I am a student, and not a very good one; and I studied OLD classical Physics.  So, what am I doing putting out a guide for getting started with NEW Quantum Physics?  Well I am old, have the time, tools and resources to investigate to my pleasure this strange world of entanglement, superposition, uncertainty, tunneling, gravity, and on and on.  In the process of re-educating myself, I have come across some excellent educators; like Richard Feynman, Neil Degrasse Tyson, and a group of youtube science communicators.  Their thoughts are what I have collected into this essay.  I also have found that explanation using words alone do not satisfy me. Infographics resonate within me.  Even better, are physical models that can be investigated in 3 dimensional space.  So I have added images of models produced on my 3D printer, from designs available on a wonderful sharing space called thingiverse.com.  So what follows is an account of my path exploring this wonderful science of new physics.  I have provided links to web sites, images of my models, ponderings of meaning, extrapolations into ocean surfing and musical appreciation, and help in finding and producing the STL files required for making your own models.

My nephew is a California surfer and it is thanks to him that I discovered the Catalina Island Two Slit Experiment surfing location.  The space between the islands, the direction and quality of the incoming waves, and the location of the surfer all add up to a ‘Two slit experiment’ experience. As he says; ‘You feel the interference and combining of the waves.’

Years ago I read “Godel, Escher, and Bach” by Douglas Hofstadter which introduced me to Bach fugues and an appreciation for music and sounds.  My associate, ChatGPT, states that ‘Music trains intuition in patterns, timing, resonance, and interference without demanding visualization of tiny objects.  It teaches comfort with abstraction that is still physically real. Music helps where equations struggle.’.  I continue to search for examples of the Two Slit experiment in music.

I also remember fondly discovering “Flatland” by Edwin A Abbott which has helped my appreciation of the difficulty and joy in exploring the additional dimensions required by new Physics.  The characters in this story experienced the same confusions as we are having imagining extra dimensions. ‘How could a thing move Upward, and not Northward? Upward and not Northward! Even if I were a baby, I could not be so absurd as that. How silly it is! Ha! ha! ha!’

Here are links to several web sites that helped me:

This site provides exploration of a quantum harmonic oscillator.

This site provides simulations of musical waves.

This site enables the exploration of wave and environment conditions on the earth in real time.

This site enables the exploration of wave simulations.

This site provides a study of sound waves.

This site provides a study of the double slit experiment as related to sound waves.

This site provides a look into the life of Richard Feynman.

This site provides Internet Archives of several Richard Feynman conversations.

This site provides a doorway into many conversations with Neil Degrasse Tyson.

Here are images of the 3D models that helped me:

Here is the matrix representing behaviors designed to control the environments impact, related to loss and gain of meaningful parameters. My associate, ChatGPT, describes this matrix as ‘The four Quark modes elegantly parallel distinct strategies for managing risk and reward. Each represents a stable adaptive niche, illustrating how both physics and biology converge on the same underlying principle: systems evolve by balancing energy, entropy, and opportunity. These modes coexist across ecosystems, forming a dynamic equilibrium – just as quark flavors balance the structure of matter. In behavior ecology, this reflects the evolutionary trade-off between safety, growth, cooperation, and exploration.’

This matrix represents the effect of adding TRUTH awareness to the UP, DOWN, STRANGE & CHARM matrix.

This matrix represents the effect of adding BEAUTY awareness to the UP, DOWN, STRANGE & CHARM matrix.

This is a Bloch and Poincare sphere which represents the QuBit foundation for the Quantum Computer

Here are the insides of my Cigar Box collections of interesting wave objects

Here are the outsides of my Cigar Box collections of interesting wave objects

And here is a video of my Time Controller and other stuff

Here are 3D printer files (STL) available for free downloading from Thingiverse.com:

Desktop Qubit – Bloch and Poincare sphere by Gav 

Waves by stevemedwin

Gravitational Waves by Almoturg

Electromagnetic Wave by harchmemory

Two Slit Experiment by Inemzer

Electron Standing Wave Pattern by CFraga

Feynman diagram by Heyakprintstuff

Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model Higgs Bosons by mostlydecaf