Unit 6 · Quantum Technology & Frontiers
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Frontiers: Quantum Fields, the Standard Model & Quantum Gravity
Where the map ends — and where tomorrow's headlines begin
Quantum Academy · presented by Dr. Quincy Quantenstein
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Watch the lesson · Unit 6: Quantum Technology & Frontiers
Frontiers: Quantum Fields, the Standard Model & Quantum Gravity
Where the map ends — and where tomorrow's headlines begin
- ≈ 40 min
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- Narrated by Dr. Q
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By the end you'll be able to
- Explain why combining quantum mechanics with special relativity requires fields, and what it means that every particle is a quantized excitation of a field.
- Trace antimatter from Dirac's 1928 equation to positron emission tomography, and calculate the photon energies produced when an electron and positron annihilate.
- Describe Feynman diagrams as terms in a series in the fine-structure constant, compute the leading corrections to the electron's magnetic moment, and explain honestly what virtual particles are.
- Organize the Standard Model's quarks, leptons, gauge bosons and Higgs boson by charge, spin and mass, and reconstruct a particle's mass from the two photons it decays into.
- List what the Standard Model leaves out, compare string theory and loop quantum gravity with their experimental status, and calculate a black hole's Hawking temperature.
- Evaluate a physics headline using arXiv, peer review, replication and statistical significance, and use the daily What's New in Quantum bulletin to follow the field.