I can't take sides in this "intelligent" conversation, but I am dumb enough to see the positive side of both sides and I have to disagree with each of you a little bit.
In an effort to solve this dilemna (?) here's my recommendation to Bomz - Find a copy of Dancing Wu Li Masters and read it thoroughly. It's the most simple explanation of Quantum Mechanics I've been able to find and once you get beyond the first 65 pages or so, you wo't be able to put it down. It's kid of like dropping an Alkaseltzer into your cranium.
You appear to me to be a lot more smart than myself, so I think you'll enjoy it and get a lot out of it. And maybe you'll even be able to carry on a discussion about that very subject with one of those smart guys in Berkeley. (or with some of the smarter guys here on this board).
And to DR. CHIMPS: I are dumb when it comes to discussions with QM 'Scientists' but last year we had a family get-together and one family member just so happened to be one of those UCB scientists who is involved with Quantum Mechanics and since I am an avid reader of DANCING WU LI MASTERS, I 'called him out' with the hope that he would explain some of the 'fallicies' I found in the book such as one's inability to see anything at all while traveling beside a beam of light at the same speed and in the same direction and the problems I had with Schroder's Cat (spelling??).
And actually.... my dumb questions turned out to be pretty damn smart as they opened up a couple of new 'thoughts' in his Quantum Mechanical mind regarding some QM research he was currently involved in.
SO after he answered each of my dumb questions (I had no idea what he was saying, but in an attempt to be polite, I simply kept on nodding my head) .... he thanked me and headed back to UCB with new thoughts in his head. (Thanks to me and my dumb questions.)
So I will admit that I am pretty darn dumb when it comes to discussing QM with qualified QM masters but I learned many years ago from a formally uneducated DI that, "There is no such thing as a dumb question, but when you ask one, you gotta pick up the dog-shit while I provide the answer!"
And that was always followed by, " .... you miserable piece of whale turd!" ("Whale-turds supposedly being the lowest things on planet-earth back then.)
So one of these UCB smart guys just might come across the comments Bomz has offered above and start "re-think'n". And that new think'n could lead to bigger thoughts which could eventually solve bigger problems.
Some Get Biggers say Bomz has only offered lemons .... while others think of the lemonade possibilities.
Smart guys such as these QM dudes only see the lemonade .... even if the lemons are stale and rotten.
I like to think that my discussion with that UCB QM expert will lead to the eventual discovery and introduction of QUANTUM-mechanical Computers to the masses.
I hope they give me credit, but I doubt it.
And I are too damn dumb to make an objection.
FOR BOMZ .... and I think that the Falcon may find if to be of interest. But it's best to get the book.
http://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/dancingmasters.pdf
