#also ime actual physicists almost never say “quantum physics.” it's almost always “quantum mechanics”

[blondiest]

midday thought apropos nothing. if i could get everyone to understand one thing and one thing only about physics it would perhaps be this:

there is no widely agreed-upon interpretation of quantum mechanics.

there are many different ways that physicists interpret the wave function / uncertainty / probability thing and new interpretations pop up all the time. the copenhagen interpretation or some variation thereof is what gets taught the most in classes, but there is absolutely no consensus even on many of the fundamental questions that are naturally raised by the well-established & well proven mathematical theory that is quantum mechanics.