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Naty1
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In a section describing "Problems Raised by Statistical Interpretation" of the Schrodinger wave equation, Albert Messiah (QUANTUM MECHANICS) says this:
Huh?
I assume he is referring to psi (r,t) which he originally introduced almost 100 pages earlier this way:
This seems "concrete" enough.
How to interpret the first quote?
(Wikipedia did not help. Nor a search here in the forums. )
Thanks.
...the wave equation is described in configuration space not in ordinary space; it can not therefore be identified with the concrete wave we are discussing...which is the representation of a quantum system by its wave function.
Huh?
I assume he is referring to psi (r,t) which he originally introduced almost 100 pages earlier this way:
The simplist system is that of a particle, for instance an electron, in an external force field. The wave which is associated with it at each instant t is a function of psi(r,t) of the position coordinates of that particle.
This seems "concrete" enough.
How to interpret the first quote?
(Wikipedia did not help. Nor a search here in the forums. )
Thanks.