Time-Dependent Schrodinger Eq: Integrating Time?

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My own question, carried to a new thread as not to derail another:

This brings another question to mind, regarding whether that information (time) is already implicitly present [in the time-independent Schroedinger equation]. In modern physics is it as easy to integrate time into an equation as it is with classical physics?

My line of thought being that if you have the Hamiltonian, you have momentum, which contains velocity, which can be separated and integrated as dx/dt to introduce a time-dependence.

I've seen the formula for the time-dependent equation, but I haven't followed the mathematical development of it. I've only really worked with the one-dimensional, time-independent schrodinger equation... and the math is still shaky for me.
 
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Volumes have been written on this subject -- google for it, and focus on the papers from peer reviewed journals -- there's quite a bit of crack all over on this topic. You might want to learn classical mechanics a little further -- Goldstein, Classical Mechanics is the classic (no pun intended) reference. Understanding the role of time in classical mechanics is a prerequisite before you move on to the much trickier situation in QM. Suffice to say that momentum and velocity have almost exactly nothing to do with each other.
 
Insights auto threads is broken atm, so I'm manually creating these for new Insight articles. Towards the end of the first lecture for the Qiskit Global Summer School 2025, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Olivia Lanes (Global Lead, Content and Education IBM) stated... Source: https://www.physicsforums.com/insights/quantum-entanglement-is-a-kinematic-fact-not-a-dynamical-effect/ by @RUTA
If we release an electron around a positively charged sphere, the initial state of electron is a linear combination of Hydrogen-like states. According to quantum mechanics, evolution of time would not change this initial state because the potential is time independent. However, classically we expect the electron to collide with the sphere. So, it seems that the quantum and classics predict different behaviours!
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