Things rarely mentioned in Quantum Mechanics

During my Quantum journey of discovery it was normal for those around me to not get the significance of what I was understanding. Instead of listening there was a preference to those looking in to make some conclusion on how they were more socially acceptable according to fashion. I am trying not to judge but unpack the run of interaction which was unremarkable at the time, but ultimately left me with some feature, some behaviour that was distinctly unworldly. These phenomena would be a transmission window in a gas or a sudden reduction in the amount of effort to cool things down as you passed certain temperature. Gradually a feeling developed around what these things, atoms and molecules ... all the way up to us ... further to stars, galaxies and the universe and the Universe.

So, when you get to know a mathematical function like y = 3x + 4 and others like quadratics, cubics, sines, arctan, log and so forth it is a real delight to find that little things are little functions. The functions are solutions to things vanishing at the edge of the universe, and being not too small and not too large so there is just enough of the stuff there. So where people in general see a speck there is a function. Its not hard to imagine but as you gain experience you can see what imagine work with what you experience. From this flows gentle understanding. It doesn't mix with particle dogma, that if you pick a tread of the thinking behind departs from a chain of understanding and moves into thinking that is charged with social values to link ideas. Ultimately people who have busy schedules to fill, give a small slice of time as there is so much for really important people to be doing, scan the shut down premixed thinking and say "I know really educated people, and they know others and they make up an exclusive group you are not a member off, so therefore that phenomena they are not worried about but you appear to be enjoying is really confirmation of my membership of the knowledge club and you not."

Well, let that thought bubble pass, and lets look at how we gently pull apart the wave equation and how gas stops rotating at cold temperatures and how computers work.

I am not the Shakespeare of Quantum Mechanics but I think we need one.

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