Re: quantum mechanics makes perfect sense


"PD" <TheDraperFamily@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: On Jul 30, 2:09 pm, variable <7g56f4...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: > a man wiser than myself once said, that if someone
: > would publicly pretend understanding quantum mechanics,
: > he dont understand quantum mechanics
: >
: > amazingly everybody here really understanding
: > quantum mechanics
:
:
: There's a difference between being able to visualize what's going on
: and being able to do something useful with it. Physicists "understand"
: quantum mechanics to the point where if they do a calculation with it,
: taking on faith that nature really does work that way, and then
: compare that calculation with an experimental measurement, then that
: comparison matches to 12 digit accuracy. When a physicist sees that
: kind of success, not being able to describe it with analogies from
: common experience or intuitively visualize it doesn't seem so
: important.
:
: Intuitive visualization isn't all that it's cracked up to be. It is
: too firmly ingrained with our narrow sensory exposure to the teeny
: fraction of the universe that we inhabit. Part of the art of being a
: physicist is having other tools by which you can still describe nature
: just where intuitive visualization fails.
:
: PD

"Einstein does not play dice, he's chicken." -- God


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