archetypal fool

It absolutely could be that we lack this insight, and the entire reason for science is to gain it. As it stands, the double-slit experiment using single protons is one of the most important ones. You can repeat the experiment many times, and it will never be the same. Perhaps one day a new model will come around which sheds light on something new and startling which explains it perfectly, but until that day, QM is the only things which comes close to explaining this phenomenon, and so I'll believe it until it changes. I'm not a quantum physicist either, but the way I see it, it's been around for nearly a century and produces equations which are incredibly precise, and I haven't heard a single scientist butt heads with it. That's got to mean something .

And yes, GM is mostly mathematical, but the derived equations are more accurate than the alternative ones, so long as we're talking about subatomic scales. That's why physics is divided into Einsteinian physics (such as relativity) and QM, and they are incompatible, which implies there is a more fundamental physics which hasn't been discovered yet. In fact, the only model which united physics currently is string theory, and even that has many unsolvable problems.

When it comes down to it, quantum mechanics implied some very counterintuitive and hard to swallow things about our universe, but nothing else accounts for the properties like it does. To believe in quantum physics is a true paradigm shift.