Comment by bsder

> When I was a physics undergrad, most of my professors were fans of the "shut up and calculate" interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Well, you build "intuition" via "experience"--generally lots of experience to get small amounts of intuition.

> Usually the qualitative descriptions don't quite make sense if you think very hard about them- and if you dig deeper it's often just "we found some math that fits our experimental data"

Well, the math needs to fit the data and have predictive power. That "predictive" side is really important and is what sets "science" apart from everything else.

> Ultimately, this is probably just a symptom of still not having yet discovered some really important stuff.

Sure. But wouldn't the world be incredibly boring if we had it all figured out?