Cool video explaining quantum mechanics

[legoclone09]

My dad showed me an awesome video that explains what quantum mechanics is, and how it was discovered. Here it is!

[RainDreamer]

I can't stop laughing when they draw Schrodinger with cat face.

[K^2]

One day, perhaps, someone will figure out how to explain Quantum Mechanics in a simple way without saying a whole bunch of things that are simply wrong. Today is not that day. But good effort. It's definitely one of the better explanations of orbitals to a lay person.

[PB666]

1 hour ago, K^2 said:

One day, perhaps, someone will figure out how to explain Quantum Mechanics in a simple way without saying a whole bunch of things that are simply wrong. Today is not that day. But good effort. It's definitely one of the better explanations of orbitals to a lay person.

Well the orbital he details for hydrogen is actually only stable for transition metals, lol. (Also 4n+2 orbital is missing). For hydrogen that electron in a d orbital would be in an extremely excited state and quickly decay to the orbital in the first panel. Hydrogen atoms when given a chance like to place two electrons and share on 1s-1s orbital. This is because each orbital can hold 2 electrons of opposing spin, which he did not mention. So in nature hydrogen generally looks like a proton and an electron whizzing disassociatively in space, or you have this

ed = electron density, * = proton

ed * ED * ed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_orbital#Molecular_orbital_examples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular_orbital_diagram#Diatomic_MO_diagrams

Its one thing to tell people its wrong, its another to tell them why. In addition to these errors, he left out a whole lot of critical material that has to do with quantum mechanics of the nucleus, also wave functions of, well, everything. etc.

[RainDreamer]

Considering even now people still get things about classical mechanics wrong, it will take a while to be able to explain everything about quantum mechanics and not losing them in the process.