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Old 03-25-2014, 10:18 AM   #435
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Going back to the point about understanding QM - it's not really clear to me what "understanding" means in this case. Does it mean "knows the equations and can do the maths"; does it mean "has a feel for the *consequences* of QM"; does it mean "has an intuitive understanding about how a QM system will behave"?
Perhaps even "understanding what a wave function really is"? At a level "beyond" simply a mathematical construct? I'm not sure that I do, but equally, I'm not sure that it's necessary to do so.
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