Now Anybody Could Understand Quantum Mechanics!

[neutralino]

I read S W Hawkings book and could understand every bit of Quantum Mechanics!

There's a huge difference between understanding a popular explanation of a subject and understanding how to sit down and perform calculations on the subject. Until you can do the latter, you cannot begin to understand a theory properly.

[vacuum-mechanics]

There's a huge difference between understanding a popular explanation of a subject and understanding how to sit down and perform calculations on the subject. Until you can do the latter, you cannot begin to understand a theory properly.

Dear neutralino,

Indeed, that is exactly, and as I have observed, not so many people who have done for the latter way!

Sincerely

Nimit

[AntonioLao]

I still don't completely understand QM. So I create Hadamard matrices and a sieve of Diophantus to eventually realize the feasibility of cold fusion.

[vacuum-mechanics]

I still don't completely understand QM. So I create Hadamard matrices and a sieve of Diophantus to eventually realize the feasibility of cold fusion.

Would you please specify a point for an example?

Sincerely,
Nimit

[AntonioLao]

My hunch is to get all the 3 species of neutrino together for initiating cold fusion.

[vacuum-mechanics]

My hunch is to get all the 3 species of neutrino together for initiating cold fusion.

That's sound great! Anyway, I'm not yet study in the area of cold fusion, and then wish you a good luck.

Sincerely,
Nimit

[Steven A Colyer]

The exact quote from Feynman I believe is "My graduate students don't understand Quantum Mechanics because I don't understand Quantum Mechanics!"

Feynman of course was a joker. He probably knew QM better than anyone else in his time.

This is a difficult subject, no lie, therefore introduction into the subject is key. I found Kenneth Ford's book on the subject to be very good, then I found the best website of all in understanding it when I looked up Quantum entanglement at Wiki and was led to the following site:

http://www.ipod.org.uk/reality/index.asp

It's also linked from Wiki's Quantum decoherence page, in fact it's the first reference.

Andrew not only wrote that but maintains and adds to it and responds promptly (usually within a day) in the excellent Replies section beneath each of the 13 articles. The first 4 articles are required reading, the last 9 go increasingly into current issues and the philosophical aspects of QM.

And if there's one branch of science that breeds philosophy like rabbits, it's Quantum Physics.

[Profpat]

There's a huge difference between understanding a popular explanation of a subject and understanding how to sit down and perform calculations on the subject. Until you can do the latter, you cannot begin to understand a theory properly.

Acyually if you can't draw a picture of it you don't understand it. We have a pretty good image of an atom and the more we understand the better the image. Also a good visualization of the DNA molecule. Now E + mc2 is another story. I'm still trying to imagine what energy looks like. It can't be nothing, because energy is something.

[vacuum-mechanics]

Dear Steven A Coyer,

The exact quote from Feynman I believe is "My graduate students don't understand Quantum Mechanics because I don't understand Quantum Mechanics!"

Where does the quotation come from? Please give the reference!

Sincerely

Nimit

[MJA]

The exact quote from Feynman I believe is "My graduate students don't understand Quantum Mechanics because I don't understand Quantum Mechanics!"

Feynman of course was a joker. He probably knew QM better than anyone else in his time.

This is a difficult subject, no lie, therefore introduction into the subject is key. I found Kenneth Ford's book on the subject to be very good, then I found the best website of all in understanding it when I looked up Quantum entanglement at Wiki and was led to the following site:

http://www.ipod.org.uk/reality/index.asp

It's also linked from Wiki's Quantum decoherence page, in fact it's the first reference.

Andrew not only wrote that but maintains and adds to it and responds promptly (usually within a day) in the excellent Replies section beneath each of the 13 articles. The first 4 articles are required reading, the last 9 go increasingly into current issues and the philosophical aspects of QM.

And if there's one branch of science that breeds philosophy like rabbits, it's Quantum Physics.

Science does not breed philosophy or truth, rather it only creates more complexities, uncertainties, more questions, and more doubts.
Truth breeds the unity or Oneness or All.
Truth breeds truth!

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MJA