We don't know what it's about
like I mean Einstein hated it.
He just, you know, it turns out
everything he thought,
everything he thought about quantum mechanics
turned out to be wrong. He thought it was
incomplete but he had
a right his heart, it's just weird and
there's no understanding
I mean that's my, that's my opinion and
yes, 
I talk about the subject all the time
to the public and I
I can, I can describe quantum mechanics to my grandmother.
It has two rules and there's no math. The two rules are that
quantum things can be in these funny
states of superposition. The bit we mentioned before zero-one
a quantum bit can be zero
and one at same time because it's
a wave theory.
It, there are many wave theories we find in
nature,
sound waves, water waves. When you play two
notes on the piano
you're ear perceives both notes at the
same time
and you can think of that as deriving
from the wave properties
of the complex wave that hits your ear.
You hear both notes.
That's rule number one and by itself it's not
revolutionary,
not incredibly interesting really, it's a wave
theory.
The math can get arbitrarily
complicated there
and people tend to get, when quantum
mechanics is taught
in universities it's taught from that
perspective you
go through the math of solving the wave
equation but look I mean the wave
equation for waterways is
just as complicated and by going through
more and more math you're not gonna
really understand too much more about
waves. We all know that at the beach the
waves you know they they grow and then they
turnover and they crash.
Very complex mathematics describing that, but
there's no more understanding of what's
going to happen. So,
this brings me to rule number two,
which is really the bizarre thing.
Rule number one saya that you can have
these
fuzzy states. Things can be in two
states. This cup can be in two places at the
same time. That's what quantum mechanics says.
If it's a way that has you know has a funny way of here and there.
Rule number two though, it says that rule
number one only works when you're not looking.
That's it. And when you do look it pops
into one or the other randomly.
Okay, so, those are the two rules you take
'em or leave 'em. There's no understanding.
They're, they're exclusive rules they
don't, you can't derive one from the other.
In physics we hate that. Einstein wanted
you know, one law
to describe everything and he couldn't do it. 
He failed doing that.
Nobody has really unified those two
rules so we live with it.
And those are Layman's rules. They're rules
that I, I mean that that's how I think of quantum mechanics.
So, there doesn't have to be any math. It's
just super weird because it involves,
when you, when you look at such a
superposition of two states it changes it
just by looking at it and so this, this
is
what's been. There are many ways to cast
what's weird about quantum mechanics. One way is to
say that the observer plays a special
role. That's the only theory of all,
all of nature where the act of observing
changes the system itself.
So, some people have gone off the deep
end and thought about consciousness and how
there must be quantum mechanics in the brain. I don't know what to say about that. That's just the way it is
and with those two rules you can pretty much
derive anything you want.
You can, you can derive, you can make
circuits and compute things in ways you couldn't before.
