Science is not about creating puzzles — it is about solving them.
For a century, quantum mechanics has often been portrayed as an unintelligible miracle:

“Electrons have no trajectories.”
“Observation creates reality.”
“The universe splits into countless parallel worlds.”
“Consciousness affects matter.”

Some of these statements stem from misreadings of mathematics, others from media distortion, and some from philosophical confusion within physics itself. Together, they have produced what may be called Quantum Mysticism — a veil of mystery around a fundamentally natural phenomenon.

Yet the truth is simple: quantum phenomena are not mystical; they are the natural expressions of matter and field interactions at microscopic scales.
The task before us is to clear away the fog and restore the original mission of science — to understand reality.

This is the purpose of Natural Quantum Theory （or Realistic Quantum Theory）.

Natural Quantum Theory introduces no new assumptions—no hidden variables, no many-worlds, no collapse mechanisms, and no invocation of consciousness.
Instead, it reorganizes, distinguishes, and synthesizes the established physical theories and experimental facts already at hand.
Its aim is to dissolve the conceptual disorder that has accumulated over a century of interpretive confusion, enabling quantum theory to recover the clear, continuous, and realistic physical picture it was always meant to represent.

I. The Original Aspiration of Science: Understanding Reality, Not Creating Mystery

From Galileo, Newton, and Maxwell to Einstein, science has always stood upon a single conviction:
The world exists objectively, independent of observation.
The task of science is to reveal its structure and its laws — a view known as Scientific Realism.

However, in the twentieth century, this conviction was shaken.
Faced with quantum phenomena that defied classical intuition, many physicists turned from understanding to calculation:

“Don’t ask where the electron is — just compute the probability.”
“If you’re not confused, you don’t understand quantum mechanics.”

Thus arose Instrumental Quantum Theory — a view that treats quantum mechanics as a black-box calculator: inputs are experimental setups, outputs are measurement results, and whatever happens in between is declared meaningless.

This intellectual retreat soon opened the door to Quantum Mysticism —
claims about “quantum consciousness,” “quantum healing,” or “Buddhism proving quantum mechanics.”
Such pseudoscience, clothed in the language of physics, is the inevitable result of abandoning realism.

II. Natural Quantum Theory: A Scientific Revolution Returning to Realism

Natural Quantum Theory (NQT) is not a new form of metaphysics or speculation.
It is a correction — a restoration of realism within the quantum domain.

Its central claim is that the success of quantum mechanics arises not from mystery,
but from the fact that its formalism has unintentionally captured the real structure of nature.

NQT builds on two experimentally established natural facts:

1. Charge Quantization

• All observed charges are integer multiples of the elementary charge $e$.

• This inherent discreteness in electromagnetic interaction needs no additional “quantization postulate.”

2. Spectral Discreteness of Confined Waves

• A guitar string produces only specific notes; a microwave cavity supports only discrete resonant frequencies.

• Electrons bound in atoms are likewise confined waves, allowed only certain stable oscillation modes — the true origin of discrete energy levels.

Planck’s constant thus serves merely as a conversion factor that quantifies the degree of natural discreteness.
Quantization is not an assumption — it is a necessary consequence of natural constraints.

III. Three Paradigms Compared

Question	Mystical Quantum Theory	Instrumental Quantum Theory	Natural Quantum Theory
What is the wave function?	Projection of consciousness; “universal information field.”	Computational tool for probability amplitudes.	Physical field mode (e.g., standing or resonant wave).
Do electrons have orbits?	All orbits exist in parallel universes.	Orbits are meaningless; only probability clouds exist.	Electrons follow oscillatory, structured trajectories.
What is measurement?	Collapse by consciousness.	Postulated wave-function collapse (no physical cause).	A physical interaction achieving local equilibrium.
Quantum entanglement?	Telepathic or nonlocal communication.	Nonlocal correlation (accepted, not explained).	Shared field mode within a single coherent system; no superluminal information.
Goal of science?	Mystical harmony with consciousness.	Predict measurement results.	Understand objective structures and causal mechanisms.
Philosophical stance?	Subjective idealism.	Instrumental anti-realism.	Scientific realism.

✅ Natural Quantum Theory draws the line clearly:
It rejects mysticism and transcends instrumentalism.
Its pursuit is an intelligible, lawful, and continuous physical world.

IV. How Natural Quantum Theory Restores Reality

• Particles Have Structure
  Electrons are not mathematical points but extended entities at the scale of their Compton wavelength, with distributed charge and field structure.

• Spin Is Real Rotation
  The magnetic moment of the electron arises from the relativistically corrected rotation of this charge distribution — not from an abstract “intrinsic property.”

• Trajectories Exist
  Within atoms, electrons execute oscillatory motions that satisfy standing-wave conditions.
  This naturally yields Bohr quantization without invoking collapse or probability postulates.

• Fields Are Real
  Electromagnetic fields carry local energy, momentum, and angular momentum; magnetic energy is not “hidden” but stored within the field’s configuration.

• Processes Are Causal
  Quantum transitions are not instantaneous “jumps” but continuous transformations between resonant modes — processes with definable temporal dynamics.

V. An Epistemological Redemption

Instrumental quantum theory taught that

“The world is inherently random and unknowable.”

Quantum mysticism went further:

“Science will one day confirm ancient spiritual wisdom.”

But Natural Quantum Theory asserts:

“Complexity is not mystery, and the unknown is not the unknowable.”

The difficulty of quantum mechanics lies not in nature’s strangeness but in our misuse of language — treating mathematical tools of spectral analysis (wave functions, operators) as if they were physical entities.

It is like confusing a musical score with music, or a map with the territory.
The task of NQT is to restore the territory to the map, the music to the score — to reattach mathematical formalism to physical reality.

VI. Conclusion: The Mission of Science Is to Demystify, Not Mystify

“Nature never plays tricks; she only waits for us to understand her correctly.”

Natural Quantum Theory does not overthrow the mathematics of quantum mechanics.
It retrieves what the formalism lost — its physical imagery and realist foundation.

It restores our confidence that:

• The moon exists even when no one observes it;

• Electrons move realistically within atoms;

• The universe remains continuous, causal, and intelligible.

This is not only a step forward in physics —
it is a return to the spirit of science itself.
True science stands always opposed to mysticism,
and Natural Quantum Theory is its reaffirmation in the quantum age.