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Yes it does.
This is one of the reasons Einstein had a problem with it and introduced the EPR Paradox. Quantum Mechanics clearly tells us matter doesn't exist. Subatomic particles can be in two places at once, they can communicate over vast distances(Einstein called it spooky action at a distance),
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While we have thus shown that the wave function does not provide a complete description of the physical reality, we left open the question of whether or not such a description exists. We believe, however, that such a theory is possible.
particles are also waves, space, time and the laws of physics break down at Planck's Constant.
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No experiment current or planned will allow the precise probing or complete understanding of the Planck scale.
This is why many people will say Quantum mechanics is incomplete. It's because to them there has to be some yet undiscovered physics that will bring everything back to a materialist reality. This is just wishful thinking.
Quantum mechanics tells us the classical universe is processing information from the Quantumverse. The laws of physics govern information processing not anything called matter.
Subatomic particles don't just behave differently, there isn't any resemblence to what we call matter on a classical level. Some subatomic paricles are massless others are point particles meaning they don't take up any space.
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A point particle is an appropriate representation of any object whose size, shape, and structure is irrelevant in a given context. For example, from far enough away, an object of any shape will look and behave as a point-like object.
So you try to say a subatomic particle is matter, yet you can't show that a subatomic particle takes up any space. I'm looking at my basketball now and it's taking up space, yet the particles that make up the basketball doesn't take up any space.
These things don't need some yet to be discovered physics to explain what's going on. Scientist want this because many of them are materialist. Materialism is just another ism like Judaism or Catholicism.
Just think about this. A quantum computer laptop will have more processing power than the entire classical universe.
At the end of the day if we just accept what quantum mechanics tells us about the universe we will learn and advance even more.
A point particle (ideal particle[1] or point-like particle, often spelled pointlike particle) is an idealized object heavily used in physics. Its defining feature is that it lacks spatial extension: being zero-dimensional, it does not take up space.[2] A point particle is an appropriate representation of any object whose size, shape, and structure is irrelevant in a given context. For example, from far enough away, an object of any shape will look and behave as a point-like object.
In quantum mechanics, there is a distinction between an elementary particle (also called "point particle") and a composite particle. An elementary particle, such as an electron, quark, or photon, is a particle with no internal structure, whereas a composite particle, such as a proton or neutron, has an internal structure (see figure). However, neither elementary nor composite particles are spatially localized, because of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
So you're the end all of all knowledge of physics? Are you telling me there is nothing more to learn at all?
While we have thus shown that the wave function does not provide a complete description of the physical reality, we left open the question of whether or not such a description exists. We believe, however, that such a theory is possible.
Einstein struggled to the end of his life for a theory that could better comply with causality, protesting against the view that there exists no objective physical reality other than that which is revealed through measurement interpreted in terms of quantum mechanical formalism. However, since Einstein's death, experiments analogous to that of the EPR paradox have been carried out, starting in 1976 by French scientists at the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre. These experiments appear to show that the local realism theory is false.