Why do ordinary folks like me, who know nothing about advanced physics and only a smidgen of calculus, ever write about quantum mechanics? Heck, why do people who DO know the physics and all the necessary math, people like Fritjof Capra or Lee Smolin, persist in targeting writings on the subject to folks like me? The journalist Gary Zukav wrote The Dancing Wu Li Masters in 1979. This work has been much ridiculed as "New Age" stuff pretending to be physics. But Zukav wrote it after talking to a lot of real working physicists, participating in a 1976 physics conference as Esalen Institute, California, etc. Physicists don't just "talk among themselves" on these points. They make efforts to talk to the rest of us, explaining what it means. So they have to expect t...