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All popular articles about quantum physics are in a way bullshit, false and misrepresentation.

Because the only way to accurately talk about quantum physics is to show the math and only talk about that. The famous "shut up and calculate".

You can't have it both ways, you either accept gross misrepresentations in the popular science press, or you just don't have popular science press.

[Xcelerate]

Yeah, this is how I feel when I read the actual research papers behind these sensational articles.

“Quantum teleportation achieved!”

Hmm, looks like a unitary operator was applied to a tensor product state.

“Virtual particles pop in and out of existence!”

Hmm, looks like a mathematical technique to perturbatively approximate a very large unitary operator.

“Time crystals!!!”

Cool, the unitary operator has some symmetries.

“The cat is dead and alive!”

So the state the unitary operator acts upon can be represented as a mathematically convenient linear combination of two other states. Great?