Hello everyone and welcome to Mysteries of Science. My name's Stevie and I'm the Deputy Editor of Science and Nature, the monthly magazine from the team behind the week junior.

And I'm Michael, the featured editor. In this show, we explore the strange phenomena and bizarre events that have left scientists scratching their heads.

To celebrate the release of the new Marvel movie Ant Man in the Wasp Quantum Mania,

we're taking a journey into the quantum realm, a tiny universe within our own where the normal rules of physics don't apply.

But we're not alone. We'll be guided on our trip by some expert guests who help us understand the weird and wonderful world of quantum physics.

Okay, everyone, take a deep breath. Are you ready to shrink down to the quantum round?

I think so, Stevie. Here we go. This is Mysteries of Science.

Okay, Michael, here we are in the quantum realm. How do you feel? Um, a little bit smaller.

It's pretty weird for sure, isn't it? What is this place? Well, to understand the quantum realm,

which Ant Man explores in his films, I think first we need to understand what exactly we're

talking about when we talk about quantum mechanics. Luckily, I know just the person to help us out.

Hi, I'm Sabina. I'm a physicist and a YouTuber and an author. I've written a couple of books,

and I currently live in Germany.

Some of you may know Sabina from her YouTube channel, Science Without the Gobbley Gook.

Yes, and did you know that actually we have a YouTube channel as well, Stevie?

Yes, that's right. You can also listen to this episode on YouTube by heading to YouTube.com

forward slash at symbol, Mysteries of Science. In the episode description, you can find a link

to Sabina's YouTube channel. So tell us Sabina what exactly is quantum mechanics?

Quantum mechanics is a way to explain how matter works, basically everything around us,

like all the stuff, like, you know, the table that I sit at on the computer and also the molecules in the air and everything really

is made of small particles, atoms that are held together by something. And to understand exactly

how this works and what properties those atoms have and the molecules that they make up, that's what you need quantum

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