The Quantum Mechanics (QM) is established branch of physics with about 100 years of history behind it and countless technological implementations. I want to state clearly at the beginning of this post that I am aware and appreciate enormous contribution of QM as well as Solid State Physics to development of truly innovative discrete (digital) technologies in optics (laser, LED, photo voltaic cells, etc.) and electronics (superconductivity, semiconductor components etc.).
AUTHOR’S NOTE: When I wrote this essay based mostly on my own work in the field many decades ago and work by Richard von Mises famous book, “Probability, Statistics and Truth” 1957 and his critique of common, popular misinterpretation of Quantum Mechanics [among other issues of modern science] I was not aware of several works by another quantum physicist that as myself tried to dispel myths about this quite strange branch of science.
Especially two books from 2014, 2017 by Jean Bricmont, a physicist of Université Catholique de Louvain, seem to address in much more comprehensive and controversial ways many questions I have asked as a part of our conversation on this blog about role and need for intelligibility of modern science and its metaphysical foundations.
These are: “Quantum Sense and Nonsense”, 2017 (little math)
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319652702#aboutBook
And “Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics 2014 (more math)
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319258874
As I never recommend purchasing anything on this blog so it is placed as informational link although they offer this book for sale at Springer Verlag as well as many other places. But if you want to read those books anyway, do me a favor do not buy from Amazon.com thank you.
I do not intend here to question efficacy of the theory of Quanta but rather aim to question narratives disseminated widely in media, academia, and in many scientific circuits, supposedly explaining foundations of the Quantum theory as closely related to reality of universe. I will attempt to address some more controversial, often characterized as surreal, aspects of theory of QM in context of intelligibility debate continuing on this blog.
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In context of our intelligibility debate, It is only appropriate to address one of most unintelligible theory in history of modern science, theory of relativity (TR) which models and conclusions defy common human comprehension. Does relativity describe objective reality or it is just a mathematical construct conceived in our mind alone, forcing on us into conclusions conflicted with our built-in comfortable, innate understanding of concepts of time and space (see previous posts). The theory of relativity, developed with poor, deficient input from our sense perceptions, challenging us to confront new worldview with nothing absolute or reliable to hold on to. Instead we are forced into “subjective reality” dependent of individual observer.
METAPHYSICS OF REALITY 