Day1 of #Quantum30 Challenge

On the first day of this exciting and remarkable journey, I stumbled upon a few YouTube videos. The chronology of the videos is curated by QuantumComputingIndia. The first day revolved around the Bing Bang Theory and how atoms are formed.

The first video was a TEDx Talk: “We’re All Stardust — And Why That Should Make You Feel Awesome” by the ever amazing Dr. Natalie Hinkel. Her talk gave me a new perspective on the world. It’s just a 12–13 minute video in which she explains simply how we are nothing but STARDUST, quite literally. The speaker reflects on the statistical odds of our existence, how life is just a mathematical anomaly, about the unique circumstances that led to life on Earth, and how it empowers her to study stars and planets for possible life discovery.

The second video was a bit more technical. “How Did the First Atom Form? Where did it come from?” The speaker, Arvin Ash, talks about what atoms are, how atoms are formed from the Big Bang, and how the Big Bang theory is not an explanation for the actual beginning of the universe but rather a model used to understand the early stages of the universe. This is a very cool resource to understand Big Bang and other related phenomenon like Cosmic Inflation, Cosmic Microwave background and Universe at first 20 minutes of Big Bang.

The third video was a short 5 minute watch, “The Beginning of Everything — The Big Bang” by Kurzgesagt. The video briefly discusses the Big Bang theory, the beginning of the universe, and the formation of galaxies, stars, and atoms. It describes the formation of particles, galaxies, stars, and atoms. The exact origin remains a mystery as we seek to understand our connection to the cosmos.

The final video resource for today is “How Quantum Mechanics Predicts All The Elements” The speaker, Arvin Ash, discusses the structure of atoms and the periodic table based on quantum mechanics. It explains how electrons are arranged in shells around the nucleus, and the Schrodinger equation predicts the electron configurations. The periodic table’s pattern arises from energy-efficient electron filling of shells, leading to different orbitals for each element. The hydrogen atom’s solution helps understand the periodic table, although larger atoms’ solutions are more challenging.

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