Op Ed piece on Decline of QM

[PB666]

The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics

Basically goes through (superficially) the problems with QM and its long and conflicted history.

Basically atomic theory and QM are absolutely parsimonious.

Wave particle duality has smallish problems.

Uncertainty principle and reasoning why deterministic physics has a probabilistic outcome is unresolved.

I see the logic here can be simplified. Quantum entanglement cannot result in instantaneous communication (although recent experiments are sure suggest that something that looks identical as such) because this would be sending signals backwards in time, violating relativity, and yet we have no reason to understand why time flows, the flow of time is something that resolves as space and time, a process we do not understand, coevolves from quantum space-time an essence we have yet to observe. The basic reason we say time cannot flow backwards is because its never been observed and consistencies on the macro scale with relativity, but relativity does not hold up on the quantum scale. IOW there are several aspects of QM that appear to be such but when we try to convert to classical physics they appear to be something ever so slightly different and we don't know why.

[Jonfliesgoats]

QM also gets used by con artists.  They typically wrap some snippet of QM into some snippet of religion to extract money, time or services from people.  You can usually find these guys hanging around about three blocks from any major campus.  The fact that QM seems so strange to the lay person (I am not a physicist and definitely a lay person) gives these folks tools and room to maneuver.