From Looking Glass Universe. To learn more about solar energy and to join in on events, visit Sun Day’s website: http://crnt.link/sun-day-lookingglassuniverse #SunDayPartner This is Brian Potter’s article(s) on how to solve solar’s seasonality problem and how much it’ll cost: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/can-we-afford-large-scale-solar-pv and https://www.construction-physics.com/p/understanding-solar-energy Plus his articles on exactly how solar got so cheap are super interesting:…

From Looking Glass Universe. Head to https://80000hours.org/lgu to start planning a career that is meaningful, fulfilling, and helps solve one of the world’s most pressing problems I was very excited about this paper that seemed to finally disprove Bohmian mechanics: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09099-4 However, despite it appearing in the most prestigious science journal, I think the conclusion…

From Looking Glass Universe. This short film is based on the report AI 2027: https://ai-2027.com/ Shrinking AGI timelines: a review of expert forecasts https://80000hours.org/2025/03/when-do-experts-expect-agi-to-arrive/ The case for AGI by 2030 https://80000hours.org/agi/guide/when-will-agi-arrive/ This video was supported by the Future of Life Institute’s Digital Media Accelerator: https://futureoflife.org/project/digital-media-accelerator/ This video is probably the hardest on I’ve worked on.…

From Looking Glass Universe. Donate to FarmKind at: https://www.farmkind.giving/donate?promo=lookingglass I finished my PhD in quantum computing in 2020. I loved the research, my supervisor and my colleagues were amazing, and the field was booming with new start ups being spun out everywhere. I choose to leave the field anyway. Here’s why.

From Looking Glass Universe. Donate to FarmKind at: https://www.farmkind.giving/donate?promo=lookingglass Here are links to a few of the websites I mentioned in the video. NASA’s sun website: https://science.nasa.gov/sun/ Pictures of the sun from the space station: https://cosmic-watch.com/cosmicbeta/the-sun-from-space/ Standford University’s Solar Center: https://solar-center.stanford.edu/sid/activities/GreenSun.html

From Looking Glass Universe. This video is about the biggest lie people are told about the double slit experiment: that electrons are particles when they’re observed, but waves when they’re not. The truth is much more interesting. Wave simulation website: https://www.falstad.com/ripple/ Paper about the single photon at a time version of the experiment: https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article/84/9/671/1057864/Video-recording-true-single-photon-double-slit

From Looking Glass Universe. This video is about the quantum eraser experiment. Understanding this experiment helps us understand the measurement problem in quantum physics, and it might even give us a clue for how to solve it. The write up of the mathematics of the quantum eraser is here: https://looking-glass-universe.teachable.com/courses/quantum-mechanics-fundamentals13/lectures/60992171 It does require knowing the…

From Looking Glass Universe. How do MRIs work? It turns out that MRIs measure the quantum spin of your protons, and use that information to make a super detailed 3D map of your body. This video is from the series "Quantum experiments at home": https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg-OiIIbfPj3mDFx5zjVPtgiGwZMM4Erw

From Looking Glass Universe. This video is about Richard Feynman’s Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), which says that light is made of photons that go on all possible paths at once. The experiment in the video is from the following video from Veritasium. Even though I don’t agree fully agree with their interpretation of the experiment, I…

From Looking Glass Universe. The 4 week live course will run from Jan 6 – 31st. More info here 🙂 https://looking-glass-universe.teachable.com/p/quantum-mechanics-fundamentals1 The rest of this quantum mechanics course playlist is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg-OiIIbfPj1t7zYsf6aj7wrGb9fghFDk If you’re interested in doing this experiment, here’s what you’ll need: -A laser pointer (go for a weak one in a cat toy…

From Looking Glass Universe. The 4 week live course will run from Jan 6 – 31st. More info here 🙂 https://looking-glass-universe.teachable.com/p/quantum-mechanics-fundamentals1 The rest of this quantum mechanics course playlist is here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg-OiIIbfPj1t7zYsf6aj7wrGb9fghFDk Here is Ozama’s measurement noise – disturbance relation paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0207121

From Looking Glass Universe. The 4 week live course will run from Jan 6 – 31st. More info here 🙂 https://looking-glass-universe.teachable.com/p/quantum-mechanics-fundamentals1 Here’s the rest of this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg-OiIIbfPj1t7zYsf6aj7wrGb9fghFDk

From Looking Glass Universe. The 4 week live course will run from Jan 6 – 31st. More info here 🙂 https://looking-glass-universe.teachable.com/p/quantum-mechanics-fundamentals1 Here’s the rest of this series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg-OiIIbfPj1t7zYsf6aj7wrGb9fghFDk Here’s a great video on Bell basis measurements: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGe0DxORJeE

From Looking Glass Universe. The 4 week live course will run from Jan 6 – 31st. More info here 🙂 https://looking-glass-universe.teachable.com/p/quantum-mechanics-fundamentals1 This is part of quantum mechanics course I’m making, that has no maths preqs: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg-OiIIbfPj1t7zYsf6aj7wrGb9fghFDk