QM is utter nonsense. It is an afront to all logic and rationality in science.
The problem actually goes all the way back to the likes of Kepler, Galileo, et. al., and eventually Newton. Once Newton laid down his mathematical “law” of gravitation, physics never recovered, and has since descended into a rabbit hole of irrationality that would give any organized religion a run for their money. Physicists have been using an incorrect formulation of the scientific method for hundreds of years now. Rationality has been sacrificed at the altar of quantitative prediciton.
Physics is actually a priori and deductive. The building block of any theory of physics is 3D form, ie, shape. Any hypothesis or theory can be formulated by laying out the shape of the objects, their relationship to one another, the definitions, and the rules of behavior. Explanations can then be logically deduced. It is much, much simpler than what the mathematicians would want you to believe, as they would reject this formulation as childish and pedantic. Unfortunately for them they implicitly make use of this method since every single variable in every single one of their equations ultimately reduces to a relationship between objects, they have just completely ignored logical consistency.
The basic idea is that as long as the equations get the numbers right, who cares if the physical interpretations are completely irrational. QM can predict quantities very accurately, and I have no problem with that. What I have a major problem with is the claim that they have “proved” certain physical interpretations, or that there is a single explanation anywhere in QM, or physics as a whole.
QM has its roots in Young’s slit experiment. At the time, physicists thought that there was no rational way to explain the experiment, so the only option was to abandon what reason was left in classical mechanics. Feynmann’s interpretation says that the particle in the experiment travels every possible path in the universe simultaneously, and interferes with itself! Basically, anything goes in QM.
The problem is that physicists have ever really only considered two structures, the wave and the particle. Neither of these can be successful in explaining our most basic observations, although they are very convenient for the mathematical physicists who want to do everything with equations. Interestingly enough, there IS a rational explanation for not only Young’s experiment, but also many other basic things like gravity and magnetism. The physicists never considered the idea of ropes!
I don’t endorse thread theory quite yet, but I think that it is A) the only rational theory of physics I’ve ever come across, and B) has an explanatory power which is far, far superior to any of the other “theories.” It is based on what is called the rope hypothesis, which I pretty much accept at this point. It proposes that every atom in the universe is connected to every other atom in the universe via double intertwined electromagnetic ropes. Basically, just imagine two threads wrapped around one another, like a DNA helix without the rungs. All of a sudden so many of the mysteries which couldn’t be explained before with waves or particles make a lot more sense. For instance, just think about how EM propogation is visualized as alternating and perpendicular E and M fields, the rope is the rational physical interpretation for that! Light is just torsion along the rope, and this explains why QM theorists hold that light seems to depart and arrive as a particle, but travel as a wave. It explains why light is so fast, why it travels along a straight path, and why its velocity is constant regardless of the velocity of the body which is emitting it (no need to invoke special relativistic nonsense or bizzare QM interpretations).
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