From a distance, the world makes sense-
Your desk is solid, your hand moves through the air, time moves forward and life seems………….normal.
But zoom in - really really close, down to the level of atoms and particles and that’s where everything falls apart.
Electrons vanish and appear. Partials exist multiple places at once.
Time? Wobbly. Matter? Kinda fuzzy. Reality? Not as real as it looks.
Quantum physics is what happens when you stop trusting the zoomed-out version of life and ask:
What’s actually going on beneath the surface?
Quantum physics- what does it study?
It looks at the smallest building blocks of the universe — the stuff too tiny for your eyes or microscope to see.
And those tiny things? They don’t behave like solid objects. They behave like possibilities.
They’re moody, mysterious, and honestly… kinda magical.
Schrödinger’s cat - dead? Alive? Or both?
Let’s say you put a cat in a sealed box (don’t worry, this is just a thought experiment). There’s a 50/50 chance it dies from some quantum event.
Now here’s the twist: Until you open the box, quantum physics says the cat is both dead and alive — existing in a weird combo state called superposition.
Yeah. Basically, the cat is vibing in two realities at once.
The universe doesn’t pick an outcome until someone checks.
Superposition- particles can’t decide
In the quantum world, an electron isn’t in one place. It’s in all possible places at once — until someone measures it. Then boom — it “chooses” one spot. Tiny particles are basically playing hide and seek with science.
Observation = reality You = the final decision maker of the universe?
Why does it actually matter?
Because this is the real engine behind lasers, phones, GPS, and the computers you’re reading this on.
Because it’s building the future — quantum computing, teleportation research, and who knows — maybe a totally new way of understanding consciousness.
And mostly, because it reminds us:
Just because something looks normal doesn’t mean it is.
Reality is just one perspective… until you zoom in.
Another experiment you can learn about :
The double split experiment
https://youtube.com/shorts/N3W3n3eIHBU?si=HImBpgwHY4o0krwu
Stay casually curious
The next time someone says “that’s just how things are”, ask them…..
Are you looking close enough.
Well written. Your mind bending topics are new normal for me 😊
Quantum science indeed is something that perhaps may give us answers to mythology.
But it’s hard for current understanding of science because it needs us to unlearn a lot of things before we can comprehend it
Thank you and looking forward to more such articles