5 Concepts Can Help You Understand Quantum Mechanics and Technology — Without Math!

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5 Concepts Can Help You Understand Quantum Mechanics and Technology — Without Math!

Tara Fortier is wearing safety glasses as she reaches into a box of circuitry and other equipment, which emits a green glow.

If you’ve heard or read about quantum mechanics, you may have seen it described as “weird.” Even the great Albert Einstein — one of the founders of quantum mechanics — called certain aspects of the theory “spooky.”

With its wave-like particles and particle-like waves, quantum mechanics certainly challenges our intuitions of how the world works. Accepting what is counterintuitive to us — while striving to learn more — is a very important part of science!

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