History of quantum mechanics bibliography by 
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-01-04 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-01-04 +Created 1970-01-01This only makes sense if the photon exists, there is no classical analogue, because the energy of classical waves depends only on their amplitude, not frequency.
Experiments that suggest this:
Quantum is getting hot in 2019, and even Ciro Santilli got a bit excited: quantum computing could be the next big thing.
No useful algorithm has been economically accelerated by quantum yet as of 2019, only useless ones, but the bets are on, big time.
To get a feeling of this, just have a look at the insane number of startups that are already developing quantum algorithms for hardware that doesn't/barely exists! quantumcomputingreport.com/players/privatestartup (archive). Some feared we might be in a bubble: Are we in a quantum computing bubble?
To get a basic idea of what programming a quantum computer looks like start by reading: Section "Quantum computing is just matrix multiplication".
Some people have their doubts, and that is not unreasonable, it might truly not work out. We could be on the verge of an AI winter of quantum computing. But Ciro Santilli feels that it is genuinely impossible to tell as of 2020 if something will work out or not. We really just have to try it out and see. There must have been skeptics before every single next big thing.
Very practical, low-cost experiments.
Alan Watts controlled dream of life talk by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-01-04 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-01-04 +Created 1970-01-01Goes along: if you could control your life multiple times to be perfect, you would eventually get tired of paradise, and you would go further and further into creating uncertain worlds with some suffering, until you would reach the current real world.
Very similar to The Matrix (1999) when Agent Smith talks about the failed Paradise Matrix shown at www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Qs3GlNZMhY:
Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world where none suffered, where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed that we lacked the programming language to describe your "perfect world". But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. So the perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from.
Alan Watts' "The dream of life" talk
. Source. When a characteristic is basal, it basically means the opposite of it being polyphyletic.
E.g. monotremes laying eggs did not evolve separately after function loss, it comes directly from reptiles.
2011 PHYS 485 lecture videos by Roger Moore from the University of Alberta by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-01-04 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-01-04 +Created 1970-01-01These feel good. Targeted at upper undergrads, so he says he holds back on some stuff, but gives a good level of detail for people who have a life.
Partial label partial derivative notation by Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-01-04 +Created 1970-01-01
Ciro Santilli 35 Updated 2025-01-04 +Created 1970-01-01 There are unlisted articles, also show them or only show them.