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>Can you recommend an application that would allow me to select for example the words "distant particles can be correlated in ways that are impossible for classical objects" and find out what lead to that discovery? Or what does "Bell inequality" really mean? If not, are there recommended methods of understanding articles better?

Venkman: Ray, pretend for a moment that I don't know anything about metallurgy, engineering, or physics, and just tell me what the hell is going on.

Stantz: You never studied.

(Ghostbusters)

Just studying the principles -- e.g. reading an entry level Physics/QM book, would be better and more solid than surfing around, or asking for opinions on forums (which you couldn't evaluate anyway -- tons of bogus opinions in any kind of forum), or googling stuff.

Stuff like "Bell's inequality" are so basic that merely surfing and skimming wouldn't help (it would be all a kind of concept soup in the end). You can do that with more advanced notions.




Can you recommend an entry level Physics/QM book?


You can also look at some Susskind talks. He is a very good explainer. They don't skim on the math, but it's followable for somebody with a high-school level of math, at least for the basic concepts like spin or bell inequality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyX8kQ-JzHI&list=PLQrxduI9Pd...


My first thought: iTunesU, Youtube, etc... there HAS to be tons of videos on "entry level" stuff like this...

Yale Entry Level Physics Class: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/physics-video/id3416518...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Yale+physics

MIT Quantum Physics: https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/quantum-physics-i/id887...

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=mit+quantum+mec...

quick google searches should yield more classes easily enough.


he also did a small book on QM called "the theoretical minimum" IIRC


Definitely _Quantum Mechanics_ by Susskind and Friedman. Only assumes that you are pretty good with probability, and the expositions are nice


The Feynman Lectures on Physics are not half bad.




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