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These correlations strongly defy classical physics and undermine confidence in classical physics as being fundamental. As your senses suggest.

This is not an explanation but a description.

What you are asking shouldn't possibly exist in a classical-physics universe. But science hasn't settled on a particular interpretation because such a one doesn't currently exist. The quantum world is quite unlike the classical world. There is only fields. And the classical world appears from...

The wavefunction is real in a very specific way - we lack the appropriate organs to access it directly but it lives in a world of its own that we can access through mathematics. The higher-dimensional configuration space where wavefunctions live can be thought of as more fundamental than the...

Quantum physics raises measurement as central. And possibly fundamental. Not "matter"(whatever it is). Or energy. They come later.

Energy is not the ability to do work in quantum physics but the property to change how states change over time. Measurement gives energy to outcomes. Before measurement, a quantum system can exist in a superposition of energy states. The central issue is the quantum physics doesn't even talk...

I also have this uneasy feeling calling matter a form of energy or condensed energy. It is not terribly too far off though. Intuitively. If we were ever allowed to picture what is going on... Because if we were to skip this part, we'd have to stick to PeterDonis' method and just use the equations.

You were replying to this, which concerns interpretative issues of quantum physics:

Kind of. It is interpretation of physics.

Yes, I know this classical perspective. I think everyone agrees with it. If someone were to ask what is more fundamental, things would be less ideal as quantum physics doesn't list matter as one of its preconceived notions.

Electromagnetic radiation is energy. And is not a property of matter. Whatever matter is, calling energy a property of matter might be too narrow of an angle.

Before a measurement though, what is energy a property of?

From the point of view of quantum physics... Could physicists agree what matter is? We see it, we describe it yet it resists intuitive understanding. Is matter really just energy and measurement, decoherence, splitting, whatever process that brings out single outcomes aka "matter"?

If 'real' means to be perceived, then - No. The wavefunction is not real