I remember a physicist saying that those folks do show up in classes and start the class talking about how excited they are to learn about QM, and they disappear after a few weeks and drop the course.

there should be a class that is just low-math "implications of QM on natural philosophy" to satisfy those with the curiousity but not the inclinations towards heavy math.

At the very least the class should be able to get through the two-slit experiment, EPR, and Bell's tests with a clear point being that nobody currently understands "how" entanglement works at the physical level.

Yeah, I agree with the GP comment, but QM is a bad example. It is not an approachable subject by any means. I don't say that as somebody who knows it, I know people with physics PhDs than confirm that a layperson is just not going to be able to learn anything useful about it without doing the equivalent work of a degree/masters etc.

It might have been just Modern Physics (3rd semester in my university). The student should have had the prereqs at least.

"Modern Physics" is a much better name for it. At my university it was called "Physics for Engineers" and was a mix of quantum mechanics and relativity.

I always found the name weird because it didn't seem particularly geared towards engineering needs.

The average person is unlikely to have even a basic grasp of college algebra, let alone be able to understand complex valued wave functions/matrices.

Your comment is seriously trivializing that experience. Studying quantum mechanics is a multi year effort of serious study for them, not just taking a course on edx.

Why do you even bother to comment when you you don't bother to actually read what I wrote? That alone would have been sufficient, but I also posted this link specifically: https://www.edx.org/course/quantum-mechanics-for-everyone

> ...the basic ideas of quantum mechanics with a method that requires no complicated math beyond taking square roots

A 6 week online course, taken at your leisure.

Please do read comments before you reply, next time. I don't need another reddit.

It's not about putting in years of effort for a Master in Physics - it's about using the effort already invested, but instead of always not-learning, just START taking even the most basic course. I linked one, and such are very easy to find.

Sorry, but such an arrogant reply makes me a bit mad. I provided good links and you ignored everything - thereby helping to support exactly my point. People are lazy, even with good resources available at their fingertips, or even in front of them, not reading what the author wrote but what their own brain after lots of processing and filtering very freely interprets into it.

> the basic ideas of quantum mechanics with a method that requires no complicated math beyond taking square roots

False^

From the faq:

> Q: What level of math is needed for this class?

> A: High school algebra and trigonometry.

the average person does not have this level of mathematics mastered

I’m sure the content is good, but I have no way to evaluate that without actually going through the course. I still highly doubt it’s claim that you’ll learn qm “better than Einstein” from it.