Understanding Quantum Mechanics

          Fair warning: Those that have never solved a SuDoKu Puzzle will not relate to this article and find it very tedious. Mosking

          I started constructing this html document on 14 March and have uploaded it to my site tonight 28 March. Two weeks of my isolation, not bad. This is how I spend my leisure time on the good days.

          Understanding Quantum Mechanics is a zeroth order oxymoron. [0th order : something so fundamentally obvious even the Universe yawns and says well duh! Also, something so obvious even the most pedantic philosopher refuses to articulate it as a fundamental proposition.]

          Never the less, I am a part of a small group that has embarked upon the next phase of Elementary Particle Physics. The objective is to work out a route for us (pathetic humans that we are) to take Quantum Mechanics Seriously. As CalTech's Sean Carroll points out: Various administrators, and institutional colleagues look askance at those so foolish as to scrutinize such esoterica, and this does not bode well for Tenure or Rank deficient members of the institution.

          The challenge (for this body of work) is to facilitate the journey from a childish (concrete operational) Weltanschauung with respect to QM to a mature (formal operational) Weltanschauung with respect to QM. This is not a task that can be accomplished using Sound Bites and sticky tape. I think I have found a route that might profit others interested in approaching this particularly onerous abyss. I am constructing the material to support a multisession course for our local Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) group.

          If you are interested in this project I am at (www.RipPhysics.com). Follow the links through the directory /OLLI/ then, the nested /MultiSessionClasses/ directory, to then open the /QuantumMechanics/ directory. The skeleton of the course resides in the displayed html document. The recently uploaded html document resides within the hidden directory/SuDoKu/

          if the above is too exhausting just use this imbedded link. And let me know what you think.

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This perception is so entrenched that far too many of us really think, "What you see is what you get."
While this is good enough for everyday activities,
including flying to the Moon,
it is profoundly inadequate for really comprehending Reality.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NbQkyvbw18]

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@CB

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