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Quantum Mechanics

Especially, the double slit experiment.

Why is it so hard for people to understand, what is really going on? It is fucking plain ass obvious and I don't get all the hype that you, retards, are giving it. So let me explain in plain English (more or less).

Before the act of measurement (understood as any physical both-way interaction of the particle with its surroundings) the particle is in superposition. Or at least that's what the math is saying. It means that some of the properties are equally probable at any given time, or we say - so you, dumb ass incels, could understand - that the cat is at the same time dead and alive. The particle behaves as a wave and so are it's properties. They are "smeared", undefined. Got it? Good.

Now, the measurement. What it means to measure something? It means to use some physical property that interacts with some property of the measured object, to get some information about the said object as a whole, or the measured property or any other characteristic of the object related with the measured property. It means to define something.

Now you have the double slit experiment (dse). You shot some gay ass photon one by one and you observe a diffraction pattern. And it make sense. You do not measure anything. You are not interacting with the particle. The particle is in an undefined/ wave-like form while going through the slits. The slits (this is important) DO NOT MEASURE, do not interact any characteristic of the photon. And yes, the act measurement doesn't need a conscious observer. This is some metaphysical bs. Put in simple words: the slits do not give a fuck about the photon. The slits/photon system does not "exchange" interaction. The slit acts as an "observer".

Fucking its shit. Fuck quantum shit and its counterintuitive as FUCK. Fuck THIS SHIT. You quantum fuckers are in a fucking math fantasy wel guess what bitches 2+2=4 im a fuckin quamtum physicist now. Suck it

Subatomic particles are computational values.

Hi I'm someone aspiring to accomplish things, one of them is to become as proficient as possible in physics, maybe particle physics but intellectually I have a lot of ground to cover as I am 20 attending community college and struggling with basic trigonometry. What chance of any do I stand at approaching an understanding of quantum physics and what alternatives should I consider in the realm of physics? Be honest.

What's the best book for self-study to learn about Quantum Mechanics?

I don't necessarily want to be an expert, nor do I want to spend a lot of time doing exercises/calculations, I just want a moderate understanding of QM.

I know linear algebra, complex analysis, and classical mechanics so a book which assumes familiarity with those subjects would be best.