Adam Becker
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I can do that with three numbers.
I can say, okay, this pen is this height above the ground, and it's this far off to the right, and it's this far in front of me.
That's three numbers.
That's all I need.
If I wanna take all the information I have about where I'm gonna find an electron or some subatomic particle in quantum physics,
It's not going to require three numbers.
It's going to require an infinity of numbers scattered across all of space.
And this set of numbers is called a wave function.
And as the name implies, it kind of waves.
It undulates smoothly.
And that wavy motion is described by this very nice, pretty equation called the Schrodinger equation.
And the Schrodinger equation kind of smells like a law of physics.
Okay.
It looks like a good candidate for a fundamental law of physics.
And it says that wave functions, you know, they wave.
They move smoothly.
And they move in a completely determined fashion.
There's nothing random or probabilistic about it.
Okay.
So when we zoom.