A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics - with Sean Carroll
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as an approachable entry point to quantum interpretations, and cited on many worlds questions.
What it is
Sean Carroll gives a Royal Institution talk tracing the history of quantum mechanics from Einstein and Bohr to today. He covers the Copenhagen interpretation and the many worlds interpretation.
Recommended by 5 HN commenters across 4 different months, 2020 to 2022.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec josevalerio · 2022-03 · on “A wave function does not collapse upon detection?”
The confusion with the Copenhagen interpretation comes from two main sources in my opinion: 1. What can count as a measurement? 2. Quantum ‘thing’ interacting with a classical world One of my favorite talks on this subject is by Sean Carroll and offers the ‘many worlds ‘ interpretation as an alternative, mainly for its simplicity. Recommend watching the whole thing but if you want just the “debunking”: 25:11 [this video]
Strong rec joncp · 2022-05 · on “Where do space, time and gravity come from?”
Sean Carroll is a master of making quantum mechanics approachable to non-physicists. Here are a few of his talks: - Fermilab 2013: [LINK] - The Royal Institution 2014: [LINK] - The Royal Institution 2020: [this video]
Strong rec raymond_goo · 2022-05 · on “Where do space, time and gravity come from?”
I highly agree and also recommend: [this video] And I will add: The Big Picture: From the Big Bang to the Meaning of Life - with Sean Carroll [LINK] Mysteries of Modern Physics by Sean Carroll [LINK]
Recommends BrandoElFollito · 2020-07 · on “Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities”
As someone who did a PhD in particle physics, this is very hard to understand (and not just apply math) This is actually just one of the interpretations, there are more and some are gaining traction (see for instance [this video] , S Caroll is a great speaker but you need to stay concentrated :)
Recommends slowmovintarget · 2020-12 · on “Scientific Writing and “Science Writing” (2015)”
Funny to see this now. One of the things my wife and I have been doing to engage our brains during the pandemic is to brush up on our knowledge of hard science. Of particular fascination for both of us has been cosmology and the frontiers of physics. We knocked into Sean Carroll's video series on YouTube by first encountering one of his lectures at the Royal Institution [1],[2]. We've been working our way through his "Biggest Ideas in the Universe!" series where he talks through history of physics and cosmology through to modern practice. I've also been reading through one of his books (and have read Stephen Hawking, Kip Thorne, Roger Penrose, Brian Greene, Lee Smolin, and others) and all of
Cites zogomoox · 2022-02 · on “Universe Splitter”
Sean Carrol addressed this in his royal institution lecture (a brief history of quantum mechanics, 37m30s). As far as I understood those universes aren't created, you're just selecting a slice of phase space of the (very big) number of possible universes. ( link: [this video] )
Cites mcguire · 2022-02 · on “Universe Splitter”
Sean Carroll's Royal Institution lecture discussing the many worlds interpretation and using a similar app: [this video] [LINK]