Brian Cox quantum mechanics
par Katrina Karan: Science
Brian Cox breaks down quantum mechanics in 60 seconds
Transcription (en)
Can you explain quantum mechanics in 60 seconds? But the smallest scale of reality, things don't behave the way we expect. In our everyday world, objects have clear positions, clear paths. But in quantum mechanics, particles don't have a single definite state. They exist in probabilities. That means a particle can be in multiple places at once until you measure it. and the strange part is the act of observing it changes what it does. There's also something called entanglement, where two particles become linked so that changing one instantly affects the other. And even if they're far apart, it sounds impossible, but it's been tested again and again. So quantum mechanics tells us something very unsettling. At the deepest level, reality isn't fixed. It's uncertain and only becomes definite when we interact with it.
