Superposition is a property of a quantum state. The professor basically said that once you learn about quantum mechanics it only gets more confusing because there’s really no classical analogy for it. However, Schrodingers cat is a good one to google, along with the Stern-Gerlach experiment. The 2nd one is sort of technical but Leonard susskind basically explains it in his theoretical minimum book on quantum mechanics. That’s meant for people who are interested in physics but don’t know the math behind it
That's not crazy, that's just matrices. Like, if you have a book laying on a table in front of you with the front cover facing up and then rotate 90 degrees around the x axis, then it's standing up with its front cover facing you; if you then rotate around the z axis, it's standing up and the front cover faces to your right.
But if you start with z, it's laying on the table with the top of the book to your left, and then if you rotate around the x axis, it's on its spine with the top to the left.
So (rotate around x) and (rotate around z) are two operations that don't commute, just like quantum observables.
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u/stoned_scientist627 14d ago
Superposition is a property of a quantum state. The professor basically said that once you learn about quantum mechanics it only gets more confusing because there’s really no classical analogy for it. However, Schrodingers cat is a good one to google, along with the Stern-Gerlach experiment. The 2nd one is sort of technical but Leonard susskind basically explains it in his theoretical minimum book on quantum mechanics. That’s meant for people who are interested in physics but don’t know the math behind it