Time to grab your tinfoil hat. Of course physicists don't understand Quantum Mechanics, it has been classified in 1964. Before that time we didn't really have

Time to grab your tinfoil hat. Of course physicists don't understand Quantum Mechanics, it has been classified in 1964. Before that time we didn't really have the computational resources to use the alternate model efficiently. You've got to remember we are talking about the technology which make nukes. What if the physics world was as simple as the one we teach in high school, a simple classical world with a twist. In the 1950s there were even science kits for kids with Uranium. We were on the track towards a world with clean infinite energy. Clean, yes, because the first fusion bomb had just been tested, and fusion technology was just around the corner. Then the cold war paranoia made everything change. The Vietnam War brought what ifs ? What if the know how was so simple that any Vietcong could build a nuke ? What if one of those damn pacifists decided to make one at home ? They gathered a few people from Los Alamos to seek council. The tale has it that it was Von Neumann that put the final nail in the coffin of the green world utopia. With machines using its architecture, it would, before a few decades, be simple for everyone to simulate everything from chemistry to atom bombs. It was simply not acceptable. They devised a plan to make sure that was not going to happen. The beauty of science is that once you accept a false result, you can easily disprove the true theories. Then it's just a question of smoke and mirrors (should I say vapor chambers, and single particle detectors ?). Control the experiment results by making sure the experimenters know the theory it needs to prove. That's how in 1964, a crackpot physicist made the world non-local. It was such a success to attract young new people to the field, that those who knew better played along. Of course since then smart people saw through the veil and are thankful for the elders' wisdom to not free the dragon.