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= Topic list =

Published.

* What is quantum mechanics?

* Why is quantum mechanics difficult to understand?

** Quantum world fundamentally different (intro).

*** Invisible

*** Different properties.

*** Ubiquity.

** Indirect information: observations.

*** Submicroscopic scale.

*** Macroscopic human senses.

*** Information through interaction.

** Interaction causes alteration.

*** Observations alter.

*** Environment alters (decoherence).

** Models predicting observations.

*** Analogies to directly observable systems.

*** Numerical observations require mathematical models.

** Limitations of non-mathematical descriptions.

*** Limitations of mathematical description.

**** Observers obey QM (Heisenberg cut)

**** Bad data to start (unmeasurable initial conditions)