RationalWiki mocks quantum-mysticism using false attribution of characteristics.
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So they resort to forced similes and grossly misleading metaphors (quantum tunneling means you can walk through walls—somehow it never works when I try it).
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My comment: I've never seen where quantum tunnelling leas to walking through walls.
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Non-physicists who are intrigued by words like “uncertainty” and “indeterminacy,but are too lazy to do the serious work it takes to understand them.
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my comment: Lazy eh? As if uncertainty means something that needs to be studied. Uncertainty pretty clearly means uncertain.
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xBuzzwords like "energy field", "probability wave", or "wave-particle duality" are used to magically turn thoughts into something tangible
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My comment: Quantum woo involves "fields" but not neccessarily energy fields but rather information fields as in L-fields and T-fields as seen in Russel's "Design for Destiny".
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