Contents
These sections are below:
- Thoughts
- Interesting references
- Youtube video links
Thoughts
Weird stuff about quantum mechanics, but it's a WIP
Some interesting references
An article from the journal Foundations of Physics, I have been looking at it for a way of better understanding the mathematical relationships and notations of quantum mechanics. I am not a physicist or mathematician, but I've cut my chops on some of the math. Even so it's pretty heavy and I don't grok most of it.
Essential Linear Algebra by Josh Broida is really good. It's a very "mathy" linear algebra book. Broida makes a lot of useful observations about properties of matrices and other algebraic structures that I haven't seen elsewhere (e.g. how matrix multiplications are really just linear combinations of either rows or columns, depending on which side you're multiplying)
Youtube video links
This one is a good video of Leonard Susskind trying to explain to a basic-physics educated audience what the Higgs boson is in an hour. I am not actually sure if I understand anything better about the Higgs after watching it, but it did teach me about a bunch of interesting quantum phenomenon (e.g. non-zero vacuum expectation values aka "condensates")
Leonard Susskind explains the Higgs boson (Stanford)
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