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Explainer · Fermilab
Fermilab
Fermilab's Don Lincoln traces the principle to the wave nature of matter and the link between wavelength and momentum, with Fourier pictures of square and bell-shaped pulses. A good second pass on Parts 2 and 3, and on this chapter's central claim that the limit lives in the wave, not in the instruments.
Lecture · Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology
Munich Center for Quantum Science & Technology · Nergis Mavalvala
Nergis Mavalvala, dean of MIT's School of Science and a member of the LIGO team, at the MCQST Colloquium in July 2025, on the quantum technologies that let LIGO measure below an attometre. Listen for the long version of this section's squeezed-light paragraph: zero-point fluctuations of light set a noise floor, and squeezing reshapes that noise without beating the bound.
Explainer · Perimeter
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics · Katie Mack · 2023
A short episode from Perimeter Institute's Quantum 101 series with Katie Mack. Watch it alongside Chapter 8.
Lecture · Royal Institution
The Royal Institution · David Tong · 2017
Cambridge's David Tong explains why the fundamental ingredients of the universe are fields, not particles, and how a handful of quantum fields in the Standard Model produce everything you can see. The perfect overture to Chapter 25.
Demo · CERN
CERN
CERN's own three-and-a-half-minute 3D animation of ALPHA-g: antihydrogen made from positrons and antiprotons inside the ALPHA atom trap, then dropped to see which way it falls. It shows the machinery behind the 2023 result that closes this section.
Lecture · Perimeter
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics · Netta Engelhardt
A Perimeter public lecture on Hawking's puzzle of whether information ever escapes a black hole, given by one of the physicists this section credits with the 2019 Page-curve calculations. The natural sequel to the 2018 PBS briefing video, which ends before that work.
Explainer · Fermilab
Fermilab
Fermilab's eight-minute report on the 2025 final result of the Muon g-2 experiment, the anomaly this section uses as a case study in science correcting itself. Note that the measurement itself held steady; as the section explains, the anomaly largely faded because lattice QCD brought the theoretical prediction into line with it.
Explainer · Fermilab
Fermilab
A short episode from Fermilab's Quantum Physics series with Don Lincoln and colleagues. Watch it alongside Chapter 25.
Series · Perimeter
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics · Katie Mack · 2023
Ten five-minute episodes hosted by the cosmologist Katie Mack: duality, quantization, uncertainty, superposition, entanglement, probability, tunnelling and quantum computing. The friendliest possible on-ramp, and a quick refresher before any chapter.
Series · Fermilab
Fermilab · Don Lincoln and colleagues
Short, precise episodes from Fermilab, many with Don Lincoln: what quantum mechanics is really about, entanglement, quantum electrodynamics and chromodynamics, quantum field theory and quantum foam, plus a look inside the lab's quantum-computing and networking work.