Veiled Reality

While quantum mechanics appears as being the most basic element of contemporary physics, its meaning remains mysterious to the very physicists who make use of it, and is acknowledged as such by all those among them who care about such questions. The final message of the book?stemming from a careful, comprehensive analysis?is that this apparent obscurity is there to stay, in the sense that what quantum mechanics (and therefore the whole of physics) describes in detail is not what could be consistently referred to as ?man-independent reality”. It is essentially what philosophers call ?empirical reality,” that is, reality as seen through the ?colored glasses” or our sensorial equipment and our possibilities of action. Of mind-independent reality we perceive, at best, some distorted general structures. It is veiled.