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2022-07-20: What If We Live in a Superdeterministic Universe?

  • 02:20: ... block of reality is the wavefunction, which describes the evolving probability distribution of all possible properties of the world, or of tiny parts of the ...

2022-01-12: How To Simulate The Universe With DFT

  • 00:54: ... ol’ Schrodinger equation on the blackboard and solve it to learn the probability distribution of the electron locations, or the energy levels of the system, or ...
  • 02:19: ... find the wavefunction, and the square of that wavefunction gives the the probability distribution for where you’ll find the electron if you try to measure ...

2021-12-10: 2021 End of Year AMA!

  • 00:02: ... interactions gives you the interaction that actually happens or the probability distribution of that interaction so each in that context every virtual particle ...

2021-09-21: How Electron Spin Makes Matter Possible

  • 08:21: ... actual probability distribution is the square of that. We can never, ever observe Psi - all we can do is ...

2021-07-13: Where Are The Worlds In Many Worlds?

  • 07:57: ... high and low points in the wavefunction - meaningful blips in the probability distribution. ...

2018-07-11: Quantum Invariance & The Origin of The Standard Model

  • 03:11: The square of the magnitude of this wave function tells us the probability distribution of a particle's position.

2018-05-23: Why Quantum Information is Never Destroyed

  • 05:02: ... in quantum mechanics, that means the probability distribution of all of its properties, which you can get by taking the square of the ...
  • 08:12: That value seems to be chosen randomly based on the probability distribution encoded in the wave function.

2017-12-06: Understanding the Uncertainty Principle with Quantum Fourier Series

  • 08:06: The magnitude of the wave function squared is the probability distribution for the particle.

2016-08-03: Can We Survive the Destruction of the Earth? ft. Neal Stephenson

  • 11:15: ... the properties of the resulting particle are picked randomly from that probability distribution. ...

2016-06-15: The Strange Universe of Gravitational Lensing

  • 11:45: ... properties, there needs to be a completely random sampling of its probability distribution. ...
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