Eliezer, thank you for your posts. I'm new to this site—not to mention to QM—and I've been reading this series with much interest, albeit with fluctuating success.
I've been concentrating on the Intuitive Explanation index, re-reading the posts and comments several times over, but I'm pretty sure I'm still missing some important aspect. This is what I'm getting so far. I would love it if somebody more knowledgeable could point out where exactly my understanding went astray.
I get that any particle, such as an electron, is actually a (part of a) wave moving over some field. This wave, or wavefunction, has values all over the place: it is a complex-valued, continuous and differentiable... (read 495 more words →)
Eliezer, thank you for your posts. I'm new to this site—not to mention to QM—and I've been reading this series with much interest, albeit with fluctuating success.
I've been concentrating on the Intuitive Explanation index, re-reading the posts and comments several times over, but I'm pretty sure I'm still missing some important aspect. This is what I'm getting so far. I would love it if somebody more knowledgeable could point out where exactly my understanding went astray.
I get that any particle, such as an electron, is actually a (part of a) wave moving over some field. This wave, or wavefunction, has values all over the place: it is a complex-valued, continuous and differentiable... (read 495 more words →)