ATOM and understanding the Universe

...The ATOM was the name of the BBC documentary three part series that concluded the other evening.

Am I alone in being absolutely mesmorized by the facts, theories, mathematics and conclusions that were drawn by this series, the trouble was that I had no idea what they were talking about most of the time. With a vocabulary of words including Quantum, Electron, Mass Energy etc... I was eventually left with this less technical example of how to think of it below: -

Example of how to understand the Universe
In order to understand the universe, all I had to do was undestand their simple analogy which was to stick a cat in a box facing the prospect of being poisoned with a cyanide contraption. While you dont raise the lid of the box, the cyanide contraption is "deciding whether to activate of not" so the cat would be both in great health AND dead from the cyanide at the same time. However, as soon as I lifted the lid, either the poisoning would have taken place or not, so only one would then be true.

I am not making this up by the way. It is real and called Schrödinger's cat.

Anyway, with this and other ideas such as, ...we are living in one of an infinite number of parallel universes with an infinite number of myselves (thats not a word I use often) typing random keys etc, its a wonder the churches are not full of people that would much rather believe in the less farfetched idea of an all powerful being that makes it all OK in the end.