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Here was the deal for me.
I was always terrible with math all the way up till high school. Seriously, It was typical for me to make all A's except for B's and C's in math. I took algebra I in the 8th grade, and pretty much failed (I should have failed, but no child can be left behind!). They made me retake the class in the 9th grade.
During the 10th grade, I had a terrible year (academically and personally, but we'll stick to the academic part). My parents are both college graduates with high hopes that I too would graduate from college. They were concerned that I wouldn't have a shot at a decent school if I kept going the way I did. It really stressed me out because I hated disappointing my parents, but even more so I hated when people underestimated me.
I thought to myself, "How can I show them I'm smart. I know I learn physics! Physicist are smart!... what the hell is physics anyways?" I bought one book and rented another. Both of these greatly peaked my interests into the science fields.
From that point on, I started truly applying myself to school (particularly to improving my math skills). I don't naturally excel at mathematics, but since I have a will to learn it, I can. I'm close to graduating with a BSME, and have made A's in all my math courses.
TLDR: You don't need to naturally excel at math to be good at it. You need time and a will to learn it.
This is one of my favorite books. Give it a looksie.
I don't really understand what you're getting at with your bullet points. There's a strong suspicion that they'll find it because so far the standard model has been correct at describing the universe on small scales. The reason it's being looked for is that the standard model predicts its existence, even though we haven't seen it yet.
The rest of your comment is exactly the point of QM, because all particles are waves. There are only waves, which coalesce into particles when we observe them (at which point there are only particles). The cognitive bias here isn't so much that we're biased towards particles, but that we're biased towards things existing even when nothing is looking at them.
To go back to the double slit experiment, we understand that electrons exhibit an interference pattern (peaks/troughs of the wave interfere with one another to give bars at the back wall). If we put an examiner on one or both slits, to see which side the electron went through, then we get just two bars at the back wall (as you'd see with a particle). Particles exist as waves until they're examined, and then they settle into behaving like particles again. Further, there is evidence to suggest that this collapsing of wave into matter is directly related to its being observed by a conscious (currently understood to be human, but not necessarily only human).
If this sounds weird and impossible, welcome to the club.
I'd highly recommend reading The Physics of Consciousness if you're curious about learning more. It came out a while ago, but is a pretty good jumping off point for further education (without going to the trouble of getting a PhD).
/u/NeverWasNorWillBe (in full 2 months ago as I cliqued),
>What's the point of posting this here?
"for me to poop on"- el, Triumph, the comic dog:
>Introduction
>Beneath the soil of Jackson
>Whom the gods love dies young
> -Menandes
>As I walked down the steps of her apartment, my mind went back over the years. My mind went back to things that have been and that I have done, the things of my life and the things of this day. I will write of this, someday. I will tell what happened here. But time is needed for its meaning to grow clear, to become part of the perspective that gives life meaning. Time is needed for the images to be reflected in the history of my life.
>My mind went back to the things I must say here - back to an image, to a terrible image, to a vision of my future and my purpose. My mind went back there.
>She lay there dead. ...
~Evan H. Walker (pbuh)
http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Consciousness-Quantum-Mind-Meaning/dp/0738204366
I am just going to leave this here, smokey.
Is it similar to this book?
http://www.amazon.com/The-Physics-Of-Consciousness-Quantum/dp/0738204366