Top Highlights

• The overarching lesson that has emerged from scientific inquiry over the last century is that human experience is often a misleading guide to the true nature of reality.
• The universe, according to quantum mechanics, is not etched into the present; the universe, according to quantum mechanics, participates in a game of chance.
• Quantum mechanics challenges this view by revealing, at least in certain circumstances, a capacity to transcend space; long-range quantum connections can bypass spatial separation. Two objects can be far apart in space, but as far as quantum mechanics is concerned, it’s as if they’re a single entity.
• The speed of light, Einstein declared, is 670 million miles per hour relative to anything and everything.
• Space and time adjust themselves in an exactly compensating manner so that observations of light’s speed yield the same result, regardless of the observer’s velocity.