"We must be clear that, when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.
The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections."
- Neils Bohr, quoted by Werner Heisenberg in his book "Physics and Beyond" (translated by Arnold J. Pomerans)
As humanity has dragged itself from the constrained systems of classical mechanics, we find ourselves engaing with an elusive world invisible to our natural senses.
It is only with our wits, persistence, and clever design that we may unravel these hidden treasures surrounding us.
Unfortunately, its inherent lack of direct observatability paired with our languages' foundation being built upon our senses creates a poor mixture for the scientific communicator (although perhaps that is part of what makes it so enticing).
A concept's validity in the math does not guarantee its translatability into words.
How does one even begin to find the words to describe something as fundamental as quantum spin, the not-angular-momentum angular momentum of a not-point-like point-like particle?
It would be rather foolish to make the claim that any language is stagnant and not reactive to needs.
Ours has made leaps to catch up as we broaden our knowledge; we no longer think of electrons as balls suspended in an atom or orbiting a nucleus, but rather as probability clouds hovering in quantum-determined regions about a nucleus.
But even this picture may not capture the full "truth" and is only a helpful analogy relating quantum phenomena to more conceivable objects.
With each step down the ladder of translation, much like with each calculation done in succession, we lose certainty and accuracy.
So join me friend, and together we shall try to piece together the meaning behind the math in our menagerie of quantum life.