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= Topic list =
* What is quantum mechanics?
** A curiously exotic set of phenomena.
** theoretical model of very very tiny things.
**Major part of how the universe works.
** strangely: all of the above.
* Why is quantum mechanics difficult to understand?
** Quantum world fundamentally different (intro).
*** Invisible, Heavily mathematical, Ubiquity, Different properties.
▲** Indirect information: observations.
*** Submicroscopic scale.
*** Macroscopic human senses.
*** Information through interaction.
*** Interaction causes alteration
**** Observations alter state.
**** Environment alters (decoherence).
** Indirect information leads to models leads to math.
▲** Models predicting observations.
*** Models predicting observations.
*** Analogies to directly observable systems.▼
*** Numerical observations require mathematical models.
** Limitations of non-mathematical descriptions.
*** Models difficult to explain without math background.
*** Limitations of mathematical description.▼
**** Observers obey QM (Heisenberg cut)▼
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