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.
Lecture 1 | The Theoretical Minimum
Leonard Susskind opens Stanford Continuing Studies' Theoretical Minimum series with an introduction to quantum mechanics, a course for people who want real physics rather than popularization.
Hawking Radiation
PBS Space Time explains Stephen Hawking's prediction of Hawking radiation and how black holes can emit radiation and slowly evaporate.
Do we have to accept Quantum weirdness? De Broglie Bohm Pilot Wave Theory explained
Looking Glass Universe explains de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave theory (Bohmian mechanics) as an alternative to the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Leonard Susskind | "ER = EPR" or "What's Behind the Horizons of Black Holes?" - 1 of 2
Stanford physicist Leonard Susskind gives the first of two mini-lectures on "ER = EPR", the idea that quantum entanglement and wormholes are related.
How big is a visible photon?
Huygens Optics shows through a laser interference experiment that the question of a photon's size is really about coherence length.
Consciousness is Not a Computation (Roger Penrose) | AI Podcast Clips
Clip from Lex Fridman's podcast with Roger Penrose in which Penrose argues that consciousness is not a computation.
The Higgs Mechanism Explained | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
PBS Space Time explains the Higgs field and how the Higgs mechanism gives particles mass within quantum field theory.
The Holographic Universe Explained
A PBS Space Time episode explaining the holographic principle: the idea that our 3+1 dimensional universe may be described by information on a lower-dimensional boundary.
Turning Waves Into Particles
Huygens Optics explores the idea that space is a non-linear elastic medium, and uses simulations to show how wave energy might be confined locally into particle-like objects.
Quantum Entanglement and the Great Bohr-Einstein Debate | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios
PBS Space Time explains the Bohr-Einstein debate over quantum mechanics and how quantum entanglement settled it.
There’s No Wave Function? | Jacob Barandes
Physicist Jacob Barandes discusses his view that quantum mechanics can be formulated without wave functions, using a stochastic, probabilistic approach.
The Strangest Implication of Quantum Mechanics
A Veritasium video that follows the principle of least action from Bernoulli and Newton to quantum mechanics, asking whether light takes all possible paths at once.
David Deutsch on Physics Without Probability
A 2015 talk by David Deutsch with slides and audio about constructor theory and how physics, in particular the many-worlds interpretation, can be framed without probability.
Sir Roger Penrose & Dr. Stuart Hameroff: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PHYSICS OF THE BRAIN
A 2020 UC San Diego event with Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff presenting their Orch OR theory that consciousness arises from quantum processes in brain microtubules, followed by a conversation with Roger Bingham.
The Black Hole Information Paradox
PBS Space Time episode on the black hole information paradox, covering how black holes seem to destroy information, the no-hair conjecture and the proposed role of the event horizon.
Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed
A PBS Space Time episode asking whether the universe's information can ever truly be lost, tying quantum mechanics, determinism and black holes together.
Quantum Field Theory visualized
ScienceClic gives a 15-minute animated introduction to quantum field theory, covering fields, spin, conserved quantities, the standard model and interactions.
Why the Muon g-2 Results Are So Exciting!
A PBS Space Time episode explaining the Fermilab Muon g-2 results and why a discrepancy with the Standard Model prediction could point to new physics.
The Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!
PBS Space Time explains the Standard Model Lagrangian, the single equation encapsulating the particle physics theory, and visualizes what its terms mean.
The Case for String Theory - Sixty Symbols
Sixty Symbols interviews Nottingham cosmologist Tony Padilla, who says string theory deserves to be taken seriously.
What is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?
A detailed 40-minute explanation of the ultraviolet catastrophe, covering Rayleigh and Jeans' classical treatment of blackbody radiation and Planck's quantum hypothesis.
Was Penrose Right? NEW EVIDENCE For Quantum Effects In The Brain
PBS Space Time examines Roger Penrose's idea that consciousness arises from quantum processes in the brain, and reviews new evidence about microtubules.
Does Superdeterminism save Quantum Mechanics? Or does it kill free will and destroy science?
Sabine Hossenfelder explains superdeterminism as an interpretation of quantum mechanics, addressing common objections and misconceptions, including the worry that it kills free will or science.
Something Deeply Hidden | Sean Carroll | Talks at Google
Sean Carroll's Talks at Google presentation of his book Something Deeply Hidden.