Of course 100 years of experiments have proven something. The experiments have given physicists extremely accurate and amazingly predictive results (within 10 decimal places). Quantum field theory (Standard Model!) provides the most precise predictive power in all of physics. Heck, we wouldn't even have lasers if we didn't understand something of quantum physics to be true.
Of course, physicists don't know everything about how it all works behind the scenes, no argument there. The measurement problem, entanglement and non-locality (which has been demonstrated through experiment many times) . . . there are also lots of inconsistencies between it and general relativity and all that, but that still doesn't diminish how much they know about quantum theory's mathematical underpinnings and can show through experiment, even while not fully knowing
why it always does what it does.
I'll agree that we may never be able to see directly or even comprehend fully some aspects of theoretical physics just because we evolved in an environment and at a level where our brains just didn't need to be able to process that sort of information. Why wavefunctions collapse and the curled up dimensions of string-theory, for example. We might only be able to ever experience them through mathematics, but who knows. Maybe we'll one day discover gravitons and be able to send them through and find actual experimental evidence of extra-dimensional existence!
All considered, though, while quantum mechanics is still theoretical physics, it sits on some pretty solid ground, mathematically and experimentally.
Why it behaves the way it does, is, of course, a mystery in large part still, and the model is most definitely not complete, and we might not be able to ever fully understand it experimentally (hm, that doesn't sound so positive, haha). . . .
So, I still can't really say I agree with you on having to
prove quantum physics. Now, trying to prove a specific
interpretation of an
aspect of quantum physics, yeah, I might agree with you on that, that many of those have a way to go, such as wavefunction collapse, or if wavefunctions even exist at all.
Whoa, that was a bigger post than I intended. I'll agree with you also that quantum physics, and theoretical physics in general, is really interesting, even for a layman.
