As Divya and others have pointed out, the story isn't about the effects of quantum mechanics, but about how humans conceptualize it. I think it does a good job of capturing the feelings at the frontiers of science - to the general public it is opaque and mysterious, to undergraduates it is learnable and solvable, and to researchers it is again mysterious, but for different reasons.
Like Mur, I owe a lot to Women of Wonder...I remember reading this story for the first time when I was 13 years old and loving it because of how humorous and fresh it seemed. Like all the stories in that anthology, it changed my conception of what science fiction could be, and led me to seek out more science fiction short stories, which is how I started listening to Escape Pod soon after.
I have grown up with Escape Pod. For so many years, it has fed my imagination and helped me find new authors to read. Thanks for 600 episodes - may there be many more.