Crisis: Chemistry is Not Applied Quantum Mechanics!

The crisis of modern physics as fundamental physics as Standard Quantum Mechanics StdQM is a reaction to the following realisation questioned by nobody:

• Chemistry is Not Applied Quantum Mechanics. 

This statement describes StdQM as a failed project of atom physics, because chemistry is the science of molecules and molecules are atoms connected by chemical bonding and so is part of atom physics. 

If StdQM does not include chemical bonding of atoms, then something most essential is missing as a theory of atom physics. 

This is described by chatGPT as follows:

• Across textbooks, axiomatizations, and foundational writings, quantum mechanics is consistently formulated as a framework for predicting the statistical outcomes of prepared measurements,
• while explicitly abstaining from any description of the physical processes or structures producing those outcomes. 
• If quantum mechanics is a theory of experimental prediction rather than physical mechanism, then it cannot serve as a foundational physical theory of molecules, but only as a constraint on admissible empirical outcomes in chemical modeling.

We understand that the stated scope of StdQM to predict statistical outcomes of certain prepared experiments, means a retreat from fundamental principles of science concerned with the real world. This can only be described as a monumental failure now manifested as a crisis. 

RealQM is an alternative to StdQM which may serve as a foundational theory of molecules.