Quantum Physics: The World of the Very Small
Like Duolingo, but for Quantum Physics: The World of the Very Small. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
24 levels across 3 sections, about 48 minutes end to end, roughly 10 days at five minutes a day. It moves through The Quantum Surprise, Quantum Connections, and The Quantum World in Your Pocket. It starts from scratch.
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Key ideas in Quantum Physics: The World of the Very Small
- The fundamental unpredictability of the quantum scale vs the macro scale
- Understanding energy as discrete packets rather than a smooth ramp
- Particles can exist in a combination of multiple states simultaneously
- Superposition is a fundamental property of quantum systems before they are measured
- This 'multiple states' behavior is unique to the quantum scale
- Quantum mechanics explains why matter is stable and doesn't collapse
- The role of quantum physics as the building block of reality
- The act of measurement forces a particle to 'choose' a single state
- The concept of superposition where particles exist in multiple states
- Observation collapses the cloud of possibilities into one definite reality
- You cannot watch a quantum system without physically interacting with it and changing it
- The effect of observation on a quantum system
- Light waves spread out after passing through narrow openings
- Light is composed of discrete units called photons
- Overlapping waves can cancel each other out or reinforce each other
- Photons cannot be split into smaller pieces of light
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Quantum Physics: The World of the Very Small the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
Imagine you are trying to add energy to a tiny atom. How does it accept that energy?
Get it right to open this lesson and 23 more in the app.
Where Quantum Physics: The World of the Very Small takes you
Discover the strange and beautiful rules that govern the universe at the smallest scales, from particles that act like waves to objects that exist in two places at once.
- 1
The Quantum Surprise
- The End of the Clockwork Universe
- Light's Secret Identity
- The Probability Game
- 2
Quantum Connections
- Being in Two Places at Once
- Spooky Action at a Distance
- Tunneling Through Walls
- 3
The Quantum World in Your Pocket
- How Quantum Powers Your Phone
- The Big Picture of the Very Small
3 sections · 8 units · 24 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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