@Caleon,
Smart people get fooled every time everywhere. But to argue in a discussion, that we can't question QM becasue of all the bright people founding QM must be right
is not a good argument to enlighten us. So please stop that, it is silly and no one learns anything.
To me QM, which is fitting quite nicely to data, but have weird consequences and is difficult to understand what physically it is.
We have Mills theory that also produces good agreement with observations - and I followed that math which can be daunting if you are not in a position
to be able to do some work by your own and skip unsessesary parts. But the thing with this theory is that it is physically understandable what is happening.
So obviously there is a link between those two theories, but it is not an obvious link. So this means that not knowing that Mills theory actually is sound, at least
in parts, you would be stuck in QM. Beeing stuck is not foolish and is not a sign of incompetence, just ignorance of the potential of Mills work and that there is
an alternative explanation to everything. I'm sure if Dirac, Hesienberg., Pauli etc knew there was a alternative explanation behind the path taken, they would
discover it and do that in a manner of great minds. The problem is that if the link is hidden, then an armada of scientists of great minds can fail to see it just
living in the current world of science - if the light is out in the room it is hard to find the switch, in a lightened room it is easier.
Oh BTW I have a semester of QM in the baggage - I was an A student in this subject at the time and was quite good at calculating and apply the theory.