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Is quantum mechanics for real

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13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

Your question is on the order of asking, "Does the Earth go around the Sun?"

Every experiment done over the last eighty years or so has confirmed the accuracy of quantum mechanics -- in one case, the agreement between theory and experiment was within ten parts per BILLION.

I'm fully aware that QM doesn't agree with what we "know" about our world. Neils Bohr, one of the founders of QM, has been quoted as saying, "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it." Nevertheless, QM is as true as a helio-centric solar system.

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