FUNHOUSE QUANTUM MIRRORS

A married couple walks
through a room of funny mirrors at the carnival. The man who is a no nonsense bloke, tells
his wife who is an emminent physicist that he has never seen anything so disorganized,
‘this must be like the quantum world your are always on about’. 

'No’, she
replies smiling, 'the reflections here reach you by way of a curved material
layer that distorts the input to show you a preposterous picture. If we know
the curvature of the mirrors, we can calculate the result to rectify the image. Then you see how perfectly natural it is’.  

The man thinks about
that for a while and asks 'what if there is some material layer between us and
the quantum world that is distorting the image. Can’t you rectify the image by
calculating the effect’.

Don’t be silly dear,
says the wife,’ there are no material layers in the quantum world; it is all chaotic
and preposterous by nature’. Walking smiling through the
hall of funny mirrors, neither of them noticed the elephant in the room.