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As a layperson, there just seems to be a general discomfort with qm because it's not 'intuitive' or isn't close enough to our subjective experience of everyday
by lawpoop 11y ago
As a layperson, there just seems to be a general discomfort with qm because it's not 'intuitive' or isn't close enough to our subjective experience of everyday reality.
As someone who is bad at math and physics, the complaints don't seem all that different than first-year students scoffing at imaginary numbers, or centrifugal force. You don't "get it" -- so what? Why should the universe be easy to understand? QM just seems like more of the same.
People could handle heliocentricity, then the galaxy, then the universe, but for whatever reason, QM is just a bridge too far. Too weird, I guess.