There is a high concentration of introductory material on wave-particle duality

[cdux]

(A disclaimer: I'm not an expert, having genuine confusion)

There is a high concentration of introductory material on wave-particle duality that claims that the uncertainty principle manifests itself identically to the behavior of waves in the macro world.

This however appears to be in direct contrast with most physicists here and elsewhere that claim such correlations with the macro world are at best good [to mediocre] analogies, and at worst, fallacies that take away from proper understanding on quantum mechanics.

And I wonder (and question the forum), is the consensus that touching the macro world to explain those things dangerous and should be avoided, or is it safe to say "the uncertainty principle can be easily seen as an analogy on part of the behavior of common wave behavior in the macro world"?

I do get a sense that would be incorrect and I wonder if I should ignore those saying "forget the "spooky" nature of quantum mechanics, it's just waves". It seems like the cheap way out.

 

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There is a high concentration of introductory material on wave-particle duality...

Not in real textbooks, there isn't. You'll only find it in popularizations that try to make quantum mechanics understandable without going through the math. These are well-intentioned and much better than nothing but generally unsuccessful.

Much of the problem is that our classical intuition doesn't work with quantum mechanical effects. Only a very small fraction of the popuation has studied the math behind classical mechanics (Goldstein level, not Kleppner and Kolenkow) but it doesn't matter - just about everyone can form a good intuition for mechanical problems without consdering a single equation. But for QM there's no intuition about how things "ought to work" to fall back in, just the abstract math.

For example, consider the uncertainty principle. It comes from the mathematical properties of the eigenfunctions of non-commuting linear operators. That is not a satisfying explanation for an audience that hasn't had two or three years of college-level math.

 

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And I wonder (and question the forum), is the consensus that touching the macro world to explain those things dangerous and should be avoided

It's better than nothing. Everyone just has to remember that if they aren't getting the math they aren't getting the real thing.