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Originally Posted by HarryT
Perhaps even "understanding what a wave function really is"? At a level "beyond" simply a mathematical construct? I'm not sure that I do, but equally, I'm not sure that it's necessary to do so.
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Exactly - the key thing is that the models work. The fact that it's difficult or impossible to grasp it intuitively (non-mathematically) in a way that makes sense according to our every-day feel for how things work shouldn't be held against it. As Einstein said: "The more success the quantum theory has the sillier it looks."
QM has had
so much success that it's completely irrelevant how silly it looks!
/JB