Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to it, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone - both to the novice and to the experienced physicist. Even the experts do not understand it the way they would like to, and it is perfectly reasonable that they should not, because all of direct, human experience applies to large objects. [...] We cannot make the mystery go away by "explaining" how it works. We will just _tell_ you how it works. In telling you how it works we will have told you about the basic peculiarities of all quantum mechanics.
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