PickVidsBest Quantum physics Videos
The 57 Quantum physics videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 13 introductory, 15 intermediate, 22 for a general viewer, and 7 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include PBS Space Time, Veritasium, The Royal Institution.
The Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know
Ron Garret's Google Tech Talk argues that quantum mechanics is no harder to understand than relativity and that popular accounts wrongly rely on the Copenhagen interpretation.
Quantum Entanglement & Spooky Action at a Distance
Veritasium explains quantum entanglement and spooky action at a distance, walking through Bell's inequality and the experiments that rule out hidden variables, in under ten minutes.
Quantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe - with David Tong
David Tong, a Cambridge theoretical physicist, explains at the Royal Institution that the fundamental building blocks of nature are quantum fields rather than particles.
The Physics and Philosophy of Time - with Carlo Rovelli
Physicist Carlo Rovelli gives a public lecture at the Royal Institution on how our understanding of time has changed, from Boltzmann and Einstein to quantum theory and loop quantum gravity.
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Introduction
Sean Carroll introduces his video series on the biggest ideas in physics, such as symmetry, space and matter, as informal discussions with follow-up Q&A videos.
Demystifying the Higgs Boson with Leonard Susskind
Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind explains what the Higgs mechanism is and what it means to give mass to particles.
The more general uncertainty principle, regarding Fourier transforms
3Blue1Brown shows how the uncertainty principle arises from Fourier transforms.
Visualization of Quantum Physics (Quantum Mechanics)
An animated visualization of basic quantum mechanics using a free particle, with simulations based on the actual equations.
Particles, Fields and The Future of Physics - A Lecture by Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll's 2013 Fermilab Users Meeting lecture on particles, fields and the future of particle physics.
Noether's Theorem and The Symmetries of Reality
PBS Space Time explains Noether's theorem: conservation laws such as energy and momentum are consequences of deeper symmetries.
Leonard Susskind on The World As Hologram | TVO Docs
Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind gives a public lecture on the holographic principle, the indestructibility of information and the nature of black holes.
A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics - with Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll gives a Royal Institution talk tracing the history of quantum mechanics from Einstein and Bohr to today.
Bell's Theorem: The Quantum Venn Diagram Paradox
MinutePhysics, with 3Blue1Brown, explains Bell's theorem using a Venn diagram paradox and polarizing filters.
Your Mass is NOT From the Higgs Boson
Veritasium explains that the Higgs boson accounts for only a small fraction of everyday mass.
How the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
PBS Space Time explains the quantum eraser experiment, in which erasing which-path information appears to reverse causality in a double-slit setup.
Entanglement and Complexity: Gravity and Quantum Mechanics
Leonard Susskind lectures at Stanford on how gravity and quantum information theory have merged into a new way of thinking about physics.
The Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser, Debunked
Sabine Hossenfelder explains the delayed choice quantum eraser and argues it does not rewrite the past, as popular accounts claim.
Pilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
A PBS Space Time episode introducing de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave theory, an interpretation of quantum mechanics that avoids much of the strangeness of the mainstream views.
Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?
Veritasium shows silicone oil droplets bouncing on a vibrating bath, a physical analogue of pilot wave theory that reproduces quantum-like behavior such as double-slit patterns.
A Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First Look
Eric Weinstein's roughly three-hour presentation of Geometric Unity, his proposed theory unifying physics, given as a special episode of The Portal.
Black hole Firewalls - with Sean Carroll and Jennifer Ouellette
A Royal Institution event with Sean Carroll and Jennifer Ouellette on what happens if you fall into a black hole, covering the firewall paradox, the information problem and the holographic principle.
Single particle creates interference after double slit - Wave particle duality at the workshop
A short demo of a walking droplet on a vibrating silicone oil bath passing through a double slit and producing interference, a macro-scale analogue of pilot-wave behavior.
Do Complex Numbers Exist?
Sabine Hossenfelder asks whether complex numbers are just a convenient tool or necessary in physics.
How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass
A PBS Space Time episode on how the Higgs mechanism gives particles mass, prompted by Fermilab's heavier-than-expected W boson measurement.