Name: Gerald Gabrielse: Measurement of the Electron Magnetic Moment Using a One-Electron Quantum Cyclotron
Duration: 60 min
Description: A Padova physics colloquium (30 March 2023) from Gerald Gabrielse, whose Northwestern group made the measurement section 5 quotes, on measuring the electron's magnetic moment with a single electron held in a trap he calls a quantum cyclotron. Expect professional detail; listen for the fine-structure constant, which the lesson names as the current limit on the theory-experiment comparison.

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The opening lecture of MIT's 8.04 Quantum Physics I (Spring 2013), in which Allan Adams uses thought experiments with measuring boxes to build superposition and uncertainty from scratch. Skip the first ten minutes of course logistics, then watch how a few simple box experiments force exactly the rules of this session: repeat a measurement and the answer stays put; measure an incompatible property and it is scrambled.
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Dominic Walliman's illustrated tour of the whole quantum landscape, explained directly rather than through analogies: wave-particle duality, superposition, uncertainty, entanglement, energy quantization and more. Treat it as a map of the territory, and as you watch, try to spot the five big ideas this lesson names.
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A Friday Evening Discourse recorded at the Ri in November 2025, a century after Heisenberg's breakthrough: a hundred years of quantum theory, from the 1920s pioneers to the technologies being built now. Keep asking which claims are experiment and which are interpretation.
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Fermilab's Don Lincoln on the electron's magnetic moment, the record-breaking agreement between quantum electrodynamics and experiment that Part 5 of this lesson describes. Six minutes on how a theory earns trust: with numbers that match.
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A brisk Crash Course episode on the ultraviolet catastrophe, Planck's law and the photoelectric effect: two of the three cracks in classical physics that section 1 lists. Treat it as a trailer for Chapters 3 and 4, where each crack gets a full lesson.
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Powers of Ten™ (1977)
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Charles and Ray Eames's classic short film, an adventure in magnitudes that starts at a lakeside picnic in Chicago and changes scale by a factor of ten at each step. Watch it as section 2's journey in moving pictures, then remember that the lesson keeps going far past where any camera can follow, down to the Planck length.
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A three-minute Perimeter Institute demonstration that measures Planck's constant with a cheap, simple setup built around LEDs. It makes section 3's exchange rate tangible, and it previews section 6, where an LED's colour is set by its band gap through E = hf.
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