Quantum Mechanics Still a Complete Mystery 1

Lee Smolins new book Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution (lecture here) repeats yet another time what every physicist already knows:

• I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. (R. Feynman)
• Quantum mechanics is magic. (Daniel Greenberger) 
• Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. (Niels Bohr) 
• Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. (Niels Bohr) 
• If you are not completely confused by quantum mechanics, you do not understand it. (John Wheeler)
• If [quantum theory] is correct, it signifies the end of physics as a science. (Albert Einstein) 
• I do not like [quantum mechanics], and I am sorry I ever had anything to do with it. (Erwin Schrödinger) 
• Quantum mechanics makes absolutely no sense. (Roger Penrose)

To come to grips with this monumental mess Lee Smolin takes on the role of bringing physics back  to realism and rationality:

• So I have no better answer than to face the blank notebook. 
• Start by writing down what you are confident we know for sure. 
• Ask yourself which of the fundamental principles of the present canon must survive the coming revolution. 
• That’s the first page. Then turn again to a blank page and start thinking.
• It is not just that to try to invent a whole new physics is risky for my career and damaging to my emotional stability. 
• I don’t even know how to begin.

This is not a promising start and the book offers little hope for progress. So there we are today 100 years after the birth of modern physics in the form of quantum mechanics (and relativity theory) which nobody can understand. No wonder that modern physics is in a deep crisis.

My input to a rational realistic quantum mechanics is Real Quantum Mechanics. Take a look and see if it opens a door...

Recall that the whole mystery of quantum mechanics arises from the standard text book formal generalisation of Schrödinger's equation for Hydrogen to atoms with N > 1 electrons resulting in a linear equation in 3N space dimensions, which has no interpretation as a model of any reality only as a form of  statistics in the mind of an observer.  Real Quantum Mechanics explores a different generalisation into a system of non-linear equations in 3 space dimensions which describes a possible reality.