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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop toos your

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brought to you by quantum mechanics And we're not talking

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about the tiny guys who can fix a car different

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kind of a camp All right which of the following

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explains why quantum mechanics is applicability only at the particle

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level Select two answers and here's some choices And we're

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done reading Yeah all right Quantum physics is well weird

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like really weird Like what the heck is going on

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in the universe Weird ever hear someone say you can't

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be two places at once Well quantum physics has shown

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that some particles can in fact be in two places

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at one time and the act of observing a particle

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affect how it moves That's right Just looking at something

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can determine how that's something acts A lot of these

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ideas came from the work of louis debra a french

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brainiac who did a lot of work on this stuff

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In the nineteen twenties He had a theory that everything

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could be looked at as own wave No he wasn't

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a surfer at least not that we know of He

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was just trying to make sense of the weirdness of

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quantum mechanics One thing that's not weird about quantum mechanics

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though is the fact that they still inhabit the same

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universe as the rest of us way all live in

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yellowstone so they have to deal with the same constance

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is we do Constance don't change on a subatomic level

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because they're a constant so is not one Of the

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right answers they're crossing dubray theorized that any moving object

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could be observed as a wave Well if you run

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around the block you too can be a wave We'll

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stay here on the couch though sounds like a lot

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of work to be a wave Objects that are human

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size have a very tiny wavelength so tiny that it

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really doesn't mean anything smaller the object however the larger

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the wavelength and you have to get down pretty small

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for the observed wave to make a real difference in

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how an object interacts with other fields and particles So

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answer b is one of the correct choice right there

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that's correct and this whole wave particle duality where a

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seemingly solid particle can behave like a wave is only

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observable at the scale of adam's or even smaller subatomic

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particles After all if we run around the block no

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one will say look at that wave go They'll say

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are you dying Should we call an ambulance And we're

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also saying that sea is the other correct answer but

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just because it can only be observed on a very

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small scale doesn't mean we couldn't calculate the wavelength of

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a larger object Wait maybe some crazy number like two

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to the negative one thousand but it can definitely be

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calculated So d is incorrect Also yeah quantum mechanics air

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counterintuitive in a lot of ways so they can be

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pretty confusing It's hard to think of A building is

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acting like a wave and it's hard to envision something

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as tiny as an electron period But it's pretty cool

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stuff plus of anyone ever is annoying us While we

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could just start explaining quantum physics to him usually they'll

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get so confused They'll just act like a wave on 00:03:02.223 --> [endTime] flow away from us

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