Counter-Intuitive Physics

Quantum Physics and Albert Einstein’s General Relativity

[Macieks]

Basically, it's not the universe's fault you can't understand it but yours.

[petit.croissant]

we need to run every baby through a double slit experiment to expose them to quantum mechanics at an early age

[yurisich]

I'm glad to see you making shorts. This one was really good.

[chiechie]

The physics we experience is, itself, a model in our brain. When we talk about classical physics, we are using an external model using math to describe a set of properties that our brains also model into the space and time we experience. Normally, we translate these models together, since what classical physics shows us is at a scale that our brains "simulate" into experiences.

The problem is that our brains are not wired to model universal properties at small scales. Space and time are emergent phenomenon that our brains treat as fundamental. When we explore deeper, the model our brains use becomes inaccurate.

[makismakiavelis]

As Carl Sagan put it:

_“(...)We are not the measure of all things, there are wonders unimagined. The Universe is not obliged to conform to what we consider comfortable or plausible."_

[blue_tetris]

Another great video. Survival is the only reason our brains work the way they work; science is something greater still.

[tobiaskoran]

Every time I hear the phrase "since the beginning of time" I like to remind myself that time might have a beginning and end.

[shihasnarvan]

can you please give an advice on how can we visualize topics like electromagnetism, while analyzing a situation under limited time?

[metaontology]

Eugene K. is a legend for the drawing in multiple dimensions video. Subscribed faster than the speed of light

[prokrastnation]

I like the Schrödinger's cat reference on the Quantum Physics book. “Stop testing on animals” haha

[prosimion]

glad you guys are making videos still.

[guillermoaguilar]

el mejor canal de ciencia divulgativa de la historia

[Arson_Oakwood]

The only things that made me not understand quantum physics at first were very poor professors explanations and the most ridiculous models and analogies of mechanisms behind it, as if people competed in making the worst models possible, and only my persistence and anger for being fed bullshit, made me understand what is really going on, and it became as intuitive as everything else, knowing correct mechanisms behind it.

[c.jishnu]

Commenting so you get recommended by YouTube.

[timothymattnew]

To be fair, I'm not too familiar with special relativity or quantum mechanics, and I'm reading more basic (undergrad) stuff at the moment. Despite that, I still hear from others the unhelpful advice that "you don't need to understand it to use it" or "intuition is not your goal", and every time, when I spend an additional hour or two thinking about the topic, I come to grasp the intuition that others, even professors, miss. It just seems that if you don't stop digging deeper and deeper you finally get to have a mildly intuitive understanding of the topic. I'll stand corrected if in a year or two it turns out that you were right all along, but some scientists back in the day had to develop the field of relativity or quantum physics, and I'm pretty sure they were basing their conclusions on some, though abstract, intuition.

[jafinch]

Makes me think about the 4th dimension, when not thinking time, being impossible to sense with our senses. If I understand correctly, and I don't most likely, we can only understand and sense the reflection of the 4th dimension at least when modeling applied versus theoretical. Any great videos you're aware of that detail visually like modeled?

[sriharitheerthagiri]

Thank you team continue your work more😊

[MedicalMilitaryDoctors]

You gonna elaborate on how this matters at all. Also I highly doubt Australopithecus was doing calculus to make stone tools

[iMANTlS]

What made time starts, is what "hard wired" our brains

[StephenRansom]

I see your point, but disagree with some of the positions … quantum mechanics was understood by the ancients, although it was noticeable in terms of Speculative Feeling. The way a dog knows an owner is returning.
General Relativity has similar correlations via the perception of time, and the relationship between POV & philosophic values.
Granted, these are spoken constructs that never solved high maths … Still, they are parts of human nature that science dislikes. 😅