You know, the incredible thing about
quantum mechanics, there are many incredible things, but one of them, at least
to me, is that it really works. It is the [science] of
the universe. It describes what’s going on here on Earth and it describes what
happens in the [early] universe that Andrei
studies. And so, when we think about how those building blocks that leon was
just [discussing] fit together to make the world
around us, we use quantum mechanics to describe atoms, nuclei, molecules, light. It is the theory of the
world. And so it’s not surprising that we see it in many everyday [happenings] and many everyday applications. An example
might be the lasers that you see in a compact-disc [machine],
or the supermarket scanner.