Understand Quantum Physics

Just because it seems like something you should be able to understand without knowing any math.

Math sucks.

Life.

this will aid me in my time travel endeavor

I’m getting some of the concepts, but a few things elude me, especially quantum circuity, and quantum entanglement. Oh, and tunnelling. Just doesn’t make sense!

I’ve got cheered on this goal, so I feel an obligation to explain something. Phrasing of this goal is probably not fortunate one, I do not believe I can really comprehend quantum physics with details. But I will try to “get a drift” (wow, I found new and nice expression in my mac’s dictionary). So far I downloaded “Modern Theoretical Physics: Quantum Entanglement Course” by Leonard Susskind from Stanford University (you can get in on iTunes) – I hope it will help.

I’ve had a good row with this. I recommend reading anything Feynman has to offer on the subject, supplemented with any graphic-heavy documentaries or over-imaginative modern trash you can scrounge up. I’m working on strings theory at the moment, I’m having a little trouble with the tensors in a few of the equations. Once I’ve mastered strings I’ll move on to what I really want to learn – Supersymmetry.

I now have a copy of Roger Penrose’s “The Road to Reality” which when I understand it all ,should do the trick.
Unfortunately, by page 50, my math is already struggling!

i watched “what the bleep do we know” today for about the fourth time and i’m really taking it in. the subject matter is so incredibly fascinating to me and i just want to dive headfirst into the rabbit hole. i want to find some good books that are still easy reads.. i think i’ll raid borders on saturday.

i don’t even understand this goal, which goes to show how far i am from getting quantam physics. and, just to clarify, i don’t mean the quantum physics of “what the bleep do we know?” i’m talking quarks and atoms, not some neo-new age hippie channeling something you don’t want to catch through a face that seems to be the product of Tim Burton’s cosmetic surgery. it was an interesting documentary, but they could’ve done without some of the woo-woo.
So i went out and bought a book on quantum physics—kind of a bestseller list approach to the science. haven’t even cracked it open. but, posting this goal has taught me something. there are a lot of things that i want to know about more than quantum physics.

I’ve always had this strange attraction to physics. If you knew me, you probably wouldnt think quantum physics was my interest. But after picking up “An elegant univers”, I really got into it. I started trying to understand real university level material which was a bit overwhelming. Maybe its the fact that what we see isnt really the case. That people are so oblivious, and that I want to be enlightened. Whatever it is, its really got me hooked.