So far in mankind’s history, we’ve lived in a binary world; things are either black or white. They either exist or they don’t.

But quantum physics presents us with the dilemma that particles act differently on the sub-atomic scale: depending upon whether or not there is an observer, there can be either a wave-like or particle-like behavior of matter and radiation. An observer collapses the wave, and induces particle-like behavior out of matter, which would otherwise continue, unobserved, as a wave.  (For an easy-to-grasp animation of this principle, watch this excerpt from the movie "What the BLEEP Do We Know!? ") (more…)