A lot of research went into the writing of QUANTUM DEATH (Savant 2016) by A. G. Hayes and, yours truly, Raymond Gaynor. In fact, over two years of in-depth research went into just getting a grasp on what is often called #Quantum Strangeness. In particle physics, "strangeness" is a property of very small particles like quarks and is expressed as a quantum number. These numbers have names as well, like strangeness, charm, topness and bottomness. In a more general sense, however, the physics of very small particles is in the general sense, "strange." 

For example, quantum physics allows for a single unique particle to momentarily exist in two different locations (quantum simultaneity). Furthermore, if one particle changes, so does the other (quantum entanglement). Even more interesting, there are an infinite number of a single unique particle in an infinite number of universes. In fact, in some universes that particle never existed and perhaps never will exist. One of great "mind experiments" reflecting some of these quantum characteristics is #Schroedinger'sCat. A cat is placed in a box with a bomb that is programmed to explode at a random time. In a sense, without opening the box, the cat may be alive or dead at any moment. While all this may sound far beyond strange, scientists are already working to exert control over these properties, for example, instantaneous #teleportation. In QUANTUM DEATH, brilliant Cerebrus scientist Kate Keenan, uses these properties to attempt to avert the final "event" in a series, the event that will bring the USA to its knees. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/6546462/The-10-weirdest-physics-facts-from-relativity-to-quantum-physics.html