  The job of a physicist is to describe Nature. General features, hypotheses
and theories help to describe physics phenomena at a more abstract, fundamental
level, and are sometimes tacitly assigned some sort of real existence; doing so
appears to be of little harm in most of classical physics. However, missing any
tangible connection to everyday experience, one better always bears in mind the
descriptive nature of any efforts to grasp the quantum. And elementary
particles interact in the quantum world, of course. When communicating the
world of elementary particles to the general public, the Bayesian approach of
an ever ongoing updating of the depiction of reality turns out to be virtually
indispensable. The human experience of providing a series of increasingly
better descriptions generates plenty of personal pleasures, for researchers as
well as for amateurs. A suggestive analogy for improving our understanding of
the world, even the seemingly paradoxical quantum world, may be found in recent
insight into how congenitally blind children and young adults learn to see,
after having received successful eye surgery.
