I'd tend to agree that it is a leap. I'm just trying to grapple with the implications of the descriptions of reality that physicists report. As a layperson, I can't claim to truly understand the physics of quantum mechanics, but that's how the physicists tell the story. On a quantum level, things exist only as a range possibilities. It is not until the act of measurement, or observation, that their state is fixed. Of course, they might be sexing it up to sell books. :)