> In time we’ll look back at current iterations of the standard model and our understanding of the physics of the small and wonder... I’m not sure about that.

> In time we’ll look back at current iterations of the standard model and our understanding of the physics of the small and wonder... I’m not sure about that. Everything we have to analogize to and obtain an intuition about relates to the macro world. There’s no reason the quantum phenomena have any analog to what we experience on a daily basis. That is, all the cosmological models from Ptolemy, epicycles, heliocentric, and even Newton’s derivations were arrived at by analogy to things we already experience. To be sure, Principia Mathematica is dense, but Newton’s derivation of the effects of an inverse-squared force can be followed by, ultimately, grasping Euclid’s Elements (which in turn can be grasped through familiarity with a compass and straightedge.) I recall a Feynman interview where he was asked why magnets repel. And, he explained there is no analogy that can help ones understanding, as the behavior of anything you’d use in your analogy is ultimately governed by the same principles that make magnets repel.