Physics as Resistance: Bose-Einstein Condensates

Physics as Resistance: Bose-Einstein Condensates

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00:00 Part I: Maxwell-Boltzmann Statistics
05:09 Part II: Bose-Einstein Statistics
15:49 Part III: How We Talk About Science
21:14 Part IV: Fermi-Dirac Statistics
32:24 Part V: Bose-Einstein Statistics Again
35:30 Part VI: Bose-Einstein Condensates
40:52 Part VII: The End
43:09 Credits

[werderlebenslang]

I'm serious when I say this: The main reason I watch these videos is that the story telling is great.

[Zxykary]

The way you had a throwaway line in your last video that goes *"-we can talk about Bose-Einstein Condensates, which is what I'd RATHER be doing right now..."* I'm dead.

The Angela Collier Cinematic Universe is so interconnected and coherent, subplots actually get carried through, you can tell the Writers really care.

[elishahar]

Love that Bose basiclaly wrote a letter like "hey einstein im your biggest fan. look what i did :)" and einstein was like "oh ong he cooked" and publiahed his paper is delightful

[ItWasSaucerShaped]

'we all agree atoms exist'

that feels like something we won't be able to take for granted much longer

[josephbrisendine]

Hey Angela, I'm a PhD physicist who left Academia to be a high school math teacher. I have learned lots of little historical tidbits and occasionally some stuff about physics not related to my field from your vids, and this is my first time commenting. I think you probably pick up some bias from the sample of frequent commenters as you acknowledge, but I really just wanted to say that there are probably a lot of people who know exactly what you are talking about and still watch for you more or less, i.e. the hot takes and the deadpan, Phillip Seymour Hoffman-esque, delivery. I just enjoy watching to see your mind and your sense of humor performing yourself, basically, and it's always entertaining as hell. Thank you for taking the time to make these vids and to do the work you do!

[KelsangGyudzhin]

As someone who rarely comments, allow me to un-skew the sample with some random data:
I have no physics education beyond High School, and do not work in STEM. I work as a baker. I watch this channel because, while I like learning, I especially like listening to non-hateful smart people talk enthusiastically about things they find interesting and/or important. And, as someone else pointed out, the storytelling is fantastic.

[Kitchen]

Bose having his name next to Einstein for the name of a matter state is amazing. But having his name combined with photon to become the ubiquitous Boson is next level.

[puffthemagiclepton]

"I don't want to talk about dark matter, lets talk about superfluid Helium-4." Epic transition.😅

[Kilner_Carpenter]

As a young woman studying physics at a University in Kentucky right now (in the midst of the federal government’s flagrant and malicious attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion in all American institutions), I had to pause the video and collect myself at 8:55. The phrase “learning theoretical physics as resistance” got me all choked up. My situation is obviously not nearly as abjectly awful as the oppression faced by Saha and Bose, but it still struck a chord with me. I think I needed to hear this story. Thank you, Dr. Collier, for telling it

[JoeCuv]

The best reasons for watching Angela's Videos: (1) Scientifically interesting topics to feed the brain, (2) History of science and scientists add dimension, (3) Dummies like me learn new things and remember old ones from our old college days, (4) "It's fine, it's fine" and all the dry witty humor, (5) Reading comments. Thanks Angela!

[redstatesaint]

WRT whether Bose and Saha would have considered Maxwell as a Scot or an English:

We understand the era of colonialism in India as the _British Raj_ and not English Rule. The Scots, Welsh and (some) Irish were very much part of the British administration in India. In fact, it was through jobs in the Indian subcontinent that the Scots in particular started benefitting from British colonialism, and their own "nationalist" antagonism towards the English softened.

Either way, when your rights are secondary to the pleasures of the British sahibs, the differences between the nationalities of the United Kingdom/Great Britain matters very little to the colonised. And using French, German and Russian literature, science and political theory was a common way to counter British hegemony.

[BecauseSymbols]

“We’re all standing giants or something.” Excellent quote, will use it.

[RyanJulich-hdpn]

"There are two reasons people watch these videos"

I watch these because you know a bunch of stuff I don't and I like how you talk.

[KarlBunker]

The fact that Samual Goudsmit(?) discovered a degree of freedom of the electron without knowing what a degree of freedom is totally cracked me up.

[VioletRM]

As for your guesses as to why people watch your content, I have little active interest or knowledge in physics (i failed IB Physics in high school), but I do enjoy listening to passionate people speak about their interests. Its nice to listen to

[RandomNoun]

I watch for the dead pan, the sarcasm, and the always spot on transition slide music. It’s weird even to me how much I enjoy the transition slide music choices.

[herebejamz]

Dude really said, "Fck being a genius, just do stuff." which is so real.

[joefitzgerald]

I am the kind of viewer that comes to see how often Angela's wonderfully enthusiastic hand gestures confuse the autofocus on her camera.

[skepticool]

I'm in undergrad and we literally just officially learned about Bose-Einstein condensates yesterday.Thanks for this! It's unbelieavable convenient.

[teja]

I am one of those silent watchers who never comments. I have a PhD in condensed matter physics and I mainly watch for the articulation but also for the new insights about things I think I knew already (your Feynman video was interesting af). Also it gives me a topic to talk to my buddy who's also a scientist. And every now and then I just steal/borrow topics to talk about in my local channel in my local language.