Quantum And Solace -

Quantum mechanics offers the principle of superposition —the ability of a particle to exist in all possible states simultaneously until it is observed. An electron does not have to choose a spin; it holds all spins at once.

Quantum mechanics, however, famously requires the observer. The act of measurement—of looking, of caring, of paying attention—collapses the wave-function from a ghost of probability into a particle of reality. quantum and solace

In Quantum of Solace , the James Bond film, the title refers to the smallest amount of emotional comfort a person can give another. Perhaps that is what quantum physics gives us: a tiny, strange, but profound comfort. The act of measurement—of looking, of caring, of

The solace here is for the grieving. When someone we love dies, classical physics tells us they are gone—matter separated from matter. But quantum mechanics leaves the door ajar. If information is never truly destroyed (the "no-deletion theorem"), and if particles that have interacted remain forever correlated, then no connection is ever truly broken. The solace here is for the grieving

But what if we have been looking at it wrong? What if, buried within the quarks and the wave-functions, there is not just confusion, but ?