SCIENCE - Scicurious Guest Writer! Quantum Machines Become Reality

As a child, I would close my eyes and think that everyone else was plunged into darkness too. It doesn’t take long to realize that, actually, the rest of the world remains the same whether you’re looking at it or not. But twenty years and a physics degree later I’ve started to ask that same question I thought I solved at age three; do things really stay the same when we aren’t looking at them? According to quantum mechanics, the answer is no.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/2013/08/28/scicur