In September 2019, the New York Times opinion piece, the physicist Sean Carroll wrote, "Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics. Worse, they don’t seem to want to understand it." (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/opinion/sunday/quantum-physics.html)
The reason for this refusal to understand quantum mechanics is that (as the following publications would show) official theoretical physics and cosmology from Newton to Einstein to the present; only promoted theology and find it necessary like Emmanuel Kant “to deny knowledge to make room for faith”.
The Limits of Mathematics/The Infinite: http://www.e-journal.org.uk/shape/papers/Special%2064.pdf
Momentum – the Archilles’ Heel of Causality-based Physics: The Root of Its Miseries - from the Quantum to the Cosmic : https://rajpub.com/index.php/jap/article/view/9682
What is Light, Really? A Quantum Dialectical View. Semantic scholar: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/What-is-Light%2C-Really-A-Quantum-Dialectical-View-Abdul/9652dee62901f5ab9289cb4498f10fd01869181b
New Physics II – Quantum-Dialectical Derivation of New Mass-Energy Relation Invalidates Einstein’s Famous Equation E = mc2 : https://rajpub.com/index.php/jap/article/view/9642
New Physics – The Negation of Einstein’s Theories of Relativity. JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN PHYSICS, 22, 54–61. https://doi.org/10.24297/jap.v22i.9594
“The Mystery of the Lorentz Transform: A Reconstruction and Its Implications for Einstein's Theories of Relativity and cosmology” : INSPIRE>HEP: https://inspirehep.net/literature/2158754
"Quō Vādis theoretical physics and cosmology? from Newton’s Metaphysics to Einstein’s Theology": https://www.mathematicsgroup.com/articles/AMP-6-181.php
KEPLER -NEWTON -LEIBNIZ -HEGEL Portentous and Conflicting Legacies in Theoretical Physics, Cosmology and in Ruling Ideas: https://www.rajpub.com/index.php/jap/article/view/9106
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Why do many physicists not want to understand quantum mechanics?
Because for almost a century the community has acted in a Kantian spirit: they bracket the question of ultimate reality in order to preserve confidence in the formalism itself.
- Pragmatic faith: The equations work flawlessly. Quantum theory is the most predictive framework in science, so many physicists treat this practical success as sufficient, without probing its meaning.
- Copenhagen legacy: Bohr and Heisenberg normalized the idea that one should “not ask what it means, just calculate.” This trained generations to avoid interpretation.
- Philosophical avoidance: Interpreting the theory forces one into ontology, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. Many physicists see this as outside their professional remit.
- Sociological inertia: Careers, funding, and reputation flow toward applying quantum mechanics, not questioning its foundations. Asking “what reality is” behind the math is often unrewarded.
In short, they do not seek what is real but what ensures careers, funding, and reputation.
Critical addition: In this context, researchers often lose the right direction and the right questions in their work, because they are guided primarily by economic incentives. Yet the truly fundamental questions are often more fruitful and ultimately more rewarding than those dictated by economic priorities.
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