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The Cat Is Dead: Enjoy These Three Music Videos About Theoretical Physics

Backreaction's Sabine Hossenfelder​ offers a synthwave tour of the hard questions.

I really like Sabine Hossenfelder's writings about quantum physics at her blog Backreaction, but I have to confess I've been somewhat out of the physics loop for a few months. In the interim, I missed not one but three new music videos featuring Hossenfelder's music and explanations. They're musical physics explainers that come with short non-musical explainers at the end of each video. Topics include quantum entanglement, virtual particles, and relativity.

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The videos were funded in part by grants from the Foundational Questions Institute, which also partially funds Hossenfelder's research on spacetime defects. Enjoy.

For those seeking something a bit heavier, check out Cavity's "Supercollider."

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