In Quantum of Solace , the James Bond film, the title refers to the smallest amount of emotional comfort a person can give another. Perhaps that is what quantum physics gives us: a tiny, strange, but profound comfort.

Quantum mechanics, however, famously requires the observer. The act of measurement—of looking, of caring, of paying attention—collapses the wave-function from a ghost of probability into a particle of reality.

This is the ultimate solace. It implies that

It tells us that uncertainty is not a flaw in the universe; it is the engine of it. It tells us that we are connected across any distance. And it tells us that to look at something is to love it into being.

So, embrace the quantum. Stop trying to collapse your own wave-function too soon. Live in the superposition. Accept the entanglement. And find your solace in the beautiful, terrifying, liberating fact that nothing is certain—and therefore, everything is possible.