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Best Quantum physics videos, as recommended on Hacker News

55 videos about quantum physics that Hacker News commenters keep recommending, mentioned between 2012 and 2026. Mostly explainer, lecture, talk. Channels that come up most: PBS Space Time, Veritasium, The Royal Institution, Sabine Hossenfelder. Sorted by how consistently HN recommended them over the years.

The most recommended is The Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know: HN commenters repeatedly recommend it as the talk that finally made quantum mechanics click, especially for programmers.

• talkThe Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to KnowGoogle TechTalks · 11 HN recommenders · 2012–2025
• explainerQuantum Entanglement & Spooky Action at a DistanceVeritasium · 9 HN recommenders · 2015–2022
• lectureQuantum Fields: The Real Building Blocks of the Universe - with David TongThe Royal Institution · 5 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
• lectureThe Physics and Philosophy of Time - with Carlo RovelliThe Royal Institution · 5 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
• lectureThe Biggest Ideas in the Universe: IntroductionSean Carroll · 5 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
• lectureDemystifying the Higgs Boson with Leonard SusskindStanford · 3 HN recommenders · 2016–2024
• explainerThe more general uncertainty principle, regarding Fourier transforms3Blue1Brown · 7 HN recommenders · 2019–2025
• explainerVisualization of Quantum Physics (Quantum Mechanics)udiprod · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2021
• lectureParticles, Fields and The Future of Physics - A Lecture by Sean CarrollFermilab · 5 HN recommenders · 2016–2022
• explainerNoether's Theorem and The Symmetries of RealityPBS Space Time · 5 HN recommenders · 2018–2026
• lectureLeonard Susskind on The World As Hologram | TVO DocsTVO Docs · 7 HN recommenders · 2013–2021
• lectureA Brief History of Quantum Mechanics - with Sean CarrollThe Royal Institution · 5 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
• explainerBell's Theorem: The Quantum Venn Diagram Paradoxminutephysics · 8 HN recommenders · 2019–2024
• explainerYour Mass is NOT From the Higgs BosonVeritasium · 4 HN recommenders · 2015–2023
• explainerHow the Quantum Eraser Rewrites the Past | Space Time | PBS Digital StudiosPBS Space Time · 4 HN recommenders · 2017–2025
• lectureEntanglement and Complexity: Gravity and Quantum MechanicsStanford Institute for Theoretical Physics · 4 HN recommenders · 2015–2023
• explainerThe Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser, DebunkedSabine Hossenfelder · 5 HN recommenders · 2021–2026
• explainerPilot Wave Theory and Quantum Realism | Space Time | PBS Digital StudiosPBS Space Time · 4 HN recommenders · 2016–2022
• explainerIs This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?Veritasium · 4 HN recommenders · 2016–2025
• lectureA Portal Special Presentation- Geometric Unity: A First LookEric Weinstein · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
• lectureBlack hole Firewalls - with Sean Carroll and Jennifer OuelletteThe Royal Institution · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2022
• demoSingle particle creates interference after double slit - Wave particle duality at the workshopheligone · 3 HN recommenders · 2015–2021
• explainerDo Complex Numbers Exist?Sabine Hossenfelder · 3 HN recommenders · 2021–2023
• explainerHow the Higgs Mechanism Give Things MassPBS Space Time · 4 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
• lectureLecture 1 | The Theoretical MinimumStanford · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2021
• explainerHawking RadiationPBS Space Time · 3 HN recommenders · 2019–2024
• explainerDo we have to accept Quantum weirdness? De Broglie Bohm Pilot Wave Theory explainedLooking Glass Universe · 3 HN recommenders · 2017–2020
• lectureLeonard Susskind | "ER = EPR" or "What's Behind the Horizons of Black Holes?" - 1 of 2Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics · 3 HN recommenders · 2015–2023
• explainerHow big is a visible photon?Huygens Optics · 3 HN recommenders · 2021–2025
• podcastConsciousness is Not a Computation (Roger Penrose) | AI Podcast ClipsLex Fridman · 3 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
• explainerThe Higgs Mechanism Explained | Space Time | PBS Digital StudiosPBS Space Time · 3 HN recommenders · 2018–2022
• explainerThe Holographic Universe ExplainedPBS Space Time · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2022
• explainerTurning Waves Into ParticlesHuygens Optics · 2 HN recommenders · 2025–2025
• explainerQuantum Entanglement and the Great Bohr-Einstein Debate | Space Time | PBS Digital StudiosPBS Space Time · 3 HN recommenders · 2016–2022
• interviewThere’s No Wave Function? | Jacob BarandesCurt Jaimungal · 2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026
• explainerThe Strangest Implication of Quantum MechanicsVeritasium · 3 HN recommenders · 2025–2025
• talkDavid Deutsch on Physics Without ProbabilitySimon Benjamin · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2023
• lectureSir Roger Penrose & Dr. Stuart Hameroff: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PHYSICS OF THE BRAINThe Qualcomm Institute · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
• explainerThe Black Hole Information ParadoxPBS Space Time · 2 HN recommenders · 2018–2021
• explainerWhy Quantum Information is Never DestroyedPBS Space Time · 2 HN recommenders · 2019–2021
• explainerQuantum Field Theory visualizedScienceClic English · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2026
• explainerWhy the Muon g-2 Results Are So Exciting!PBS Space Time · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2022
• explainerThe Equation That Explains (Nearly) Everything!PBS Space Time · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2024
• interviewThe Case for String Theory - Sixty SymbolsSixty Symbols · 2 HN recommenders · 2017–2022
• lectureWhat is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?Physics Explained · 2 HN recommenders · 2022–2025
• explainerWas Penrose Right? NEW EVIDENCE For Quantum Effects In The BrainPBS Space Time · 2 HN recommenders · 2024–2026
• explainerDoes Superdeterminism save Quantum Mechanics? Or does it kill free will and destroy science?Sabine Hossenfelder · 2 HN recommenders · 2021–2024
• talkSomething Deeply Hidden | Sean Carroll | Talks at GoogleTalks at Google · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2023
• talkNima Arkani-Hamed: The End of Space-TimeMax-Planck-Institut für Physik · 1 HN recommender · 2022–2025
• explainerSome light quantum mechanics (with minutephysics)3Blue1Brown · 2 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
• explainerAre Black Holes Actually Fuzzballs?PBS Space Time · 1 HN recommender · 2022–2023
• explainerThe Original Double Slit ExperimentVeritasium · 1 HN recommender · 2019–2021
• explainerWhy Parallel Universes Are Probably RealVeritasium · 1 HN recommender · 2020–2025
• demoThe pilot-wave dynamics of walking dropletsMITMathLab · 1 HN recommender · 2016–2017
• explainerHow Physicists Created a Holographic Wormhole in a Quantum ComputerQuanta Magazine · 1 HN recommender · 2022–2024