The confusions of quantum physics (QP) could owe something to a type of wordplay rather than cold, hard fact. There is a mixture of certainty and precision versus the detection of waves that are fairly vague.
However, as theoretical physicist Matthew Francis says, the sea has waves that also contain particles (H2O). The fact per se that things can both be particle and wave is not that unusual.
The whole of Greek tragedy concerns the conflict between the individual and the public society. It was the reason Socrates perished.
How can an individual NOT also be part of society and hence not act entirely individually?
The mystery of QP is due to the precise measurement which, as previously noted, is the creation of a geometric universe (such as the LHC torus).
The fact is that the real.universe isn't geometrical nor is it composed of light (diffraction). It's s physical substance.
The LHC is really a proton-buster that produces waves (diffraction) for the detector to detect. It's the destruction of physical reality that enables this detection.
This us why it resembles a simulation or electronic reality. The 'type' of ego that is convinced is the acolyte. The Greek maxim was "nothing to excess", and the LHC shatters that by relating everything to light (Relativity). A lot of it is pure hype (I like Grant Morrison the fantasist but he sure is a sucker for the claims of Big Science).
Light is ultra-precise, geometrical and convincing, but it's not reality. Reality is physical substance such as the arch of a throat. The product of balance and proportion in time.
All those are outwith the LHC which is outwith physical reality. Therefore it is also.outwith the psyche, since the psyche is associated to physical substance and ability to express, to act.
The way to get a complex modeen world into some sort of order is I terms of physical and psychic strength. In actual fact, Lee Perry's dub (P173) does this by collating seemingly bizarre info. "Blackboard Jungle" (Dubblestandart) has the line, "respect my piss", which is just a way of signifying the strength of dirt and giving it some psychic value in life (see also Fulling).
It's not so much that QP is bizarre as that life lived physically and truly has bizarre elements that are also strong.
Going back to R Crumb's interview (prev), he asks Reilly at one point why a young woman should like his" sexist, racist" material. She says it's he honesty, the exoressiof his psyche as well as the sense of giving it to "the man", the establishment.
He agrees and says he had anger towards women. The French take a similar line that the idea that sexual relations are dominant or subordinate is vastly too simplistic. Crumb was subordinate but then, through skill and craft, became dominant.
Again, the relation between the individual and society is there. Which is real? It's not a QP question; it's a question of physical substance and psyche.
Crumb also likes rough lines and cobblestones (living in a southern French village). A physical creation of artisans. One would find this old, haphazard order in places like Addis Ababa (prev) that are spiritual centres.
QP is a spiritual vacuum; a hoover of Big Science.
Going back to Minnelli's role in The Sterile Cuckoo,l (P172), her boyish beauty creates a frisson which works against the social milieu of the day (1969). She seems to think of her compatriots as socialised weirdos, and her girlfriend as a "creepy virgin".
Her character us fairly obnoxious, and that makes for an interesting film. Are we now in modernity acting as 'socialised weirdos'? Is there a malaise that doesn't recognize individual strength of psyche?
Minnelli famously thinks of herself as 'the best' and, while that may not be humble, it's also very classic. The Greeks thought if themselves s the best, and the Romans still aspired to their height.
That's psyche that emanates from the crudities and strength of physical reality
