Quantum Physics in Your Pocket
Like Duolingo, but for Quantum Physics in Your Pocket. Tomo turns the whole topic into a game you play five minutes a day, until it actually sticks.
For the part of you with thirty open tabs that never became anything.
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Key ideas in Quantum Physics in Your Pocket
- Light is made of individual packets called photons
- Energy is not a continuous stream but comes in countable units
- Atoms must absorb energy to reach an excited state
- Excited atoms release energy when triggered by another photon
- The released energy matches the triggering photon exactly
- The discrete nature of light energy
- The process of stimulated emission in an atom
- Laser photons are identical in color and timing
- Synchronization allows the light to stay in a tight beam over long distances
- Normal light spreads out and gets 'blurry', losing data
- Synchronized laser pulses stay sharp and distinct over thousands of miles
- Why synchronized light is essential for data transmission
- Quantum jumps produce light that doesn't spread out like a bulb
- The defining characteristic of laser light (coherence)
- The precision of the energy jump determines the precision of the tool
- The practical application of precise quantum energy jumps
You've tried the other tabs
Thirty open tabs. Four facts you actually kept.
You watched. You nodded. By Sunday it was gone.
One answer, then back to scrolling.
Eight weeks. You meant to finish. You didn't.
Tomo gives Quantum Physics in Your Pocket the Duolingo treatment: levels, streaks, and quick quizzes that test what you just learned. That game loop is what the tabs above never had, so it's the one you actually finish.
Here's what playing it feels like
A real question from this course. Take your best guess.
If you could zoom in on a beam of light until you saw its smallest possible parts, what would you find?
Get it right to open this lesson and 11 more in the app.
Where Quantum Physics in Your Pocket takes you
Discover how the strange rules of the subatomic world power the technology you use every day, from your smartphone to the GPS in your car.
- 1
The Quantum Tech in Your Hands
- The Laser: Light in Lockstep
- The Transistor: The World's Tiniest Switch
- 2
Quantum Navigation and Medicine
- MRI and Atomic Timekeeping
- The Future: Entanglement and Beyond
2 sections · 4 units · 12 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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Quantum Physics in Your Pocket is taught in the The Bestie style: your friend who just gets it. Want a different feel? In the app you can spin up the same topic in any of Tomo's teaching styles. Same facts, totally different vibe.
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