Heh. Well I could follow the introduction essay once I had some sleep. But maybe that's because I'm used to basic principles not making sense so that you'd really *grok* them, but just making sense in that they work... I mean quantum theory is like that a lot. When they teach it to you as a physics student you get explained the mathematical mechanisms that allow you to calculate the things that you measure in experiments, first on an introductory level and it comes up many times later, and obviously people ask "but what does it mean?" and "how am I supposed to imagine that?" at first, but it just doesn't make the same kind of "intuitive" sense classical physics does, and basically they just tell you to use and practice the calculations and to accept the axioms, because so far everything has proven the calculations are in accordance with the experiments and that's really all you could ask for. And if you use the equations enough, then you'd get used to it, so that after a while accepting it seems normal and for those who do it a lot even kind of intuitive. But it's really just practice.

Unlike DC universe laws quantum theory at least works consistently though, and doesn't change its rules every couple of years. *grin* Fortunately with the DCU the "practice" (i.e. reading comics using Hypertime) is more pleasant than to practice solving Schrödinger equations, so you don't mind adapting to the changing rules so much. ;)