Michele Hanson: Quantum physics and me

Quantum physics is a bit of a black hole to me. You jump in and where do you get? Nowhere. But I am not alone. Not even the quantum physicists seem to get anywhere particular. Apparently they can't see what the quanta (discrete unit quantities of energy) are doing, because as soon as you look at them they stop doing what they normally do, and if you look at them while they're doing it, you can't see what they are, so that seems like a bit of a non-starter to me. Schroëdinger was sorry he'd ever got involved with it in the first place. So how am I meant to understand quantum physics theories, if none of them are complete because the physicists haven't worked out what reality is, because they haven't worked out what the measuring device is, which measures the reality?I'm not sure that the physicists are choosing...

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