A realist takes on quantum mechanics
I feel like when people say ‘realist’ in this context, they mean someone who believes that ordinary intuitions about the way the world works are how the world must work at all levels. And there is no reason to believe that our minds were evolved to understand reality at anything but the macro level.<p>I’ve long thought that the study of physics at the extremes is as much a study of the human mind and what we’re capable of comprehending as it is a probe of fundamental reality.  Which is to say that experiments are essentially a chain of processes by which we translate information from whatever we’re studying into a form capable of being understood by our mind — often translating it into something visual so our visual cortex can process it and store it.<p>But I wonder how much is out there that is simply impossible to transform in such a way.