A Better Way To Picture Atoms
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Publicado 2021-05-19
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This video is about using Bohmian trajectories to visualize the wavefunctions of hydrogen orbitals, rendered in 3D using custom python code in Blender.
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A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of "Hidden" Variables. I
David Bohm, Physical Review, Vol 85 No. 2, January 15, 1952
Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics
J. S. Bell
Trajectory construction of Dirac evolution
Peter Holland
The de Broglie-Bohm Causal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and its Application to some Simple Systems by Caroline Colijn
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arxiv.org/abs/0912.2666v1
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Todos los comentarios (21)
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Thanks everyone - if anybody wants to help me get all of these visuals into one place (wikipedia, etc), please get in touch via patreon (or my email... it's not too hard to find)!
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somehow the weirdest thing in this video is that google search engine needs an advertisement upd. how do I turn off notifications on this particular comment, not on all comments completely? your replies are kind of the same, thank you
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Leave it to Henry to use custom python code in Blender to make pretty pretty physics.
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I love all the wavefunctions for the quantum states of the hydrogen atom. Schrodinger would be proud and Bohr would be in awe of this model. You are so incredible.
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It makes so glad and thankful to see that there are people, around the globe, working hard for their specie, and they don't care on who you are, they just want to know what is the reality around us, and they work together. Thank you guys, all of you around
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0:48 BLOBBY THING Dude... this is beautiful. Great work!
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"i want answers, like where is the electron?" - okay - "or how fast is it going?" - well pal, you're gonna have to pick lmao
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Bro this was freaking epic! One you explain the concept of the orbitals and all of the technicalities with it. Two. Your graphics for this are astounding so simplistic and agreed so mesmerizing. Thanks for doing all the legwork and sharing this project with everyone.
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Incredible, thank you so much for this visualisation. I've always had in my head what my highschool chemistry teacher said "when you start studying at university, you'll have to unlearn everything I've taught you". I never did do chemistry at uni so I've always been wondering about the shells of atoms, the orbit of electrons, and the energy levels of excited atoms. This is an amazing rendering.
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Can you model chemical bonds with the same technique? I'd love to especially see what double and triple bonds "really" look like.
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There is so much encoded in these visuals that I really wish for a hourphysics episode discussing them.
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Amazing video! Finally someone has made such visualisation and done it in an understandable yet still accurate way! Thx for the video!
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As odd as it is, you can make these patterns from a helium neon gas laser by adjusting near plane parallel mirrors. They are called TEM oscillation patterns or simply transverse electric modes. That are literally projections of where the excited electrons were in the helium neon plasma inside the tube. Awesome to see.
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I am a retired scientist and I think this visualization is a huge step forward and very humble as well.
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In an introductory chemistry right now…love these animations ♥️
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These are just INCREDIBLE. I just love that u love the subject so much
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Never heard of this Google sponsor. Maybe I’ll check them out
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Wow! Well done! Love the visual you create. So impressive.
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I am so old that I took O Levels rather than GCSEs(I’m English). Anyway, it was the very first day of my A Level Chemistry course(Year 12) and the first thing our teacher said to us was, “Ok, everything you learned about atomic structure at O level…well, forget it. What you learnt was a simplified representation of atomic structure. That was over forty years ago and we’re still struggling with how to represent the atom but your representation makes so much sense.
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"I hate how some images of atoms look like donuts. So I made them look like donuts with a million sprinkles instead."
