at the risk of sounding slow. if i follow this correctly; it would seem that it would truly be mathematically impossible to violate the uncertainty principle since there would always be a value associated with you looking at the system.

oppenheimer,kaesspatzomator you have my humble gratitudes .

@krastapopolos
The integral version and vector version satisfy the same rules. You can see in the 57-58mins that he does the dot product for vectors and that produces a sum. An integral is like a sum over an interval. Wavefunctions are infinite dimensional, the vectors aren’t.

@fantar132 could you elaborate because susskind is saying that indeed a single particle is affected by the uncertainty principle

@independence8: “our hunter gatherer? brain is NOT evolved intrepret quantum phenomena”

Sure it is. QM is counter-intuitive, but not outside the realm of human understanding.

@mrelectron111 good question hadn’t thought about that i’m sure it migght be posible one day

23:00 Are we done talking about vector spaces yet…

in fact…kids or not…our hunter gatherer brain is NOT evolved intrepret quantum phenomena……………

@Travellersfees I agree with you actually. y original comment was a bad pun

Getting a degree is FAR more than casually listening to lectures. The courses themselves demand that you 1) do much supplementary reading 2) work through difficult homework problems and 3) take midterms/finals to pass. Not to mention the countless hours of laboratory work and student research which are required. Merely listening to a lecture, while both fun and informative, is actually a very small portion of the educational experience leading to a degree, which is why employers rarely go for it

It is a mathematical model that fits a number of experimental results. No experiment has ever shown it to be wrong. There are things that QM doesn’t explain, though. Would you say that is an explanation for reality?

To teach QM, neo.