We've learned a lot about superposition since Schrödinger first mocked it with his cat analogy, and we've learned a lot about entanglement since Einstein mocked it as being "spooky action at a distance."
Like anything in science, there's always more work to be done, more that we could understand, but we've learned an awful lot over the history of quantum mechanics.
Not all that we've learned is consistent with intuition trained on the classical physics that describes objects that aren't too big or too small, aren't too hot or too cold, and don't move all that fast. That doesn't make it wrong, weird, or even hard to understand.
It means that you can use skills like math and programming to make sense of the world in a really neat way, that you can use what you know to develop a new intuition that isn't limited just to your own immediate experiences.
That, to me, is really bloody cool. The story of quantum mechanics isn't that the world is weird, but that we use math and computing to make the world make sense. 💕
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