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Starting on Sunday and continuing for the next 6 weeks, we'll be airing the History of Quantum Computing! Today comes with your private early-access link to watch episode 1. 

A tremendous thank-you to Alexander Tamas, the "mystery patron" who made this series possible. We finally found room in our busy production schedule to create and air this series alongside our regularly scheduled, patron-approved Extra History videos. A huge thank you to the multiple guest artists we got to work with, to Matt for his skillful wrangling of the production schedule and keeping everyone happy, and to you, the patrons, for your patience and support.

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Quantum Computing - The Foundation of Everything - Extra History - #1

Is light a particle? Is light a wave? Let's take a look at Thomas Young's famous double-slit experiment--creating those really super funky interference patterns you might remember from your high school physics classes. Support us on Patreon! http://bit.ly/EHPatreon (--More below) Check out all our shows at http://becausegamesmatter.com Grab your Extra Credits gear at the store! http://bit.ly/ExtraStore Subscribe for new episodes every Saturday! http://bit.ly/SubToEC Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweet Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPage ____________ ♪ Get the intro music here! http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H ♪ Outro music: "Subatomic Fugue" by Tiffany Roman http://www.tiffanyromanlouk.com/

Comments

Sientir

This was great! Interesting, informative, and with some good comedy. :)

Anonymous

what the heck is a "mystery patron"?

Anonymous

Great start! I'm just glad I already knew what the interference pattern looks like. I wonder if its omission will confuse other viewers.

Anonymous

This is making my brain hurt, but I really enjoy listening to Matt. I'm glad he's having fun with narrating. ^_^

weirdo123

Agree, good humor to help make the information more palatable. Hope the rest of the series is as informative.

Anonymous

Well i didn't understand any of that, but still liked it.

Anonymous

Oh yes! this episode rules. Quantum Physics goes so much against what we perceive as common sense. And I love your explanation (and the "updog" pattern) x)

Anonymous

Yay for Extra Extra History!

Anonymous

While I very much enjoyed the rest of the video, I am not a fan of leaving out the actual interference pattern. It looks really neat, and replacing it with a joke makes it that much harder to take the explanations the video is giving seriously. (And given the complexity of the material, and how it differs from our instinctive assumptions of how the world works, that sort of trust is not something you should intentionally discard. You are basically implicitly saying "this double slit thing is not <i>really</i> true, don't take this seriously".) Also, as a physicist, I just find it grating. Imagine if you intentionally decided to use the wrong flags in your history videos.

Anonymous

I also found the updog interference pattern sort of confusing and not really helpful in illustrating interference. Educational metaphor / artistic liberty aside, if you actually want to see what wave interference could look like, you necessarily have to go somewhere else. I'm not a physicist.

ExtraCredits

We had previously stated when we first announced this series in Non-Euclidean Geometry that this series had been backed by a "mystery patron" :P

Bill Lemmond

I will have to watch this, again and again, to get it all, because I need to read things. But I already love it. Around 5:26, you totally cracked me up. First, the narrator lost it, then the "Technical Difficulties" screen popped up, followed by Zoe. I love cats, and Zoe included. But I was already laughing hard. That bit is so funny to me that when I slid the progress bar back to find the time signature, I still laughed so hard that I went into a coughing fit. I know you cant do that every time, as it would be needlessly distracting, and would lose its impact. I just want you to know that you bring joy to education. I look forward to sharing this series with friends at the Hack RVA workshop club (not actually evil hackers).

Bill Lemmond

And don't think I don't notice that you take every opportunity to include beans of color, and even female beans, in a too often male-dominated field. And I love it. I've spent a lifetime on the sidelines, often excluded, because of my disabilities. I feel safer, knowing you're slowly chipping away at unconscious ethnocentricity. :)

Anonymous

I was curious to see how you guys would try to graphically represent quantic principals, since they are by definition conter-intuitive. So far you're doing a great work, keep it up ! :)

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