[humanbydefault]

In my mind [wich also means personally] I see the science we identified as quantum mechanics these days as the most complex representation of the universal interaction of two aspects of reality: Reductionism and Holism.
When we say: "We can't explain the quantum world using classical physics..." we are referring to a reality that belongs to a holistic set of events that deep in its nature responds directly to a yet deeper reductionistic process that at the same time is responsible for a holistic world of the "micro-things."
Take for example the movement of planets around a sun>>> If you consider the presence of individual planets in a non-connected way among them, you won't be able to find the true reason why they follow thier actual orbits as they do every single day without interrumption. It is a "bunch" of apparently disconected systems that when "attached to each other" [entangled?] BEHAVE in a way we [scientists, physicists and regular people] could consider... weird?
That's why we can't get it! There was an article in the front page of this forum that accounted for some behaviors of a group of pendulums connected together in a common rod. They seemed to acquire an unexplained symmetry that shouldn't be there assuming we see the process in a reductionistic fashion.
I don't see the problem with understanding why quantum mechanics is "so weird." What is weird is that in the year 2006 we still pretend to be able to explain things in a "clasical" way when we act as pure stubborn reductionistic beings and forget that the universe is in some way "interconnected" in all its parts and "pieces."

That's my opinion about the "contradictory confusion" observed in books and opinions every time we attempt to describe the roll of quantum mechanics in our lives...

HUMANBYDEFAULT