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Comment QM is weird! (Score 1) 273

As a lay person with an engineering background, I find QM to be exceedingly weird. All our intuition stems from interaction with the classical (macroscopic) stuff around us. Trying to extend it to the quantum world is rather frustrating.

I recently took up an opportunity to attend a few lectures on introductory quantum mechanics, just to see if I can develop some intuitive understanding of quantum mechanics. My key takeaway (please correct me if I am wrong) was that in the quantum world, measuring a quantum state and interacting with a quantum state are the same thing and will almost always modify the state being measured.

There were a host of other concepts which were introduced but most of them appear to boil down to this essential difference.

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