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Excellent Series on Quantum Physics

Overcoming Bias, the blog from Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University, has an excellent series on one of my favourite subjects: quantum physics.

The main point of the series is making out a more comprehensible view on the subject, as quantum physics is usually regarded as extremely difficult. The point is, it is not difficult but is against common intuition as we as humans are prisoners of our limited senses.

The introduction also makes a good point on teaching physics: we should start from quantum physics instead of classical physics and thus progress from the real underlying theories to the generalizations. I think there is some truth to that as quantum theory is not hard, it just involves a different approach to physical systems.