@TheBreadmonkey what's actually non-intuitive about quantum mechanics? I suggest that whatever problems with "intuition" are getting in the way, are synthetic ones: people who are brought up with one set of arbitrary expectations about the physical world (i.e. that everything is, or ought to be, down to the deterministic behavior of discrete particles) are suddenly taught something else, and this produces the "non-intuitive" difficulties.

It's not that much different from chemistry is reckoned as confusing—because people are taught an arbitrarily simplified formalism at the start, and LATER get taught "oh actually things are more complicated than that". I think it amounts to deliberate obfuscation. The educational systems of "the West" are practically intended to confuse most people, in order to weed a select few geniuses—geniuses who are perceived to be geniuses along certain social and racial lines, mind you.

@mxchara Things like the bullshit we were taught in school: ”electrons circle like planets around the nucleus”, and then ”electrons jump to a higher shell when radiation hits them, you know those shells that you were taught in chemistry”, leading my 14 year old brain to think ”What? That doesn’t make any sense at all”.

I finally understood in my 30’s when I took a proper university physics course, that included quantum mechanics. The mystery of the 1.8V red LED:s also ceased to be a mystery.