Re: oh, my god, physicist are really A-holes.


Igor wrote:
mainargv@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
oh, my god, physicist are really A-holes.
They tell you that there are this and that particle, photons,
electrons, and other interesting corner cases.
While they could have told you, there was just this one equation,
derived from the second derivative of Maxwell's equations, that they
regularly do math tricks with. No wonder no one will give a straight
face explanation where that quantum wave function came from. Every
introductory textbook either fudge the argument to unimpenetrable depth
to tell you how you must accept the wave function as a postulate. Of
course no one understands it, because there was no argument, no
insight, just an empty framework for people to do experiments to fill
in the corner cases. Now, that's a good strategy.

QM is axiomatic. But so are many other physics theories. They start
with certain assumptions and then derive further results. And I must
add that QM is the most successful physical theory ever devised. The
bottom line holds. But if you think that there is something wrong with
one of it's fundamental axioms, just say so and explain why, instead of
implying they're all nonsense, which is pretty stupid.

All the textbooks and web resources I can find, started to fudge after
hydrogen, saying how difficult or complacated things are. You have to
make three simplications just to write down the equation for Helium,
not to mention figuring out suitable boundary conditions. I guess It's
impractical to solve for Helium by hand. Now if all the indrotductory
resources sound like this, what would you think? Would you have
confidence in the theory?

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