{"id":45459,"date":"2018-11-16T02:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45459"},"modified":"2018-10-25T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T14:04:17","slug":"the-origin-of-quantum-mechanics-feat-neil-turok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/11\/16\/the-origin-of-quantum-mechanics-feat-neil-turok\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of Quantum Mechanics (feat. Neil Turok)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i1TVZIBj7UA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>minutephysics<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on Oct 14, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check out the Massey Lectures with Neil Turok: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?redir_token=4q7JGJac-JkrtBHui5BLt1YiNsV8MTU0MDU2MTk5MUAxNTQwNDc1NTkx&#038;q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbc.ca%2Fradio%2Fideas%2Fthe-2012-cbc-massey-lectures-the-universe-within-from-quantum-to-cosmos-1.2921611&#038;v=i1TVZIBj7UA&#038;event=video_description\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/ideas\/the-201&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nPerimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics: <a href=\"http:\/\/pitp.ca\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/pitp.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics &mdash; all in a minute!<\/p>\n<p>Music by Nathaniel Schroeder: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundcloud.com\/drschroeder\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.soundcloud.com\/drschroeder<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Nima Doroud and Bruno LeFloch for contributions and to Perimeter Institute for support.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.perimeterinstitute.ca\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.perimeterinstitute.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Produced in association with the 2012 Massey Lecture Series <a href=\"http:\/\/dft.ba\/-massey\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dft.ba\/-massey<\/a> Created by Henry Reich<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/videos\/the-physics-revolution-that-started-with-the-flicker-of-a-lightbulb?utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AeonMagazineEssays+%28Aeon+Magazine+Essays%29\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Aeon<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The physics revolution that started with the flicker of a lightbulb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The discovery of quantum mechanics at the start of the 20th century shook the very foundations of physics, forcing scientists and philosophers to reexamine everything from particles upward. But as this short animation from MinutePhysics explains, the quantum revolution was jumpstarted by a rather unremarkable question. As the German government asked the theoretical physicist Max Planck: how can lightbulbs be made more efficient? To help solve the problem, Planck tried to account for the changing colour of light based on temperature, which he eventually realised couldn\u2019t be explained by classical Newtonian physics. Working backwards from his data in \u2018an act of despair\u2019, Planck found that light wasn\u2019t emitted continuously, but rather in discrete packets that he referred to as \u2018quanta\u2019. And the rest is the illusory arrow of time that we call history.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>minutephysics Published on Oct 14, 2012 Check out the Massey Lectures with Neil Turok: http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/ideas\/the-201&#8230; Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics: http:\/\/pitp.ca Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics &mdash; all in a minute! Music by Nathaniel Schroeder: http:\/\/www.soundcloud.com\/drschroeder Thanks to Nima Doroud and Bruno LeFloch for contributions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[602,1241],"class_list":["post-45459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-science","tag-physics","tag-quantummechanics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bPd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45460,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45459\/revisions\/45460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}