QuantumQuantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet, it has been said that if you're not shocked by it, you don't understand it. But is quantum physics really so unknowable? Is reality really so strange? And just how can cats be half alive and half dead at the same time? Our journey into the quantum begins with nature's own conjuring trick, in which we discover that atomscontrary to the rules of