AaS! 185: What is the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics? (Part 3: There and Back Again)
Ask a Spaceman!
Paul M. Sutter
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🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Part 3! Who developed quantum theory and why? What experiments motivated the creation of quantum mechanics? How was quantum mechanics a total break from classical physics? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!
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| 1:32.3 | It turns out that the quantum nature of reality was there all along. We had just been missing |
| 1:40.3 | it the whole time. Welcome to part three on this dive. Deep, delicious dive into the |
| 1:48.1 | wonderful subatomic world of quantum mechanics. In the last episode, I talked about the |
| 1:53.3 | postulates, the basic building blocks of the theory of quantum mechanics. And if you didn't |
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