Why Is Quantum Mechanics Made So Crazy, Strange and Weird?

All leading physicists tell us that quantum mechanics as the physics of the microscopic world of atom physics, is crazy, strange and weird:

• Quantum mechanics is weird. I don't understand it. Just live with it. You don't have to understand the nature of things in order to build cool devices. (Seth Lloyd)
• I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics. (Richard Feynman)
• We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. (Niels Bohr)
• Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. (Werner Heisenberg)
• ....

Ok, so quantum mechanics is weird, but does it say that also Nature as what exists, is weird? Quantum mechanics is theory about the microscopic world constructed by physicists and if it is weird, it is because it is so constructed. 

On the other hand Nature as what exists cannot be weird, because things that are weird cannot exist over time. Anything weird will quickly collapse. Now the microscopic world of protons and electrons serves as the foundation of Nature and it is inconceivable that the very foundation what exists is weird. It is possible that there are macroscopic phenomena which can be described as weird as an Earth quake or car crash, but they are short-lived. It seems protons do not ever decay and so are remarkably long-lived and so cannot be truly weird. 

Ok, so real atom physics as the foundation of Nature cannot be truly weird. Only a theory about atom physics can be weird, and this undoubtedly the case with quantum mechanics constructed by physicists. 

How can that be? How come that the theory of quantum mechanics is weird, while the atom physics it is supposed to describe cannot be weird? 

We are led to the troubling question: Has quantum mechanics deliberately been constructed by physicists so as to be so weird that it cannot be understood?  

This connects to Newton's admittance that his Principia Mathematica was written to be almost impossible to read (using geometry instead Leibniz Calculus), in order to make criticism from "little smatterers" impossible. Is this the attitude of also modern physicists? 

In any case, if you follow the broad road of weird physics, there is no limit to what weirdness you are allowed to invent, and this now showing up as the crisis of modern physics, witnessed by so many.  

As an antidote to weirdness please take a look at Real Quantum Mechanics and play with its models in Leibniz World of Mathematics Model Workshop 22 Atom Physics. It is very illuminating, in particular to all "little smatterers" like you and me by challenging the ruling dogma of quantum mechanics. Give it a try!

To say that quantum mechanics is weird is a to give up rationality and resort to mysticism. The sad consequence is the present deep crisis in the affairs of the world, caused by irrational thinking of leading human minds, ultimately rooted in weird physics.  If the foundation is weird, everything built thereon is weird.  

PS Of course media is flooded by articles selling the idea that quantum mechanics is weird as a preparation to massive public spending on quantum computing. The more weird theory the more likely it will work in practice.