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And people who like uncertainty try to use QM to explain all sorts of magic.
I do not understand QM, and reading this makes me want to go study physics, not just a passing want but a notion to spend years building electrical test setups for physics professors in exchange for knowledge. I reject the religious aversion to uncertainty and the new age desire for The Secret. It want to know what we can really find out about the nature of matter empirically, not just models and rules of thumb.
I also like the point about the electron cloud chamber.
Many of the christians loved QM because free will existed in the uncertainty principle.
I personally believe that it is very important for both physics and epistemology that the Copenhagen interpretation of QM be shown to be wrong.
It's interesting to me to watch the interaction between the theological and the purely scientific