@TheBreadmonkey

In Feinman's 1966 intro to QM he says.

"Quantum objects are not particles and are not waves. They are not clouds. They are unlike anything you've ever known."

I like that. A quantum object is simply something that plays by it's own rules, and those rules are nothing like anything anyone has ever seen.

And it's wonderful that QM is probabilistic at the most basic level. This means that physicists' dream of being in complete control of the universe is completely impossible.

@djl @TheBreadmonkey

It seems possible that there is no hard limit to scientific knowledge, but rather that each further object of investigation becomes increasingly improbable and impossible. So it is possible that we ourselves set a limit because it makes no sense to go any further.

@stekopf @djl @TheBreadmonkey

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”

Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the End of the Universe.