I can't tell if you're joking, but in case you aren't: To treat them as a view of what is "really happening" is a bit misleading, especially to an audience tha

I can't tell if you're joking, but in case you aren't: To treat them as a view of what is "really happening" is a bit misleading, especially to an audience that is not intimately familiar with the oddities of quantum mechanics. There is no simplified layman's view of any complex subject which is not at least a bit misleading. And at the very least, some justification for ignoring the higher level Feynman diagrams needs to be offered Audience. The post starts out by mentioning that he's talking only about stuff that could be done by school children, or the whole family. It's a bit tongue-in-cheek, but I didn't get the impression that he was completely unserious about that.