What Exactly Is “Quantum?” 💭

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“Quantum physics underlies everything — how atoms work, how chemistry works, and why our biology does the things it does.” — Richard Webb, executive director of New Scientist

What Exactly Is “Quantum?”

As you know, many of VST’s products contain quantum technology… but what exactly does that mean?

🔎 Quantum physicists study the behavior of the world at the subatomic level,

🌍 Whereas classic physicists look at big things like objects, motion, and gravity…

🔬 Quantum physicists look at the small things like molecules, atoms, and nuclei,

💫 And they’ve discovered that the world does some miraculous things at the microscopic level…

Particles Can Shapeshift

⚖️  Everything in the universe is either a particle or a wave.

📍 Particles are in a specific spot — like planets, tennis balls, and grains of sand.

🌊 Waves are in many places at once — like a speaker that plays sound for everyone in the room.

🎩 Physicists have found that particles — standing objects — can also behave as waves.

🪄 So imagine you, as a person, being in multiple places at once (like the sound of a speaker).

✨ This is known as “Wave-Particle Duality” and is one of the cornerstones of quantum physics.

Particles Play Peekaboo

♾️ Particles are shapeshifting at all times — turning into waves and then back into particles.

🔬 It’s only when we run an experiment that we know exactly where the particle is.

✋ Making an observation is said to “collapse” or “decohere” the wave, forcing the object into just one of its many possible states.

🤫 For example, an electron will be doing cool things and acting like a wave… but then when we try to watch… it will turn into a single particle.

It’s kind of like the movie Toy Story: the particles come to life and do amazing things… but then as soon as a human comes… they stand still and appear to behave as normal particles.

Particles Can Time Travel

👬 Picture 2 particles — twin particles — that started out in the same object.

☎️ They get split up and are now on other sides of the world — but they still keep in touch.

🪢 This is known as “entanglement” and is at the heart of quantum physics.

💫When two particles become entangled, they remain connected even when separated by vast distances.

“Entangled particles can transmit important information, they can play a lot of quantum games, they can do things beyond what we can do in the classical world.” — Xie Chen, Physics Professor

Summary: There is More Potential than Meets The Eye

When asked to explain quantum physics to a 5-year-old, here’s what Neil DeGrasse Tyson said:

👁️ ”Nobody intuitively understands quantum physics, because our intuition was formed while looking at the big world of rocks and lions and mountains.

🧠  We did not evolve while looking through microscopes at atoms and molecules, so our brains cannot comprehend what happens at these levels.

✨ So we just have to embrace that the most successful theory of the universe… it defies common sense.” — Neil Degrasse Tyson (link)

🌍 In other words… quantum physics makes no sense

👁️ When we look at the world through our conventional understanding, we see particles that are stuck in one form, stuck in one place, and stuck in one point in time.”

💫 But when we understand quantum… we see particles that can shapeshift, teleport and time travel.

♾️ There is so much more potential when we look at things at the quantum level.

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