#### Title: The other thing in the Box with the cat in Quantum mechanics, explained by Scientists

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We often think of things as either being, or be-isn't. But scientists say that now, things just ain't that simple anymore. When we see light reflected off a surface, the electrons in the atoms in the light are becoming energized, causing them to have "different eneregy levels" according to scientists. The jumps between these energy levels create light, which we use to see. But why do atoms have "energy levels" in the first place? This, scientists say, is because the electrons can only do certain things, kinda like how chess pieces can only make certain moves. But electrons don't just take one move, they can take multiple moves at once, due to wibbly-wobbly quantum weirdness, as Dr Who would call it.

But before your head explodes, it gets even *weirder*, these states have two parts to them, we can just call them up-down and left-right. And while the combination of the up-down and left-right parts of a single state is constant, when you combine the up-down and left-right states of different states, it changes over time! wowzer! This is especially true for the particles in boxes, which scientists love. Not because there's cats in the box, but because in Quantum mechanics, the whole universe is made of them, in a way.
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