Mechanics
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The everyday world you know and love behaves according to the laws of classical
mechanics.
But systems on the scale of atoms behave according to the laws of quantum
mechanics.
But here's the cool thing: quantum
mechanics
tells us it's possible to erase the both cats alive and both cats dead outcomes from the superposition state.
In quantum mechanics, the exact position and exact speed of an object have no meaning.
The answer lies 12,000 miles over your head in an orbiting satellite that keeps time to the beat of an atomic clock powered by quantum
mechanics.
Quantum
mechanics
says that atoms carry energy, but they can't take on just any arbitrary amount.
For an atom, when a transition occurs from one energy level to another, quantum
mechanics
says that the energy difference is equal to a characteristic frequency, multiplied by a constant, where the change in energy is equal to a number, called Planck's constant, times the frequency.
So that's all it takes: a multibillion-dollar network of satellites, oscillating cesium atoms, quantum mechanics, relativity, a smartphone, and you.
And that's interesting, because it means that just the
mechanics
already stabilized this quite rapid gait, and that really good
mechanics
already basically simplify locomotion.
But no, just the
mechanics
stabilized the gait, and the robot doesn't fall over.
But what's important here is that just for small perturbation, the
mechanics
are right.
Some small animals, like worms and flies, are also limited by the
mechanics
of their cell division.
In fact, much of what we do know comes from studying the
mechanics
of itching in mice.
Here, the logic goes that once a skill becomes automatic, thinking about its precise
mechanics
interferes with your ability to do it.
A study on competitive golfers compared their performance when instructed to simply focus on putting as accurately as possible, versus when they were primed to be acutely aware of the
mechanics
of their putting stroke.
And thirdly, researchers have shown that having an external focus on the ultimate goal works better than an internal focus, where someone is tuned into the
mechanics
of what they’re doing.
So you actually get to see the emails, you get to see the exchanges of messages, you get to see the
mechanics
of how this works, how this operates.
And so I'm going to use, as the metaphor, this association: quantum mechanics, which I really don't understand, but I'm still gonna use it as the process for explaining how it is the metaphor.
So, in quantum mechanics, of course, you have dark energy and dark matter.
There is also the uncertainty principle, which is part of quantum mechanics, as I understand it.
And now string theory comes along and says, yes, gravity, quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, all together in one package, but only if the universe has more dimensions than the ones that we see.
And then one really cool possibility is the idea of orbital tow trucks or space
mechanics.
I would fiddle around with microscopes and electromagnets, and I would read about the forces of the small and about quantum
mechanics
and I would marvel at how well that description matched up to our observation.
We call this physics quantum
mechanics.
And when I was a second-year undergraduate studying physics at Cambridge, I remember spending an afternoon at Nana's house in Urmston studying quantum
mechanics.
I said, "It's quantum mechanics, Nana."
There's quantum
mechanics
down in that corner, it's very small, it's very weird, it happens very quickly, and it's a long way down in the general ... on the scale of anything that matters for everyday life.
They might discover some new quantum mechanics, but apples right here are still going to fall down.
But indeed, the laws of quantum
mechanics
can be written down on a napkin, and yet they govern all of chemistry, all of life, all of history.
It also showed us when using language
mechanics
wasn't the best way to deliver information.
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