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| Dec 24, 2015 at 19:01 | comment | added | CuriousOne | While Gennaro told you all the right things I would add that the "waves" in QM are not physical waves. They are an accounting procedure to calculate all possible futures of a quantum system. You can calculate the exact same thing without waves using matrices (linear operators) or path integrals. | |
| Dec 24, 2015 at 16:32 | answer | added | gented | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 24, 2015 at 16:14 | history | asked | vivek | CC BY-SA 3.0 |