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Abstract

Students encountering quantum mechanics for the first time routinely describe the experience as a conceptual shock. The math works, the predictions are verified — yet something feels fundamentally wrong. This article argues, through the prism of the UNNS Substrate framework, that this discomfort is not a failure of intuition. It is a regime mismatch: students are trained in a HARD structural regime and then confronted without warning by a SOFT regime system that requires an entirely different ontological language. We reframe the four canonical "paradoxes" — superposition, probability clouds, quantization, and uncertainty — as straightforward consequences of admissibility-based structure, and propose three concrete steps to close the pedagogical gap.