Don’t let the title of this post fool you; I’m actually only going to say a really short thing. Given my previous post, which deals with Einstein’s Relativity, I thought it would be interesting to pass on something I once read, I believe in one of Brain Green’s books (i.e. The Fabric of the Cosmos or The Elegant Universe). However, it might have also been in Genius by James Gleick. Don’t quote me on it, but it went like this:

Relativity is counter-intuitive and doesn’t make sense at first. But it obeys the rules and once you figure them out, you can train yourself to make sense of it. Quantum Mechanics, on the other hand, is not only counter-intuitive, but you can’t train yourself to make sense of it either.

And of course I could throw in the comment usually attribuited to Niels Bohr: “If you think you’ve understood Quantum Mechanics, you haven’t understood it.” (Of course I’ve heard variations on this quote too; but this is my favorite version of it.)