I meant in the sense of lies-to-children, or Wittgenstein's Ladder. I cannot remember the primary posts that gave me that impression, and I know they were better than this concrete example; but that shows what I was talking about. At a sufficiently granular layer, technically incorrect; but inarguably useful.

The entire Quantum Physics sequence is a protracted lie to people who can't or don't want to do the math.

This was explicit in the introduction to the sequence.