How Quantum Mechanics Affects Your Life

I don't like to argue about Quantum Mechanics with other scientists, the outcome is just too unpredictable.

So Professor Farnsworth was right about the Smell-O-Scope after all.

Q: Hey electron are you going right or left? E: Yes

There's quantum mechanics here... I can smell it

Humans: how do we save energy? Plants: use more than one wire to transfer data.

6:10 I love the description as a "wave of proton-ness"

I thought they were gonna talk about blackbody radiation or something. This exceeded expectations. Good job, SciShow!

Thank your for making a video on topics that usually fly over my head 😅

Woah!!! Thanks SR Foxley!! The amount of patreon to become the president of space is ridiculous, thanks for supporting this awesome channel!!

5:14 - Why does this give me the idea to write a Romeo & Juliet style fanfic about protons?

this is how smellovision is gonna be invented

So if the theory of quantum smell is correct, could we engineer molecules with particular configurations in order to stimulate specific smell receptors? Then we could make particles that smell/taste like anything...

Love these longer videos!’

For the record, system level efficiency of photovoltaics are better than photosynthesis. The most efficient plants are about 8% efficient at converting the suns energy to biomass energy. Why is it that people bring up photovoltaic efficiency to criticize it? 20% conversion from low quality sun energy to electricity of high enough quality to make plasma is amazing! Car engines are only about 20% efficient but they require fuels of high quality. Those fuels were created by photosynthesis. How about we change the perspective on photovoltaic efficiency?

This was brilliant, absolutely fantastic! I really enjoyed the explanations and diagrams you provided. Great work!

Very nice. How about hints that our brain itself is a quantum computer or the GPS of birds is quantum related?

Electrons entire existence be like: “Yesn’t but nyes”

When movies need to explain something: quantum Now i see why.

Thank you very much Stefan. Very much. This was eye opening, even if I consider I've crossed with quantum physics in many occasions before. Nothing beats connecting the knowledge you have of something, quantum physics, to the rest of what you know in very clear words and concepts. This strengthens a lot my understanding. This could only happen if you managed to demonstrate those connections in very clear ways, which can be hard. But I believe you did it.

This answered the question I never had. Thanks