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[QUOTE="Nugatory, post: 5508590, member: 382138"] That's because most of them will be garbage and the ones that aren't haven't been structured as a logical progression from the beginning. If you're not good at math but want to understand how QM works anyway, get hold of Giancarlo Ghirardi's book "Sneaking a look at god's cards". Try to forget everything you've heard about things going from waves to particles when they're observed. All of that stuff dates from long ago, before the modern understanding of quantum mechanics was hammered out in the decades after the first world war. That is most emphatically not correct - it is one of the most wrong misunderstandings suggested by these popular sources you've been studying. That's a better picture than the one that you've been getting, but without a clear understanding of what superposition is and what wave-particle duality is not it's still not going to get you anywhere. Start with that Ghirardi book. [Edit - just noticed that the autocorrect ate the "h" in "Ghirardi" - maybe fixed it this time] [/QUOTE]
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