You wouldn't learn anything, this is all extremely vague. It's tailored to people who don't care about the exact equations and numbers, but just want to feel inspired, excited and like they've learned something. The moment you have to get into the specifics, history, experiments, many surrounding theories and equations, all under the stress of an upcoming exam, it becomes, for most people, just another tedious and boring stuff to learn. Even if they taught this in in detail in highschool, most people wouldn't really care. Don't underestimate the teachers you have, that are trying to do their best to teach you the basics, keep you in check, stay proffesional, issue tests and exams, conform to guidelines and make a living on top of that.
Imagine him saying this Look at this stick. Imagine this stick as your life. Now imagine every other stick in the world as another life. The plant that grew this stick is your parents. Once the stick falls off the plant, it can go on to make other sticks, thus creating more lives. I dunno.
maybe to show how things collapse because of human selfishness, in this case, seeking for clout, and the app wanting money giving up their fundamental values for money and acceptance
This really motivates me, since I have dreams and hopes of what to do in the future. And I used to think everything was already here, nothing to invent. Now I don't think that anymore.
I understand the uncertainty principle like this: all particles and matter are only wave functions evolving according to the Schrodinger's equation. If we want to know the momentum of the "particle", we would need its frequency, which would require a longer wave. If we want its position, we need a smaller wave. Therefore, we can't know both. It is just that particles fundamentally have no such thing as a precise "momentum" or "position". What we observe is just a sliver of what's possible according to the fundamental wave nature of matter.
I don’t normally watch aperture’s videos for the information because his words tend to go in one ear and out the other. Instead I watch them because it always puts me in some immense peace of mind when he talks over long street shots or photos of the universe.
Bruh, just imagine this guy getting into the specifics, it would be just as hard. This video is made for people who want to feel like they're learning, but in reality, it's just the same 10 vague facts of pop science, rehashed for a millionth time.
First off your voice is so damn soothing, secondly since i turned on notifications I realised that you actually upload more than once a month, which I was shown, so kudos to you to making so high level content so regularly.
While I usually enjoy your videos and interest for Science, it's a shame that this one focused its message on the misuse of the word "uncertainty". When he published his papers, Heisenberg himself realized that the word "uncertainty" was particularly inadequate, and renamed it "indetermination" shortly after. The reason the former is more widely known is because it was already translated before the correction. Heisenberg's indetermination principle actually has little to do with the precision of the mesurement. The correct way to get to this inequation is to define two operators : position and momentum. Once you have these operators, we see if using one before the other makes any difference in your measurement. To do that, we calculate the commutator. Numbers, for example, are mathematical objects that commute : because 2x3 is equal to 3x2, so 2x3 - 3x2 = 0. There are other mathematical objects that don't commute, and it depends on how we define them. It just so happens that the position and momentum operators are defined in such a way that when we calculate their commutator, we don't get 0. Finally, there is a general formula that tells you what is the lowest boundary of the product of the standard deviation of operators, and when you apply this formula to the position and momentum operators you get Heisenberg's indetermination principle. It's "just" a special case.
I feel like he made this for a school project, or he learn about it in school. If he learned it in school he probably got lost in thought and decided to write it down and make a video. (I do love this content, your doing great)
I saw this video and went down to look at the number of subscribers this guy has thinking it'd be 5M+. How has he not even hit the 1 million mark? This man is a genius
I've literally been avoiding this vid for so long because the one thing that I DO know about quantum physics is that it will mess with my brain cells and possibly overload them. I,ll check in after I watched it. Here we go.
An appropriate way to explain/understand uncertainty might be that its quantized like everything else in this reality which itself also is quantized as well. “Perfect” “ideal model” “genetic twins” “experiments” “probabilities” might all be quantized structurally as well making multi verses an ever present phenomena. Anyone’s “reality” of anything coinciding with anyone else’s including an identical twin might thus seem a mathematical probability for the rest. Since symmetry in infinite environments might be approximated some day humanity might succeed in sharing a reality that is adequate for our anatomies. This might be how nature makes itself hack proof unwittingly/intentionally/scientifically, perhaps.
You should be part of the VSauce team. You're pretty much VSauce4 by now with a pinch of existential dread and a soothing voice that conveys this dread even further. I'ts disgusting. I love it.
I like a modified version of the quote, "I think, therefore I am", which is just, "I am", because the only thing I can truly know with certainty is that I exist. I don't know what the reality is that I exist in, except for what objective and subjective theories tell me about it, even my thoughts are uncertain, but I do know that I definitely exist.
To all the "if only schools could be this interesting" comments, there's a big difference between random popular vague science facts to blow your mind and actual science that is tedious to do and learn. Respect your teachers for what they do while barely making a living.
as someone studying quantum mechanics and astrophysics - it IS very interesting and mind blowing. Most people just lack the appropriate passion and find more amusement in the face-value of random bits of information
