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Both Here and There: A Beginner’s Guide to Quantum Superposition

  🌀 Quantum Superposition Explained: How Something Can Be Two Things at Once 🎩 Welcome to the Weird World of Quantum Physics Imagine flipping a coin. You throw it in the air, and while it spins, someone asks: “Is it heads or tails?” You’d probably say, “We don’t know yet. We’ll see when it lands.” But now imagine this: In the quantum world, that coin doesn’t just land on heads or tails. Until you look at it, it’s both heads and tails at the same time . Welcome to the bizarre but beautiful world of quantum superposition — where particles break the rules of everyday logic and do things your high school physics teacher never warned you about. 🧠 What Is Quantum Superposition? In the simplest terms: Quantum superposition means a particle can be in multiple possible states at the same time , and only when you measure or observe it does it "decide" what state it's in. This is not science fiction. This is quantum mechanics — the science that governs the tiniest ...