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See here for what this difference implies: My toy model itself was:

I agree. I was very sloppy there.

It seems to me that what changes is the rate of change of the phase, not the phase itself. I guess the most direct interpretation of...

Are you sure? It is true that you can factorize ##\partial_t^2\phi=c^2\partial_x^2\phi## (1D-WE) into...

@PeterDonis Step two. In post #1, I said: 'As a matter of fact, Schrödinger's equation is first order in time derivatives, while the...

I strongly agree.

But you admit later on in your post that both of these things can also be true of a classical equation. So they don't explicitly tell...

I don't see a contradiction. A mathematical equation, in and of itself, doesn't tell you how to interpret it physically. You always have...

Clear, agreed. However, could you analyze specifically all the points in message #12? IMO, what I said involves a contradiction...

Yes, and the heat equation is not a wave equation. So this... ...doesn't seem right.

Well, I think I gave some context in post #1. It's a tricky question. Is Schrödinger's equation a wave equation or not? There are...

As a non-expert in QM, you seem to know an awful lot about it :wink:

I explained what the difference between Schrödinger's equation, which is first order in ##t##, and the classical wave equation, which is...

Yes. But what lies behind what I said in post #1 is that ##E=\sqrt{\left[\left(mc^2 \right)^2+\left(cp \right)^2 \right]}## in the first...

Yes, Schrödinger looks more like a diffusion equation with imaginary prefactors. That does not matter you can render the ordinary wave...