title: The Quantum World: The Disturbing Theory at the Heart of Reality
author:  New Scientist 
description: Since the first magazine was published in 1956, New Scientist has established a world-beating reputation for exploring and uncovering the latest developments and discoveries in science and technology, placing them in context and exploring what they mean for the future. Each week through a variety of different channels, including print, online, social media and more, New Scientist reaches over four million highly engaged readers - over a million readers for the print magazine alone.
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  To Staci:
  
  
  you make it possible . . .
  
  
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  To Irv and Lonni,
  
  
  who live among the stars . . .
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  SPOOKY ACTIONS AT A DISTANCE
  
  
  Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it.
  
  
  —Niels Bohr
  
  
  Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
  
  
  —Leonardo da Vinci
  
  
  We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe.
  
  
  —Stephen Hawking
  
  
  Quantum physics thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe.
  
  
  —Erwin Schrödinger
  
  
  Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it.
  
  
  —Albert Einstein
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  