Do you understand that there is copious rigorous experimentation that supports the quantum theories? And that until there was an well-tested body of evidence showing that those theories explain and predict reproducible results of physical processes better than any other proposed theory, scientists were very skeptical of them?
No offense, but I’m not sure what your point is. Here’s my point, illustrated by a randomly Googled quote about electrons:
It used to be believed that electrons orbited protons like planets around a sun. This is not the case as we belive today. More recently evidence has been found that electrons travel in clouds around a hollow sphere with the proton at the core and can move to any place on the surface of that sphere. Also it appears that electrons can move to any point on the sphere whithout crossing the intervening space. This means that they can go anywhere on the sphere instantly no matter how far away.
Are you telling me that your conscious, rational, analytical mind, your left-brain, thinks it understands how an electron can not only move instantaneously, that is with no time taking place for the movement to occur, but can be in two places at once?
What IS an electron? Is it a particle, the "idea" of a particle, is it motion itself?
What IS matter, anyway?
My point is, there are some things you can only "understand" intuitively. Sometimes that really ticks off your left-brain.
That’s all.
There’s a BRILLIANT quote in Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything in which a major scientist says something to the effect that the problem is not that the theories explaining these things are weird, but that they’re not even weird enough, heh. I’ll look it up later if I have time. (I may not. Have time, that is.)
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