The defensive view that the micro-world is too different to understand using regular thinking (and only a mathematical approach is possible) is rejected totally. The present critique rejects this human-centered view of reality by assuming material reality has existed long before (and will persist long after) human beings (“Realism”). Quantum mechanics (QM) was developed over the first quarter of the 20th century, when scientists were enthralled by a new philosophy known as Positivism, whose foundations were based on the assumption that material objects exist only when measured by humans – this central assumption conflates epistemology (knowledge) with ontology (existence). This critique is based on the oldest approach to thinking about nature for over 2500 years, known as Natural Philosophy. A critique is offered of the commonly accepted ‘Copenhagen Interpretation’ of a theory that is only a mathematical approach to the level of reality characterized by atoms and electrons. This paper re-opens the debate on the failure of quantum mechanics to provide an understandable view of micro-reality.
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