I think the key to reconciling this with the general description of physicists as mostly realists is the "shut up and calculate" statement of Feynman. It is an acknowledgement that there is no good realistic explanation for how QM works. It deliberately tables the question; tacitly acknowledging Feynman's inability to solve it.
Because today's physicists can't explain it it can't be explained?
Doug
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