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no, because it is not simple. you dont even seem to know what quantum physics means.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0kXkWXSXRA

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really fucking small things, that happen to use quantum physics
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number 1 (because thats where the name comes from): some things are quantized, such as energy in a photon. meaning it can only be a certain amount, not something in between.

number 2: you (or other particles) cant know some things at the same time, such as the location and the momentum of another particle.

thats the basics, from those 2 it follows that you cant describe a particle with a single number for its location, such as its x,y,z coordinits, you need a wavefunction that tells you loosely what the probability is to find the particle at x,y,z. these wavefunctions can interfere and act like waves, meaning a particle acts as a wave sometimes.

instead of the location it can be other things such as the momentum or spin of the particle, but the idea stais the same.

>quantum physics
>simple explanation

What are you planning to get out of this?

Digital statistics of inabsolute phenomenon.

Understand what each of those words mean, and you'll be good to go.

>>3386433
this.

If you think you understand it, you probably don't.

You can't just ask someone to explain an entire subject to you. Most people understand that "Explain (biology, Spanish, history, even just regular ol' physics) to me" is a dumb question. I don't know why this doesn't make sense to people when it comes to quantum. It's one of the newest disciplines, is an entire field unto itself and still surprises us frequently with some experimental results.

Secondly, you cannot explain quantum physics to someone "really simple." It's a field based off of immensely complicated mathematical equations that we came up with because nothing made any fucking sense in physics in the early 1900's. It is, by it's very nature, not simple. There's a reason chemists study over 100 elements and in quantum we still jerk off to the hydrogen atom...

Honestly, there are a few things that if you were to even conceptually understand you'd be *lightyears* ahead of most people (What the uncertainty principle means and why it's true, what the quantum numbers mean and why they're important, most importantly- why quantum physics is even called quantum physics). Those are very important concepts of quantum physics that require very little formal training to understand.

>>3386595
this

"Modern Physics" by Krane

That is as basic and simple as it is going to get without getting too math intensive. Still a challenge if you haven't taken any calculus or ANY EM, thermal, or mechanics courses.

here is the difference between quantum mechanics and classical mechanics:

3N or 6N dimensional vectors in a real or complex vector space become infinite dimensional vectors in a Hilbert Space of functions.

>>3386756
I've often thought that linear algebra is more important to understanding quantum then calc is. At least at an introductory level.

>>3386595

Entire post dedicated to Ad Hominem yet larger than this post that actually offers an explanation:(>>3386515)

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