![]() ![]() But this image is all wrong! Instead, we have to try and imagine an electron simultaneously existing in infinitely many places all around the nucleus. For example, when we think about an electron in the hydrogen atom, we are tempted to imagine it as a small satellite swiftly rotating around a heavy atomic nucleus. And, of course, we cannot talk about the quantum Wonderland without mentioning that a quantum object might (and usually does) exist at a few different places at the same time. In the quantum realm the two particles, separated by miles or even light years, somehow keep in touch via the link we call quantum entanglement. Instead, it appears to traverse all possible trajectories between these points – every single one! In this strange realm the items might vanish right in front of an impenetrably high barrier – only to materialize on the other side (this is called quantum tunneling). ![]() For example, in the quantum realm, a particle does not journey from point A to point B along some predetermined path. The fact of the matter is, the principles of quantum mechanics are so bizarre and unintuitive, they seem to be utterly incompatible with our inherent common sense. At the same token, this wizard of science would probably look and act crazier than a March Hair and Mad Hatter combined. ![]() If scientific theories were like human beings, the anthropomorphic quantum mechanics would be a miracle worker, a brilliant wizard of engineering, capable of fabricating almost anything, be it a laser or a complex integrated circuit. Is the universe as a whole a quantum object or a classical one? Artyom Yurov and Valerian Yurov argue the universe is a quantum object, interacting with other quantum universes, with surprising consequences for our theories about dark matter and dark energy. The collapse of the wave-function prevents classical objects from doing the weird things quantum objects do like quantum entanglement or quantum tunneling. Quantum objects make up classical objects. ![]()
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