If you want to learn about the nature of physical reality, naturally, you would turn to physics. It would seem a bit contradictory to say that physics itself can mislead you about the nature of physical reality. Yet, this can actually happen, and let me explain.
For any physical theory, it is possible to mathematically formulate it in various different mathematically equivalent ways. Yet, some formulations of the theory may be more difficult to carry out calculations in than others. Naturally, physicists will gravitate towards the formalism that is the simplest to perform calculations in.
Before quantum mechanics, there was matrix mechanics as developed by Heisenberg. Matrix mechanics is mathematically equivalent to quantum mechanics, and so it gives all of the same predictions. When Schrodinger developed the modern formulation of quantum mechanics, he referred to it as wave mechanics to distinguish it from Heisenberg’s formulation.
