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[QUOTE="ohwilleke, post: 6800356, member: 19562"] Not really a fair criticism. The fact that a theory is comprehensive and accurate description of Nature doesn't preclude it from being weird. "Weird" is a word generally used in reference to "common sense" and a typical person's intuition about how the world works. Weird is a close synonym of "counterintuitive." Every shred of physical intuition gained from daily life, some of it hard wired into our brains, is based on a classical worldview that works for Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell's equations, but fails miserably in the domain of quantum theory in half a dozen or so distinct respects. Yet many people aren't even seriously exposed to quantum theory for the first time until they are college students with STEM majors (assuming that they ever go to college and that they ever major in STEM). Calling quantum theory "unnatural" would indeed have been inappropriate, but "weird" is right on target. [/QUOTE]
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