[sparklite2]

““If we tell the public that quantum theory is weird, we better go out and test that’s actually true,” he says. “Otherwise we’re not doing science, we’re just explaining some funny squiggles on a blackboard.””

The classic wave-slit experiment showing photons are both waves and particles isn’t a test? And doesn’t show weird?

And if “spooky action at a distance,” which also can be tested, isn’t weird, then what does this guy want? Particles to wear spandex and sing “Springtime for Hitler”?

[katana]

Wonder if the motivation behind this is to back away from physics which imply that all that we perceive as tangible reality is dependent upon an overriding Consciousness bringing it into "existence" Planck moment (10-44 seconds) to Planck moment? After all, a century of experimentation that established Quantum Physics as true, no matter (pun intended) how counterintuitive it seems to our mind and senses, can't be allowed to dissuade people from their faith in Atheism.

Yet in the whole of the universe there is no force that is either intelligent or eternal, and we must therefore assume that behind this force there is a conscious, intelligent Mind or Spirit. This is the very origin of all matter.” (Planck, as cited in Eggenstein 1984, Part I; see “Materialistic Science on the Wrong Track”).

[Reeses]

The classic wave-slit experiment showing photons are both waves and particles isn’t a test? And doesn’t show weird?

Here's a much less weird explanation: Fluid Tests Hint at Concrete Quantum Reality

Interpretations typically give up on either causality or locality. However if entangled waves are sharing the same location in an extra dimension we can't normally see then pilot wave theory could keep both.

All mathematical models are wrong but some are useful. For example infinities common in mathematics just don't exist anywhere in reality. The standard model is very obviously wrong, but has been very useful.