Descend into the subatomic world of quantum mechanics and we find a strange place populated by cocktails of elementary particles: charm quarks, buckyballs, muons and bosons. Whisky concoctions share equally colourful names such as Manhattans, Old Fashioneds and Juleps. Where whisky lives in a more secular sphere, quantum existence is a world of probability and duality. Everyday light is both a particle and quanta of energy, simultaneously a photon and wave. What you observe, where you observe it, and how it is measured renders it this, or that, or both at the same time.
What’s seen upon descending into the whisky world, to the drinkers’ level, also varies depending on how, where, and when you observe a hundred million whisky drinkers – all with differing modes of consumption, as they…
