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But quantum theory adds a whole new wrinkle.
This result, that light sometimes behaves like a particle and sometimes behaves like a wave, led to a revolutionary new physics theory called quantum mechanics.
Nowadays, we test the speed of computers by having them calculate pi, and quantum computers have been able to calculate it up to two quadrillion digits.
One was Einstein's theory of relativity, the other was arguably even more revolutionary: quantum mechanics, a mind-meltingly strange yet stunningly successful new way of understanding the microworld, the world of atoms and particles.
It's thanks to relativity and quantum mechanics that we've learned what the universe is made from, how it began and how it continues to evolve.
Relativity and quantum mechanics appear to suggest that the universe should be a boring place.
Relativity and quantum mechanics tell us that it has two natural settings, a bit like a light switch.
Now, if you use good old quantum mechanics to work out how strong dark energy should be, you get an absolutely astonishing result.
The hope was that a complete combination of Einstein's general theory of relativity, which is the theory of the universe at grand scales, with quantum mechanics, the theory of the universe at small scales, might provide a solution.
The answer involves a bit of quantum mechanics, but don't worry, we'll start with a rainbow.
This is where we enter the quantum realm.
But systems on the scale of atoms behave according to the laws of quantum mechanics.
This quantum world turns out to be a very strange place.
In quantum physics, we could say that before our observation the cat was in a superposition state.
The same sort of thing happens to physical systems at quantum scales, like an electron orbiting in a hydrogen atom.
This brings us to the strange and beautiful phenomenon of quantum entanglement.
But here's the cool thing: quantum mechanics tells us it's possible to erase the both cats alive and both cats dead outcomes from the superposition state.
But there's something truly mindblowing about quantum entanglement.
But it turns out that quantum entanglement has been confirmed in real world lab experiments.
It's not surprising then that entanglement is at the core of quantum information science, a growing field studying how to use the laws of the strange quantum world in our macroscopic world, like in quantum cryptography, so spies can send secure messages to each other, or quantum computing, for cracking secret codes.
Everyday physics may start to look a bit more like the strange quantum world.
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is one of a handful of ideas from quantum physics to expand into general pop culture.
In quantum mechanics, the exact position and exact speed of an object have no meaning.
Wavelength is essential for quantum physics because an object's wavelength is related to its momentum, mass times velocity.
By combining waves with different wavelengths, which means giving our quantum object some possibility of having different momenta.
That's a quantum object with both wave and particle nature, but to accomplish this, we had to lose certainty about both position and momentum.
He found quantum physics so philosophically disturbing, that he abandoned the theory he had helped make and turned to writing about biology.
If it weren't possible for quantum objects to be in two states at once, the computer you're using to watch this couldn't exist.
The quantum phenomenon of superposition is a consequence of the dual particle and wave nature of everything.
The answer lies 12,000 miles over your head in an orbiting satellite that keeps time to the beat of an atomic clock powered by quantum mechanics.
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