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To: Sherman Logan; Squidpup
Quantum mechanics is very strange.

"Might I say immediately, ... that we always have had (secret, secret, close.the doors!) we always have had a great deal of difficulty in understanding the world view that quantum mechanics represents. At least I do, because I'm an old enough man that I haven't got to the point that this stuff is obvious to me. Okay, I still get nervous with it. And therefore, some of the younger students ... you know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem. So that's why I like to investigate things." - Richard Feynman

Feynman actually came along after quantum mechanics was very much developed, yet even he admitted to having a problem developing an intuitive feel for it.

11 posted on 05/13/2009 7:38:36 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded

I have never spoken to or read anything by someone who claims they intuitively understand quantum mechanics.

I suspect it isn’t something that fits well with the way the human brain works.


12 posted on 05/13/2009 8:10:29 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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