I <i>highly</i> recommend Richard Feynman's QED (quantum electrodynamics) lectures. You can find them by googling something like feynman qed lecture auckland.<p>The quality of the videos is marginal, but the content is spectacular. I am not exaggerating or being metaphorical when I say my jaw dropped (open) while watching these.<p>I intend on reading the book soon: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5552.QED" rel="nofollow">http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5552.QED</a> “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter”
The title seems tautological.<p>If the number of energy states of a system are reduced to very few of course the quantum mechanical effects will be more noticible since the "blurred" system that fakes continuity is no longer there to mislead.
Perhaps, this is the case when an observer affects the observation. It <i>appears</i> to the instrument, created according to a model, that electrons are "like grands of sand" when they should be "fields".<p>But how could these "fields" in principle be observed with an instrument made out of atoms?