“Quantum mechanics is a different kind of a theory to represent the world. . . . Nature knows the quantum mechanics, and the classical mechanics is only an approximation; so there is no mystery in the fact that in classical mechanics there is some shadow of quantum mechanical laws—which are truly the ones underneath. To reconstruct the original object from the shadow is not possible in any direct way, but the shadow does help you to remember what the object looks like. . . . We must always go back to the real world and discover the correct quantum mechanical equations. When they come out looking like something in classical physics, we are in luck.” – Richard P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. III
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