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Hi!
I am a bit confused about something Heisenberg said about the wave-particle dualism.
In his book about physics and philosophy he wrote:
"The dualism between the two complementary pictures - waves and particles - is also clearly brought out in the flexibility of the mathematical scheme. The formalism is normally written to resemble Newtonian mechanics, with equations of motion for the co-ordinates and the momenta of the particles. But by a simple transformation it can be rewritten to resemble a wave equation for an ordinary three-dimenslonal matter wave."
Could anyone tell me how these equations and in particular, this "simple transformation" explicitly looks like?
Thanks!
I am a bit confused about something Heisenberg said about the wave-particle dualism.
In his book about physics and philosophy he wrote:
"The dualism between the two complementary pictures - waves and particles - is also clearly brought out in the flexibility of the mathematical scheme. The formalism is normally written to resemble Newtonian mechanics, with equations of motion for the co-ordinates and the momenta of the particles. But by a simple transformation it can be rewritten to resemble a wave equation for an ordinary three-dimenslonal matter wave."
Could anyone tell me how these equations and in particular, this "simple transformation" explicitly looks like?
Thanks!