I saw this quote in a physics book today and absolutely loved it. It just about sums up the attitude that I believe you 'absolutely must adopt', to cope with the oddities of Quantum mechanics:
'Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing'.
'The Strange World of Quantum Mechanics'. D. Styer
Some of the quantum realities are so far removed from common sense or the classical physics model; that to try and bolt them onto your existing notions of reality, will probably lead to confusion. It was even alleged, that difficulties in accepting the results of quantum mechanics, eventually led Einstein to quit the subject of Quantum mechanics, with him describing it as an 'incomplete' theory. It's that odd!
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