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Originally Posted by Voice QM is a model. What exists of the model is well understood. What it is modeling is not. As for electricity, I'll stand by my statement that it is not well understood. Models of it achieve various goals, but the underlying 'why does it work this way' is unclear. And it must be, because QM is incomplete. |
Classical mechanics is well understood too. It too is incomplete, not being complete does not mean it is not well understood. It is true for a certain range of measurements.
As to why, not being able to answer why does not mean a model is incomplete. A-priory, why might well be an question that is still to be asked for a complete theory. (but one will never be able to prove that a theory exactly mirrors reality.)
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Originally Posted by Voice Yet as I said, it is important to then see if the intuitive leap brought you somewhere useful. I'm not suggesting that one rely on intuition and abandon reason. Nor is the intuition 'needed'. It is merely convenient. It speeds things up. |
I still do not have read moonshine better then so far, but i do not think all the intuitive leaps have been backed up by evidence/logic yet. I am sure there are conspiracies going on, but that does not mean we can hope to uncover them with what we know.
I do not know what exactly you think when talking about a leap of intuition. Sounds like thinking up hypothetical situations, assuming for sake of argument, etc. Not something that society is completely unaware of.