Don't get me wrong, though. I make no pretense to understanding the full complexities of quantum physics and I will be the first to admit that even AFTER it's explained to me in lay terms, I STILL don't quite grasp the entirety of it. But perhaps that is why I love it so much. It absolutely fascinates me because it just doesn't make sense! Yet, as nonsensical as it is, it is the answer I have been looking for all along.

 

A CHILD'S RELATIONSHIP WITH QUANTUM PHYSICS

To me, quantum physics provides the scientific data which validates what I have been feeling my entire life: that nothing is as we see it. I have always felt that the doll I played with as a child was not really a doll, the bed I slept in was not really a bed, and the body I experienced growing was not really a body, nor was it really growing. I always knew that the way things appeared, their shapes, colors and textures, were not really how they existed in their true state. I used to hold my doll in front of me, stare at it for hours and try to will my eyes to see inside it, through it, and beyond it, to its core state. It never worked, of course, and as a child, how do you explain this to someone else? How do you explain it to yourself? You don't. You can't. You learn that others will look at you strange if you talk about it. So you just hold it in and feel what you feel and know what you know to yourself.

And now, as an adult, I no longer have to hold it in. I can scream it at the top of my lungs if I want and it doesn't matter what strange looks I get. And with the insurgence of quantum theory and its subsequent study, I am one step closer to understanding what I have always known, but could not explain.

 

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