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Nearly 70 years after America made einsteinium in its first full-scale thermo-nuke experiment, mystery element yields secrets of its chemistry

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Re: Open YouTube

Surely you must be joking Mr Feyman.

QM works the way solving an equation works. You fill in the values you know, until you can solve for the remaining unknowns.

Now describe that as if the equation was the underlying system: "measuring properties, sets the properties and narrows the possible values for the the remaining unknowns, before you measure them they've unknown in many possible states not in a single known state".

Since the equation models matter at the subatomic level correctly, so that must be correct via mathematical and statistical proofs against observation. The equation MUST BE the model.

Except it doesn't work. You keep finding repeating patterns which you label with various terms, "quantum teleportation", "entanglement", etc. that don't fit the model and hypothesizing magical solutions where the properties are being transferred from one particle to other, or one photon to another.

So its not a description of the underlying mechanism, its an approximation model that approximately works most of the time except when it doesn't.

QM in a nutshell.

A fitted mathematical model to an unknown system, described as if the mathematical model *was* the system.

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