My first computer was a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-10, the first time-sharing computer and part of MIT's Project MAC. In grad school, I had the first mini-computer, a DEC PDP-11/20, all to myself. It took up 3 full-height equipment racks and was equipped with an admittedly small 64k disk...
Thanks very much. I think I see my problem now. It is about under what conditions one may use the time-independent Schrodinger equation vs. the time-dependent one.
More for me to study!
I don't understand why it cannot be. If a particle is "riding" a pilot wave and is guided by it, then the pilot wave must precede the particle in some way. But at what speed? Isn't the simplest explanation that the pilot wave is instantaneous, with the particle simply being a phase phenomenon of...
I think it goes something like this. There are bosons (their "condensate") with small masses that supply the dark energy for the observed cosmological constant. These bosons have a wave function which must extend over the observable universe. The macroscopic ground state of that wave function...
I'm someone with only a decent undergraduate physics education, but a strong interest in it over the decades since. I find Scientific American articles fluffy and superficial, and will readily dive into the original journal papers. But my understanding of these is typically pretty incomplete...