@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.

@lritter @TheBreadmonkey

I'm not a fan of the anthropic principle. Physicists' job is to figure out how things work, not come up with excuses for why things don't work the way they want.

(The anthropic principle is second cousin to the multiple worlds stupidity.)

Basically, the elders in the physics world have gotten too old to think straight (I'm 73, so I get to say this), and are desperate for a theory that isn't probabilistic and non-local.

Get over it and grow up: QM is simply correct.

@djl @TheBreadmonkey uhm. ok. sounds like you have some emotional baggage to work out :-)

i just meant to say that a non-probabilistic universe might make it impossible for intelligent life to form. or, if formed, it would quickly control the space and destroy it through runaway cascades.