Quasar Quest | Beyond Astrophysics on Instagram: "Equations describe it but Reality Rejects it 💙 Imagine a shape with no inside and no outside, looping back into itself in such a way that up becomes down and left becomes right. That’s the Klein bottle a surface so strange even physicists say it “shouldn’t” exist in our 3-dimensional world.  Mathematicians discovered this one-sided, boundary-free surface in 1882, thanks to Felix Klein.  The catch? To actually embed it without self-intersection

Quasar Quest | Beyond Astrophysics on Instagram: "Quantum mechanics has a habit of turning ordinary moments into impossible questions. And Schrödinger’s cat is the perfect example: a creature trapped in a state where reality refuses to choose a side. Because in the quantum world, the cat isn’t alive or dead. It exists in both states at once, suspended in pure probability. Only when someone opens the box does the universe finally collapse into a single truth. This thought experiment wasn’t create