[Video Description: A drag queen â who is credited as Amrou Al-Kadhi / Glamrou, a drag performer, writer, and filmmaker â stands in front of a microphone and explains,
âQuantum physics is this incredible sect of of physics, which basicallyâŚ
With like, Newtonian physics â I think of it as heteronormative physics â where its basically âWhat are the fixed universal principles that govern the world? If I do A, will B happen? What are the formulas thatâll tell us anywhere in the universe, âWhat will happen if I input this?ââ
Quantum physics is equally a ârealâ sect of physics that basically looks at subatomic particles â so the very smallest things in our universe, not the macro things â and they contradict basically everything that Newtonian physics shows us. So, the most famous experiment is the Double Slit Experiment, where you fire an electron and it should go through the left or right hole. And then every now and then, it goes through both at the same time. And we donât really know why. And sometimes, the same subatomic particle is in different locations at the same times.
And quantum physics shows that actually reality itself is basically a majority approximation of whatâs happening sub-atomically. So when people spew the biological essentialism argument on me. Like, particles themselves are non-binary, and do things that contradict each other all the time, we just canât see them all the time. And that gives me a lot of comfort, that if subatomic particles defy constructs all the time, why should we believe in fixed constructs of gender, or any kind of reality?â END DESCRIPTION]
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