Timeline for Wave packet as a field configuration acting like a particle's wave function?
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| Jul 19 at 0:44 | answer | added | Andrew | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 18 at 23:05 | history | edited | courno | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 18 at 22:38 | comment | added | FlatterMann | That is how wave packets emerge from plane waves. There is no such thing as a "particle" in nature. The minimal physical interaction in quantum mechanics is a quantum of energy, momentum, angular momentum and charge. Quantum theory can predict the average frequencies at which quanta of energy are being exchanged between systems and the correlations between such exchanges. It doesn't predict "particles". Many theorists like Sean Carrol are, unfortunately, too vetted to poorly conceived language from the early 20th century to give you the correct physical intuition for quantum mechanics. | |
| Jul 18 at 22:14 | answer | added | alanf | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 18 at 20:57 | history | asked | courno | CC BY-SA 4.0 |