as well)

@MadCowOnFire

2 жыл бұрын

Right! I saw him and actually pointed at the screen. It's been to long.

@ashishl5805

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought!!!

@whatfireflies

2 жыл бұрын

Gabe taught me do much on this channel! Thank you Gabe

@GameCyborgCh

2 жыл бұрын

quantum tunneled from the past to the present to make a guest appearance in this video

quantum spin explanation is like when cop frisky you, cuffs you, puts you in locked patrol vehicle, and tells you are NOT under arrest.

My next question would be - if electrons don’t “spin” in the conventional sense like we’ve been taught, then how does this quantum spin/spinner with multiple directionality reconcile with the concepts of “up spin” and “down spin” directionality?

@MattMcIrvin

Жыл бұрын

It's still the direction of the angular momentum vector. This may not correspond to a classical rotating object but it IS angular momentum, just like that of a spinning ball--angular momentum is only conserved if you include it--and it exhibits phenomena like precession. It's even possible to express it in terms of a circulating energy/momentum density that is a function of the electron field--this is something Belinfante figured out in the 1930s. It's just that the momentum circulates around the borders of the particle's wave packet, rather than in some sense within the particle.

@Dr.MikeGranato

Жыл бұрын

@@MattMcIrvin Makes more sense now, thank you for your insights

@stephen7774

Жыл бұрын

They do spin. Its just a trick of the intellectual elites to maintain power, status and control over the masses to insist that electrons don't spin. By creating a difficulty where none exists they preserve their air of superiority over the simpleton masses who are too stupid to understand such lofty concepts. lol.

@pedropina8999

Жыл бұрын

It’s to distuinguish the tipe of polarization on the magntic field

@avanimajithiain6235

10 ай бұрын

Actually up spin and down spin have no classical analogue in real world..

I watch these videos when I can't sleep. The journeys that these subjects takes me to is so comforting. We are so lucky to live in a time where we can begin to understand our reality. It feels like being a billionaire

@Beamshipcaptain

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed yes, Sir! We are lucky to be us, at this time in Earth-history.

@eden4949

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. It's became a routine of some sort..

@ConnerOfRS

2 жыл бұрын

It feels like learning the lore of a mysterious game in alpha that the community hasn't quite figured out yet.

@xyzzyi5315

2 жыл бұрын

Except with less personal space travel, and a lot, lot less money.

@gbennett58

2 жыл бұрын

I am sure it is re-assuring to assume that at least someone somewhere is beginning to understand our reality. I'm still in the dark.

When he says, "Sounds reasonable!" We're like, "Yeah, totally!"

@cosmic_gate476

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@gok46

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, don't understand why it's reasonable. Why would having a dipole moment allow split into three levels only?? :S

@alexandermartin1837

2 жыл бұрын

I recommend you the exoplanets channel

The cube rotating made me nauseous, but the sphere rotating made me so dizzy that I nearly fell off my seat! It wasn't because of watching the movement, it was because I had an internal construct in my mind's eye that replaced my gyroscope for a second 🤢

I've rewatched the spinning cube dozens of times and it doesn't compute for me how it doesn't tangle or get more and more twisted.

Thank you so much for this video. I've been a physics professor for years but had never seen spinors explained as you do in the video with the bands connecting the electrons to the space-time fabric. I just kind of accepted it as a weird QM feature that was mathematically accounted for by the imaginary nature of the phase. I had figured there was no physical analog for it at all. So your tea cup analogy animated graphics were an eye opener for me. The graphics were still hard for me to see until I slowed down the video and created screen shots at 0, 360, and 720 degrees of rotation. wow. just wow. Just a great way to visually see how this works.

@flamealchemy7964

2 жыл бұрын

It's an OK theory. How anything can be derived from having no real images of electrons or photons is more interesting than the theory itself... My profile picture you see is a real photon, photons assemble into a disc like structure which I also have acquired images and videos of and without recognition I am having a lot of fun with what comes of this type of research and experimentation.

@BboyKeny

2 жыл бұрын

@@flamealchemy7964 But isn't that picture only possible through theories upon theories used in practice?

@johnboze

2 жыл бұрын

A "spinor" is really just a few trillion EM Dipole Particles from the EM "field" caught in a condensing Vortex just short of liquification into a Bose Einstein Condensate of EM Dipole Particles that have a mass of about ~~10^(-90) to 10^(-93) kg each. There are about 10^(72) EM dipole Particles per cubic meter of vacuum with a total mass of 10^(-18) kg of EM dipoles in each cubic meter the vacuum in our solar system all moving at an RMS velocity of "c". THIS IS DARK MASS AND ENERGY. It is just the EM Field Dipoles. The EM field is a Bose Gas of Planck sized EM Dipole Particles. Already proven to be real and the fill the vacuum to form what u call the EM Field.

@byoshizaki1025

2 жыл бұрын

Wrong. QM is a relic of 100 years of backwards metaphysical thinking. Electrons are infinitesimally thin shells with complex supercurrent surface motion which gives rise to spin. All quantum characteristics can be fully modeled classically with ZERO need of any of the nonsensical self-contradictory quantum mechanics hocus pocus bullpoo.

@BboyKeny

2 жыл бұрын

@@byoshizaki1025 Is there any name or model to that theory, maybe like a drawing or something?

Everything's better with classically non-describably two-valuedness.

@flaparoundfpv8632

2 жыл бұрын

Worked for Prince.

@matroqueta6825

2 жыл бұрын

You classically non-describably two-value me 'right round baby, right 'round Like an electron baby right 'round, right 'round

@rstoeckler

2 жыл бұрын

guess it sounds better in german

@cineblazer

2 жыл бұрын

@@matroqueta6825 I love that the "right rounds" come in pairs of two since it's describing a fermion lol.

@kwisin1337

2 жыл бұрын

What about fouredvalveness. Automotive got that down pat...

that animation reminds me of a Mobius strip. in that one rotation causes a half twist and a full gets you back to the start.

Interesting how the properties of things seem to be able to exist on their own even though to make sense to us they have to be inextricably linked to other properties of such things, it’s like nature actually allows for the smile of the cheshire cat to detache from the cat itself and exist on its own, this makes for the possibilities of manipulation of things quite literally mind-blowing, it’s like very bizarre fantasia-like worlds can actually become true one day. 7:10

16:10 "the low GRAVITATIONAL entropy MASSIVELY outWEIGHed the MATTER entropy". What a confusing choice of words 😱🤣

The biggest issue I have with understanding physics is that certain words mean very specific things in physics that may or may not correlate with the common definition of a word

@tubester358

2 жыл бұрын

kinda true, probably because the "common definition" of words changes according to common use lol. Science needs its definitions to be more precise so the same experiments/simulations can be repeated anywhere & get the same results, thinking like that I think the reduced ambiguity in the definitions makes it easier to build onto your understanding over time

@themeatpopsicle

2 жыл бұрын

@@tubester358 oh indeed. It's just more difficult to understand if you don't have the glossary at hand :)

@SpotterVideo

2 жыл бұрын

Quantum Entangled Twisted Tubules: When we draw a sine wave on a blackboard, we are representing spatial curvature. Does a photon transfer spatial curvature from one location to another? Wrap a piece of wire around a pencil and it can produce a 3D coil of wire, much like a spring. When viewed from the side it can look like a two-dimensional sine wave. You could coil the wire with either a right-hand twist, or with a left-hand twist. Could Planck's Constant be proportional to the twist cycles. A photon with a higher frequency has more energy. (More spatial curvature). What if gluons are actually made up of these twisted tubes which become entangled with other tubes to produce quarks. (In the same way twisted electrical extension cords can become entangled.) Therefore, the gluons are actually a part of the quarks. Mesons are made up of two entangled tubes (Quarks/Gluons), while protons and neutrons would be made up of three entangled tubes. (Quarks/Gluons) The "Color Force" would be related to the XYZ coordinates (orientation) of entanglement. "Asymptotic Freedom", and "flux tubes" make sense based on this concept. Neutrinos would be made up of a twisted torus (like a twisted donut) within this model. Gravity is a result of a very small curvature imbalance within atoms. (This is why the force of gravity is so small.) Instead of attempting to explain matter as "particles", this concept attempts to explain matter more in the manner of our current understanding of the space-time curvature of gravity. If an electron has qualities of both a particle and a wave, it cannot be either one. It must be something else.

@maurice2572

2 жыл бұрын

That actually is true to all and every science field

@qwadratix

2 жыл бұрын

That's really the fault of 'common usage', not physics. I don't think there's a word used in physics that doesn't have the same use in ordinary conversation though. It's just that common use may have other meanings that are sloppy and most definitely NOT physically correct. Think of the word 'energy' that gets used in the most bizarre ways outside of physics. In physics, it's a very rigid, mathematical term with only one meaning. 'Gravity' is another one, especially when applied to people. Then there's 'weight', which gets abused all the time. In fact, many 'discoveries' in physics were actually a realization that people had failed to recognise that ordinary language being applied was in fact sloppy and vague. Einstein's discovery of special relativity was exactly that. He was led to question the word 'simultaneous' and try to work out what it actually meant. The truth was a real surprise, that it doesn't exist.

"Electrons DO NOT Spin" Yes, but it is a good way help explain some of their behavior in an understandable way. Maybe it should be called electron splefle.

You explain this so easy to understand, thank you for the presentation

@feltonite

Жыл бұрын

Were we watching the same video?

That animation broke my brain.

@debbiehenri345

2 жыл бұрын

It's pretty incredible. All the while it's happening your mind is thinking - won't end well, won't end well, oh - it does. What did I miss - and when? This would make a calming, hypnotic visual for babies - in the hope they can grow up to explain electron spin but non-spin to their parents.

@AmryL

2 жыл бұрын

@@debbiehenri345 I literally took 2 belts, linked them together with a clip and wedged each end in opposite doors. It took a few tries, but it is possible to turn the clip a full 720 degrees and unwind the belts; the trick to to move the first belt over, the other under. Then when going for round 2, move the first belt Under, the other Over.

@aleisterlavey9716

2 жыл бұрын

So.... are you related to those crystal skulls then?

@dan7291able

2 жыл бұрын

@@AmryL would you CUT IT OUT dude..youre gonna implode the universe or something, put the belt AWAY

Does that mean that USB connectors are spinors?

@JasonHise64

2 жыл бұрын

But that leads to the pathological result that USB-C connectors are bosons!

@KekusMagnus

2 жыл бұрын

based

@truthisthenewhatespeech9572

2 жыл бұрын

@@KekusMagnus 🤣🤣🤣

@Vasharan

2 жыл бұрын

Except the way to orient a USB-A cable is typically to rotate it left-right-left, so I think it needs its own special class of mathematics.

@paulmichaelfreedman8334

2 жыл бұрын

@@JasonHise64 Actually its the other way round, USB C is spin 1/2 = fermion, and the others are spin 1 = boson

That's very interresting! My knowledge must be entangled with yours, because I understand, what you're talking about. 😉 It's a really clear explanation!!!

I suppose the "Noter theorem" referenced in the subtitles at about 10:33 actually is Emmy Noether's first theorem about conservation of quantities arising from symmetry properties.

An impressive amount of information packed into a mere 18 minutes.

@redberries8039

2 жыл бұрын

I haven't got 18mins so ..what do electron do if they DO NOT Spin?

Electrons: “I’ll try spinning, that’s a good trick!”

@arpitdas4263

2 жыл бұрын

Now this is pod racing

@adityaruplaha

2 жыл бұрын

I simply can't get away from Star Wars references and I love it.

@Kid_Naps

2 жыл бұрын

joke swift like a knife, I love it

@Sin526

2 жыл бұрын

@@hyperduality2838 Duality is perhaps the _most_ fundamental of all universal properties

@qjo5158

2 жыл бұрын

This is where the fun begins...

I love your explanation, just what I needed, thank you.

@oldpariah

2 жыл бұрын

Me 2. Check out kzread.info/dash/bejne/d3-TmLGziqTOZc4.html

Magnetic spider, what an entanglement webs it weaves when it spooky action quantum spinor. Love the video

I was incredibly confused about the idea of spin in a point-sized onject, until I realized it was just a nonsense term.

@Quantum-

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome to every term given to every object or phenom in physics.

@Frankly7

2 жыл бұрын

It's not completely nonsense though. Quantum spin still has an effect on classical angular momentum, that's why we call it spin to begin with.

@cageybee7221

2 жыл бұрын

Quantum Angle might have been a better name tbh

@letsomethingshine

2 жыл бұрын

@@cageybee7221 wouldn't "angle" imply that there is no "inertia-like state" to affect "momentum-like" circular activities?

@cageybee7221

2 жыл бұрын

@@letsomethingshine _quantum angular momentum_ sounds like a spell but i guess it would be even more accurate. edit: spelling

Its my goal in life to make it through an entire one of this videos, without confusion. Not there yet.

If my mind wasn't totally blown up by this video, I could say "wooooooooooow". Glad to see videos like this out there for us to see.

Love the description of spinors... Reminds me of Hellraiser box. You opened the box...we came.

Amazing video. *PBS Space Time, Isaac Arthur, and The Exoplanets Channel are my favorite channels.*

@shoemakerx0105

2 жыл бұрын

You forgot anton petrov

@The_SOB_II

2 жыл бұрын

Commenting this early... You definitely didn't finish it. Did you start it?

@meller7303

2 жыл бұрын

I like astrum too

@callumgibson9167

2 жыл бұрын

Try Event Horizon, and John Michael-Godier. Although you're probably well aware if you frequent Isaac Arthur's channel.

@theMightywooosh

2 жыл бұрын

Cool worlds also

The most interesting part was that 720° rotation. Totally surprised!! 🙀

@jb6748

2 жыл бұрын

Loved the animations.

@dimlighty

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I never thought it that way. Quantum physics is amazing and weird.

@rocktakesover

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. Last time I was that blown away I learned about the double slit experiment 15(ish?) Years ago

@cliftut

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone's cool until geometry does a triple pirouette off the handle.

@halamish1

2 жыл бұрын

When cars still had mechanical distributors you had to rotate them through 720 degrees (two rotations) to return to the original position because the engine was 4 stroke

Fascinating presentation!! What are these ‘ribbons’ that connect to Spinners? Are they a field like gravity or a manifestation of space-time?

@isaacsharp9026

2 жыл бұрын

Magnetism?

@hannahbolton7586

Жыл бұрын

Well, the ribbons don’t actually exist. It’s a way to conceptualize or visualize how spinning it 720° (or twice) will return the electron to its original state.

9:34 That is the craziest animation I've seen in a long time; I would not have easily believed such a structure possible.

"whatever crazy theory we haven't figured out yet." priceless. I want a t-shirt with that on it. love it.

@heremate2435

2 жыл бұрын

Me want t-shirt with cheesy quote on

I love the humorous comments, BUT I also respect the serious investigators, theorists and mathematicians who have worked for well over a century to provide an understanding of our universe.

Richard Feynman: “If someone tells you they understand quantum mechanics, then all you’ve learned is that you’ve met a liar.”

@derekmyers3258

2 жыл бұрын

The key is, if you understand it, don't tell anybody, and life is a breeze.

Really enjoyed this and the great animations, too!

I didn't even understand why his arm didn't fall off.

@LuisSierra42

2 жыл бұрын

Cause it is spinning

@AmryL

2 жыл бұрын

Try it for yourself; first the cup goes under your arm, then over your head.

@aleisterlavey9716

2 жыл бұрын

Cyborg enhancement.

@spacedoohicky

2 жыл бұрын

He just turned his wrist which oddly looked like a contortion.

@Flobbled

2 жыл бұрын

It's pretty easy to do. Just practice with an empty cup and work towards keeping it pointing up.

“Trust the science!” “Imagine a spinning ball except it’s not a ball and it’s not spinning.”

@innocentbystander3317

2 жыл бұрын

This is what separates humans from ape-descendants. One has a future, one does not. That's evolution, baby!

@innocentbystander3317

2 жыл бұрын

@Thomas A. Anderson Never did call him a monke, I actually think his comment is genius, but who cares what is actually said and the deeper meaning behind it, almost as if you were born to be my "Case-in-point." Congratulations! Darwin says to look both ways before crossing a roundabout; you might be driving.

@martiddy

2 жыл бұрын

Well, without science I wouldn't be able to make this comment on the internet. So I trust science!

@scottydu81

2 жыл бұрын

@@martiddy I’m not saying not to trust science. I’m saying don’t turn scientists into prophets. They are regularly wrong.

@scottydu81

2 жыл бұрын

@Thomas A. Anderson Physicists are fundamentally wrong about at least one aspect of the standard model right now as we speak. Scientists are just as human as you or I and there is no such thing as a purely rational human being. They have the same biases, they are just as susceptible to pride and spite and even greed. So yes, I will mock some of the more bizarre things about the science we have right now.

Good job man. Thanks for the video!

Spin is a way to describe the continuous rotation of a point in space without needing to rip the space structure and then rotate, just geometrically move it in a clever way so that everything keeps connected, and in this case something rotated 360 degrees and and does not need to come back... it can keep on going, but two full turns are needed to undo the twist that a full rotation does

Today's episode is scoring a 7.5 on the mind-blow-o-meter. Many re-watches will be required.

That rotating cube with the ribbons on it is MESSING WITH MY BRAIN.

@janami-dharmam

2 жыл бұрын

Who did the artwork simulation? Does it really work? Why do we use commutators and slip-rings in electrical motors?

The Ohanian idea connecting spin to the "Dirac field" sounds enticingly intuitive for such an unintuitive realm. Would love to see an episode exploring that further!

@MattMcIrvin

Жыл бұрын

I've been evangelizing for that for a while--Belinfante figured it out in the 1930s. Treat the Dirac (or Maxwell) field *as a field*, and you can derive an energy-momentum density corresponding to the spin that is actually swirling around in space. It just doesn't correspond to the moving matter in a spinning ball.

@bumpty9830

Жыл бұрын

That's interetsing, @@MattMcIrvin. Since it works for the Maxwell Field, too, that would probably make a better SpaceTime video (to separate it from the subject of spinors).

@MattMcIrvin

Жыл бұрын

(I think there is even a way to "derive" it nonrelativistically from the Schrödinger equation, using a slightly shady trick invented by Richard Feynman. But that is another story I want to write up in more detail someday.)

@bumpty9830

Жыл бұрын

Is it the Pauli spinor version of the Schroedinger equation you're referring to, @@MattMcIrvin ?

@MattMcIrvin

Жыл бұрын

@@bumpty9830 Yes! Consider it as a field, then canonically derive the space-time symmetrized stress-energy tensor, but interpreting the squared gradient as (grad dot sigma) squared. I *think* you get out Belinfante's spin momentum density in the nonrelativistic limit. Feynman used essentially the same trick to derive g=2 from the gauge substitution. At least according to J. J. Sakurai, but Sakurai never gave a reference. I assume Feynman wrote it on a napkin or something.

Nice video, with hilarious Claude Shannon reference at the very end!

"Spinors are exceptionally weird and cool." Nothing like an accurate description of a thing. I totally understand now.

@rogerfoxtrot4306

2 жыл бұрын

Weirdos please

@l.m.892

2 жыл бұрын

@@rogerfoxtrot4306 Have some spinors.

@andrewfulara5584

2 жыл бұрын

A spinor is the thing between a scalar and a vector. Higgs is scalar field, Fermions are spinor fields, Bosons are vector fields. You can also call them spin 0, 1/2 and 1 fields (from symmetry).

@izdotcarter

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewfulara5584 what

@andrewfulara5584

2 жыл бұрын

@@izdotcarter A 2D object in 3D space is close enough.

This both makes complete sense while being utterly nonsensical… you have me hanging off the edge of my seat for the next episode. I’m fascinated!

@Mr.Opinion

2 жыл бұрын

that is quantum mechanics in a nut shell

@TheZombiesAreComing

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Mr.Opinion Quantum mechanics is an incomplete theory and at the rate it's going, it seems like scientists are attempting to convert it into a non-theistic religion. Think about it, with religion you have the trust the word of scripture to be truth without being able to confirm it for yourself and with quantum mechanics you have to trust the words of scientists you don't even know as truth without having the means to test it for yourself.

@Mr.Opinion

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheZombiesAreComing I agree that Quantum mechanics is not fully complete, just like any other theory. They are just progressively better and better stepping stones of explanation and understanding. I also agree that at times science can become quite dogmatic and therefore religious like. As for your second point, I don't think that can hold up because there are millions of experiments that couldn't be tested for reasons of time, money, equipment, qualification, etc. Its not about faith, its about explanatory power. If your theory helps explain things that other theories can't explain, such as the behavior of subatomic particles (like electrons; which are crucial for understanding chemistry), then there is explanatory power. There are predictions made based on the theory and they seem to hold up against the tests we throw at it. Many people have tried to, but these core theories in physics are hard to falsify in any way.

@DerekHise

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheZombiesAreComing I'd agree that the struggle to make testable predictions is a valid critique of cutting edge theoretical physics, *BUT* I think there is still an important gap distinguishing it from religion. Consider how in 1930, when Wolfgang Pauli was proposing the existence of the neutrino, he said something like, "I have committed the cardinal sin of a theorist... I made a prediction which can never be tested, because this particle is so weakly interacting that it may never be seen." We have since detected them in salt mines shielded from other kinds of cosmic radiation, create them on demand, and send them to other research stations right through the earth's crust. We can now in high confidence that roughly ~400 billion neutrinos pass through your body without interacting with it, every second. But remember that in his day, the idea was thought unproveable. You might argue that until someone invents a test, it is not scientific, and I'd agree. However, the idea was never baseless or unjustified the way faith based religious doctrine is. The neutrino was invented as a necessity born of mathematics. Without it, the decay of specific atomic nuclei would actually violate conservation of energy. Similar to how energy carrying photons are emitted by atoms when electrons fall into smaller orbital shells, the release of weak force energy from decaying atoms suggested either that an unknown virtual particle carrying away miniscule amounts of energy, OR that or energy was spontaneously ceasing to exist. The latter seemed extremely unlikely for an avalanche of reasons. Conservation of energy isn't just an arbitrary rule we've observed, it's implied by the form of the quantum Hamiltonian. Rejecting it destroys unitarity and which would result in FTL signaling. It would suddenly be inconsistent with a ton of different aspects of physics. (Scientific understanding is like a low resolution photograph that starts blurry and keeps getting clearer. Adding resolution may change the picture in subtle ways, but adding detail to a picture of a orange cat won't suddenly change it into a purple unicorn.) Another distinction between blind religious belief, is that the idea was not held as sacred. Scientists hold beliefs in the form of probabilities, not true/false statements. They update their beliefs, shifting them towards "more probable" or "less probable", every time they find new evidence. Pauli did not say "this is true". If anything, was hesitant to publish his idea proposing neutrino before writing his peers to corroborate his findings asking them to scrutinize them. Issues like modern string theory have the same problem. As we dig deeper and deeper, testing is becoming harder and harder. But unlike a religion: 1. No idea is held as beyond scrutiny, 2. Nothing is claimed as absolutely known, and 3. The ideas that have risen to the top really do have strong reasons supporting them. ...Even if the reasoning and concepts are extremely esoteric and opaque to laymen who do not dedicate their lives to studying them for themselves. Granted, that barrier to comprehension begets to deferring to the experts, which is a different problem. Nonetheless, there ARE always answers to the questions "why do physicists credit that idea?" By contrast, when priests tell you what their god(s) want ("Zeus wants you to sacrifice a lamb"), there isn't a rigorous logical process for investigating what they claim to know.

@Dan_Kanerva

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheZombiesAreComing you could have just said : "reading _books about recycled Zeus for jewish , written by fishermen 2000 years ago... is way easier to understand , than professional physics done through centuries of_ research" You would sound far more honest 😂

Every time I watch PBS Spacetime, I'm reminded of how little I know. Yet, I keep watching.

My head was spinning so much from watching this , that I was thrown out of my seat .