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How Quantum Theories Took over TikTok
- raydiatian 4y agoWhen I come around to bash social media for using dopey tactics to discuss quantum theory, I have to remind myself that the exact video that inspired a decade long self-propelled fantasy through multiple QM textbooks (and all the miserable diff-eq stats and linear algebra that comes with it) is still available on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7u_UQG1La1o https://youtu.be/7u_UQG1La1o That being said, seems like there’s a lot of difference between a cartoon character explaining the double slit experiment to a high schooler, and a second hand interpretation of Nobel prize results. In terms of inspiring earnest study of QM? Hey, you never know.
- Comevius 4y agoThe irony that in age of the internet it's the superstitions and the mysticism that spreads because they are intuitive, easy to understand.