The thing about sounding clever at parties, is you only have to know a little bit, because if you say it with enough conviction people will probably believe you're the second coming of Albert Einstein. Plus, chicks dig smart guys (or whatever your nominal gender might be).

Aside from totally bossing the social scene, the weird world of quantum physics is a completely baffling, yet fascinating combination of science and imagination.

Forget the boring science textbooks of your GCSE years, with little diagrams of atoms, this is a world in which mass can be energy, waves can be particles, matter communicates telepathically and birds have a much better grasp on quantum entanglement than we do.

This branch of science is so mind-boggling that Einstein himself found it difficult to wrap his head around, so just imagine how incredibly brainy it's going to make you sound at your next dinner party.

All you need to do is wrap it up in a crazy-sounding opening soundbite and you'll have your audience hooked, so where can we begin?