> but QM feels especially unapproachable

Definitely.  This is an excerpt from the [Portal Wiki](https://theportal.wiki/wiki/Graph,_Wall,_Tome) that Eric Weinstein and some of his followers have put together:

>The knowledge of fundamental physics and the mathematics necessary to perform and understand it are known to few, maybe some tens of thousands of people at most, and commitment to reach those levels entails almost a decade of graduate and post-graduate study. Yet what if it was all much easier and much harder to understand? What if the necessary knowledge was finite and more rapidly attainable to a broader population than those select few? What if there was a way to identify and abstract the most basic physical structures, a list of all the tools to build and operate on those structures, and a user's guide to describe how to use those tools?


I wish I had a better grasp of physics at this level so I could determine what is and isn't coherent. Without my sophomoric understanding of physics, I'd probably regard most physics concepts as unapproachable, but QM feels especially unapproachable. It feels an awful lot like modern journalism generally. Much of it lacks simple verifiability and its incredibly opaque.

k00b

This video is an excerpt from a longer version found here: 

In the longer version he summarizes a few important points that paint this strange picture:

aliens_and_UFOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lijDw5bN9sc

This video is an excerpt from a longer version found here: [The Dark History of Anti-Gravity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lijDw5bN9sc)

In the longer version he summarizes a few important points that paint this strange picture:

1. 1915 - Einstein published General Relativity
2. 1920s to the early 1950s - Gravity research seems to stagnate
3.  Around 1950s - Two successful business men, Agnew Banhson and Roger Babson, start privately funding research into gravity/anti-gravity. 
       - 1948 Babson founded the **Gravity Research Foundation**
       - 1955 Bahnson founded the **Institute for Field Physics**
4. Well known scientists like Bryce and Cecile Dewitt and others got involved, and began to grow the reputation of these institutes
5. The Glenn L. Martin Company became a donor, then founded their own institute, also in 1955, called the **Research Institute for Advanced Study**.

     - Not to be confused with (or is it supposed to be?) the well known **Institute for Advanced Study** at Princeton.
     - Glenn L. Martin Co. merged in 1961 to become Martin Marietta, then again in 1995 to become Lockheed Martin


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