The study of Quantum Physics started in 1900 when physicist Max Planck first introduced the concept to the scientific world. The results of his studies in radiation simply contradicted the classical physical laws, suggesting that there are other laws at work in the universe. Other physicists studying this new concept also noticed photons, tiny packets of light, acting as particles and as waves with single photons exhibiting shape shifting behavior. Imagine going out to your car in the morning and your vehicle taking a gaseous form rather than the solid object you locked last night? It would be just that odd. This has become known as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle when physicist Werner Heisenberg suggested that just by observing quantum matter we affect the behavior of that matter, asserting that there is a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties or complementary variables can be known simultaneously. This idea is later supported by the Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics posed by physicist Niels Bohr. His interpretation states that all quantum particles don’t exist in one state or the other, but in all of its possible states at once. The sum total of all possible states of a quantum object is called the objects Wave Function, and the state of an object existing in all of its possible states at once is called Superposition. Observation breaks an object’s Superposition and forces it to choose one state from its Wave Function. This accounts for why physicists have taken opposite measurements from the same quantum object, as the object can choose different states during different measurements.

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