Summary
Particles have wave character!
Schrodinger’s Equation predicts the wave function Y with complete certainty
- Agrees with all experiments up to now
The meaning of Y2 is the probability that the particle will be found at a given place and time
Heisenberg showed that quantum mechanics leads to uncertainty relations for pairs of variables
Quantum Theory says that we can only measure individual events that have a range of possibilities
- We can never predict the result of a future measurement with certainty
- More next time on how quantum theory forces us to reexamine our beliefs about the nature of the world