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At first blush, this article seems to say that there's a solid hypothesis for which the math works consistently, and they know what they want to do in order to test that hypothesis. It's just a matter of designing and performing experiments.
But then, I read this:
I know atoms aren't "particles," and I'm pretty damned sure they're also not quanta.
Atoms are composite particles. And they surely are quantum particles as you need quantum mechanics to describe their behavior