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Quantum mechanics is stranger than relativity. The strangeness comes again from the incompatibility of ordinary language with the actual facts. But nobody has clearly identified the traps in ordinary language that make it so difficult to talk correctly about quantum phenomena, and nobody has come even close to finding a way to use ordinary language that eliminates the perplexities. As with relativity, physicists have discovered a mathematical formalism that gets it right, leading to a state of nonverbal comprehension. Nobody has figured out how do better than that, which makes trying to write about quantum mechanics without the mathematical formalism an exquisite challenge.
