Understand quantum mechanics

A great start is Brian Greene’s The Elegant Universe. Michio Kaku has done some great work in this area as well. Though his works tend to lie in futurism and not neccesarily in communicating QM concepts.

I want to understand the core concepts because without a PHD in high level math (calc, topology, etc), there’s no chance i can truly understand the marvel that is QM.

...and I didn’t think I’d ever be interested in something such as this. Go buy Michio Kaku’s book Parallel Words—and he breaks it down. There’s a lot more to our universe than you can fathom.

This year, CERN in Switzerland will use the Large Hadron Collider to test a lot of shit that Einstein and others have been proposing for a while—you should really catch up on this stuff before this happens because it is going to be a major event of our lifetime that people will be reading about in science books to come.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/16/671015.aspx

Logical people want to understand things linearly… I’m not logical sometimes but to be respected, one has to be able to at least explain something that is theoretical and/or esoterical in a logical fashion. hmmmnn.. do I really need the respect?
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Never going to complete this. Howver, got my head around Schrodinger’s Cat and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Now to read Dirac! Good intro book from the OUP has helped. But no maths please my head will explode!

Never going to complete this. Howver, got my head around Schrodinger’s Cat and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Now to read Dirac! Good intro book from the OUP has helped. But no maths please my head will explode!

I have always been a physics buff- it is my best class in school, I read about it, and in an ideal world I’d work in physics. However, quantum mechanics baffles me. Reading two sentences of Feynman (reportedly only Feynman and God understood the subject) leaves me baffled and bewildered. So, to start off with, I am taking a course “Saturday Morning Physics” at Fermilab and reading “Quantum Mechanics in a Nutshell.” We’ll see where everything goes from there…

amazing how deepak chopra used this to understand consciousness.

total coolness.

I’m reading about how it basically come about and understanding the general

If just I had read 13 things that do not make sense when I was a boy. Then I would have becomed a great scientist.

What really interests me is the Belfast homeopathy results, it resembles a well known thing in computer programming: pointers. I wonder how many scientists that are familiar with pointers? This makes perfect sense.

will take this off my list first as i got other stuff to concentrate on.

i’m very interested in understanding the dynamics of all this, so… will definitely take this goal back up later in my life, its just that for the moment, i gotta concentrate on other perspectives.

BRB! – not 100% giving up like the catagory says :(