Abstract
Recent developments in elementary quantum mechanics have seen a number of extraordinary claims regarding quantum behaviour, and even questioning internal consistency of the theory. These are, we argue, different disguises of what Feynman described as quantum theory's “only mystery”.
Highlights
Real mystics don’t hide mysteries, they reveal them
I will take just this one experiment, which has been designed to contain all of the mysteries of quantum mechanics . . . . Any other situation in quantum mechanics, it turns out, can always be explained by saying “You remember the case of the experiment with the two holes?”
The list includes, to name a few, particles being in several places at the same time [2], electrons “disembodied of their charge” [3], quantum “Cheshire (a)E-mail: dgsokol15@gmail.com cats” [4], photons with “discontinuous trajectories” [5], observer-dependent facts [6,7], doubts about the internal consistency of elementary quantum theory [8] and the conflict of “faster-than-light tunnelling” with special relativity [9]
Summary
Real mystics don’t hide mysteries, they reveal them. They set a thing in broad daylight, and when you’ve seen it it’s still a mystery. A mere act of perception on the part of an Observer adds nothing to quantum analysis, but a new record produced as a result (recall Feynman’s photon destroying the double slit interference), needs to be taken into account.
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