the future and our observations confirm that idea there was a program the other day here about paul dirac asking why this great british scientists will build a new new people said it's because quantum mechanics is so difficult to explain his relativity which is pretty difficult. i don't have the heart of the occult i mean you're known for being able to communicate these complicated idea you know direct was a man who was very short on words and i think that's part of why he wasn't as well known but yes quantum mechanics is stranger than any theory that came before because it is so counter to our experience we look out at the world and it seems to have a single definite disposition you are sitting right there that seems to be the reality that i am experiencing but according to quantum mechanics when i look away the reality actually devolves into a probabilistic haze of many possibilities and only when i look back and measure the world does it snap to attention have the definite disposition that we're all familiar with that is a radically strange description of how the world actually is our