Quantum Physics 101
Quantum physics is like trying to find your car keys. You look high and low, but they might be in the quantum superposition of the couch cushion and the coffee table.
But seriously, quantum physics is a thing that's really, really good at math, and also really, really bad at being understood by humans.
- Wave function: The mathematical description of the probability of finding your car keys. (Or, in the case of Schrödinger's cat, the probability of finding a cat in a box.)
- Superposition: The state of being in multiple places at once, like when you're simultaneously on the couch and at the fridge.
- Entanglement: When you're stuck to someone else's fate, like when you and your significant other are stuck in a never-ending loop of arguing over whose turn it is to do the dishes.
- Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle: The uncertainty principle that you'll never find your car keys, and also that you'll probably find them on the kitchen counter, but only if you look really hard.