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quantum mechanics

Noun B2 – Upper-Intermediate

The branch of physics that explains how matter and energy behave at the scale of atoms and subatomic particles.

"Quantum mechanics predicts that a particle can behave like a wave until it's actually measured."

Its predictions are famously strange, including the idea that a particle can exist in two states at once until it's observed.