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Over the past few decades, the concepts of quantum mechanics have been sprinkled into our common lingo and news headlines in a gradual crescendo. Concepts that were mere theories at the beginning of the last century are now demonstrable facts. As uneasily as we sit with their implications, we carry about their applied technologies daily in our pockets. These concepts have been fascinating for me to study. Though they may seem a bit esoteric to most people, they are becoming ever more personally relevant to our common experiences.  Some concepts that are astounding, but that are increasingly ordinary in our daily lives: We control the quantum jumps of electrons to emit photons of the exact spectrum we want to light our living rooms with. Vice-versa, we use photons of specific spectra to control where we want electrons to go and how we want them to behave. (Photovoltaic effects, common in our technology as the light-emitting diode, also used to detect perturbations caused by the pres...