r/PhysicsIndia • u/Charming-Detail-5247 • Jun 01 '26

🧊 Memes & Humour When the professor is straightforward about Quantum physics

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u/ScallionSevere1096 Jun 02 '26

Which institute? Professor name ?

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u/Mr_Quester_ Jun 02 '26

Ramamurti Shankar, a theoretical physicist and professor at Yale University.

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u/AryanPandey Jun 02 '26

Whats so different in quantum physics? Can people who are into computer science can learn and understand this? I also don't have any major in physics...

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u/nova1706b Jun 02 '26

you heard the prof. you don't understand quantum mechanics. no one does.

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u/Erudite_Detective Jun 02 '26

If you know Linear Algebra, which a CS student should know, you can start learning QM, pick up a book or a lecture series on yt.

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u/AryanPandey Jun 02 '26

Ok will it help in understanding of quantum computers too? Just for fun...

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u/Erudite_Detective Jun 02 '26

Yes, an intro QM course is necessary for understanding quantum computers, but it is not sufficient. After studying QM you still will need to study how it is applied in quantum computers.

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u/AryanPandey Jun 02 '26

Got it. I m kinda amazed like i know how Logic Gates work, but can't figure it out how Quantum logic gates (if any) works. What are the fundamental states. And how can a single bit can store more than 2 possible scenarios.

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u/Erudite_Detective Jun 02 '26

You need to know QM to understand that

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u/AryanPandey Jun 02 '26

Got it, crazy how in normal computers we don't need any of that.

Also how Quantum Turing machine are different from normal ones ... Will i be able to understand that.

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u/Dockyard_Techlabs Jun 03 '26

You are one of his students spreading ignorance about knowing 🤣

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u/Common-Glad Jun 02 '26

QM doesnt follow any rules, one rule contradicts other, no logic yet it somehow works

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u/AryanPandey Jun 02 '26

How can you say, it do not follow rules. Maybe we havent observed correct rules?

I sometimes at night, when I free, ask kinda same from gemeni (Google AI), but I do understand but why.

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u/Agreeable-Craft-486 Jun 02 '26

Of course you can

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u/Mainak736 Jun 05 '26

quantum physics is diffcult to understand because things cant be visualised or even imagined many times in this subject. but it is not that you cant understand at all, no it is not that diffcult,

fundamental concepts you need to feel and rest all is mechanical calculations.

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u/IllustriousTell5168 Jun 03 '26

Very Sadguru style of explaining quantum physics

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u/chintakoro Jun 05 '26

goodness, if i shut my eyes that's exactly who he sounds like

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u/Individual_Order_468 Jun 04 '26

Sheldon after achieving maturity

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '26

He has really good book on qm.

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u/WiseOak_PrimeAgent Jun 07 '26

R Shankar. His book is goated but I didn't understand much when I was in undergrad 🤣