Schrodinger's equation is usually treated as a postulate, and IMHO that's the best approach, rather than some kind of derivation based on chronologically earlier, but less general, principles and ...

As Joe Howlett points out, "the Schrödinger equation remains physicists’ foremost window into the quantum realm. It tells scientists how that strange world works; that is, how quantum objects interact ...

Quantum mechanics is perhaps the most unintuitive theory ever devised. And yet it’s also the most successful, in terms of sheer predictive power. Simply by following the math of quantum mechanics, ...

Caveat lector: I begin by reminding you that I am not a physicist. But I want to draw attention to a well-known feature of the Schrodinger equation that I have never heard discussed and wonder at its ...

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