Understanding Quantum Physics

Even in academic circles, quantum physics is regarded as the dark arts of the sciences. This sphere of inconceivably tiny things governs energy and matter at atomic and subatomic levels, describing incredible phenomena such as superposition and entanglement. © Getty We know far less about quantum physics than any of the classical sciences, yet so many of our modern devices - lasers, computers, smartphones, light emitting diodes, MRI scanners, and more - depend on it. In Understanding Quantum Physics, we explore some of its fundamental and sometimes, paradoxical theories, the scientists who pioneered them, and we take a look inside some of the advanced technologies that would simply cease to function without them.