/lit/ - Literature

>>18145470
It's true though.
Growing up, I always thought Quantum Mechanics was bullshit, for instance. I thought it was just scientists with too much time on their hands, just coming up with random shit, because pop-sci presented it like that. The way they talk about parallel universes and probabilistic events made it seem a rabbit could just pop into existence or turn into a hippo or shit. I actually decided to follow a career in physics to understand what this was really about.
The first time we did those seminal experiments in basic quantum mechanics (the double slit experiments, measuring quantization of energy levels, Compton scattering, Franck-Hertz, Stefan Boltzmann, etc etc, I had a feeling I wish most people here could have. I desperately felt quantum mechanics could NOT be true, because it wasn't intuitive. Even when learning the theory behind it, it seemed impossible and bizarre. I was desperate for Einstein and the hidden variables to be right, but what I wanted was irrelevant when they showed me the measurements and how to make them. I made them myself, and saw I had to give up my childish idea of what is intuitive or "a-priori" or not. Being forced to give up your intuition in favor of a measurement that proves you wrong is why science is beautiful, and is something that most people here will willingly always avoid.