Quantum Physics: an overview of a weird world

Quantum Physics: an overview of a weird world, A primer on the conceptual foundations of Quantum Physics

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• Created by Marco Masi
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• 15.5 hours on-demand video
• Full lifetime access
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Description

Note: Take a look at the free lectures! Scroll down to the curriculum and click on 'Basics I'. The 'preview' lectures are free. That might help you to get a better feeling on what's about.

Why this course? This is a course that originates from my desire to share my knowledge of the mysterious as fascinating world of Quantum Physics. Considering how the media (sometimes also physicists) present Quantum Theory focusing only on highly dubious ideas and speculations backed by no evidence or, worse, promote pseudo-scientific hypes that fall regularly into and out of fashion, I felt it necessary to create a serious introduction to the conceptual foundations of Quantum Physics for all. The world needs to know what Quantum Mechanics is, as it really is, beyond vulgarized oversimplifications which have led only to misunderstandings. This is also a long-term project, which aims at demystifying quantum physics. An extended and detailed treatise that aims at rising the global awareness on a subject I love to talk about. I have worked hard to create not just a “quantum physics for dummies” course but a a high level and professional account which remains nevertheless accessible to all. I sincerely hope you will enjoy it and that it will make you discover new realities. I will continue to work on it. You can help by enrolling.

Who is it for? This course is for all and does not need any technical background. It is for those who always wanted to understand the principles of quantum physics, even if they are not physicists. For those who always have been attracted by the fascinating and weird quantum world, but found only advanced level university courses, or superficial popular science accounts or, worse, pseudo-scientific theories. For those who searched for a course that explains the basics of the conceptual foundations of Quantum Mechanics, but that does not presuppose a technical preparation, and yet furnishes the most rigorous and advanced account as far an (almost) non-mathematical exposition allows for.

Since in schools, colleges and universities, Quantum Physics is taught with a dry and almost exclusively technical approach which furnishes only a superficial insight on its foundations, this course is recommended also to school, undergraduate and graduate students who would like to look further. Not only physicists could (re-)discover some topics but philosophers and historians of science could acquire with this course a basic preparation which is unlikely to be offered in most departments. This online course proposes itself also to become part of a faculty curriculum in departments or other institutions which would like to expand their interests towards the foundations of Quantum Physics (contact the instructor for details).

What is it about? A course on the conceptual foundations of Quantum Physics on topics that you won't find elsewhere explained at introductory level, designed to be a comprehensive A-Z guide that will save you a ton of time in searching elsewhere trying to piece all the different information together. It will lead you by hand as clearly as possible from the abc of Quantum Mechanics to the most recent experiments and its implications.

A course that does not only introduce you to the basics of quantum theory, but covers also with a simple approach topics and several experiments that usually are discussed only among specialists. We review the standard concepts like the wave-particle duality, Heisenberg`s uncertainty principle, Schrödinger`s cat, the vacuum zero-point energy and virtual particles, among several others. Then we deepen the subject analysing quantum entanglement, the so called "EPR paradox" which question our naive understanding of the meaning of reality and locality, together with other effects and ground breaking discoveries of the last century physics. Another, more advanced section, and that is usually not explained to the popular audience in an accurate but clear and understandable way, is what I call the "quantum ontology experiments", like the "which way", "quantum erasure", "delayed choice", "interaction free" and "quantum teleportation" experiments. This course is unique in the sense that, after delivering a historic introduction and the foundations, it discusses also several topics which go to the essence of the quantum phenomena, making it available for the first time in an easy understandable way to everyone. Especially the part on the quantum ontology experiments may be interesting for physicists who want to deepen their conceptual foundations.

My aim is to deliver the material necessary so that you will be able by yourself to distinguish between mere speculative (and more or less extravagant) interpretations in fashion, and the real Quantum Theory and its experimental facts as it is.

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Who this course is for:

• Everyone who is passionate about science and/or philosophy of science and is curious about the laws and the nature of the material universe.
• The course is well suited for all those university students who do not have sufficient mathematical background to go through a high-level QM course, but would like to assimilate the basics of quantum physics for the purpose of additional research. For instance philosophers, historians of science or

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