State Vectors vs. Wavefunctions

stevendaryl · Apr 3, 2018

bob012345 said:

My takeaway from this discussion is that the physics sometimes gets lost in the math. Very disheartening when intelligent people can't even agree on the mathematics of quantum theory.

I don't think the disagreement is very deep. It's a disagreement about how best to describe what's going on, but there's no disagreement about how to use the mathematics.

bob012345 · Apr 3, 2018

stevendaryl said:

I don't think the disagreement is very deep. It's a disagreement about how best to describe what's going on, but there's no disagreement about how to use the mathematics.

What is going on that the mathematical treatments are not agreeing. What is the physics? Thanks.

Orodruin · Apr 3, 2018

bob012345 said:

What is going on that the mathematical treatments are not agreeing.

Nothing. Nobody is disagreeing on what the actual mathematics are. The argument is about how to best define one's notation.

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