How Quantum Mechanics Screws with our Perception of Reality

This trailer was muddled and unsatisfying. There are some topics that lend themselves to a 300-second trailer, but the nature of reality is not one of them. I'm an engineer/scientist by training and regular reader of the NewScientist and I applaud their mission to bring current science topics to the masses. However, I can't imagine how this video could accomplish anything other than to suggest that reality is an unknowable, mystical paradox. Oh, and that trying to understand it isn't easy. But, lest I be taken to task for being a poor critic, let me identify just a few of the more problematic items. The assertion that those four pillars "can't...all be right at the same time" improperly implies mutual exclusivity of different kinds of things. And, most disappointingly, the rhetorical question "does that mean science is wrong?" New Scientist, you built some snappy click-bait, but you didn't do us a solid.

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