[jacknews]

OK I'll risk it by saying things I think I know about quantum mechanics that have proved useful in dispelling/illuminating/clarifying popular accounts, that lots of people probably don't get.

Bear in mind that someone quite famous and rather clever once said "if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics", and I think he surely wasn't joking!

- There's no such thing as an independent 'observation'. To observe quantum particles you must interact with them. 'You' might be just a particle.

- All the things you've interacted with look different to the things you haven't.

- Noone really understands quantum mechanics

[JohnDeHope]

"There's no such thing as an independent 'observation'." It's not as if you can see macro objects without bouncing photons off them, either. Does this point have to do with QM specifically? At large enough scales the amount of interaction needed to observe something is incidental to the thing itself. At small enough QM scales the interaction needed for observation is non-trivial. But is this a difference of kind, or just a difference of quantity?

[dave333]

It's because QM math is WRONG :-) See brilliantlightpower.com