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Well, I’m not a particle physics guy (or a physics person in general. I’m more a math guy.), so it’s not as bad as if someone really in the field responded as
by drdeca 5y ago
Well, I’m not a particle physics guy (or a physics person in general. I’m more a math guy.), so it’s not as bad as if someone really in the field responded as I did.
I guess my confusion (which may be from ignorance of physics) is about how to handle depicting superpositions of whether or not the electron has been absorbed by the proton.
I don’t mean that that isn’t a problem with a good (known?) solution, just I don’t know one.
- jiggawatts 5y agoPrecisely. This is the "measurement problem", and nobody can give you a straight answer. This is why I give this acid test: it reveals this gap in the theory that is otherwise easy to gloss over. It's the difference between pseudocode on a whiteboard, and something that compiles, runs, and gives the correct answer. You can hand-wave one of those and claim correctness. The other will give you a compiler error.
- drdeca 5y agoNo, I think this is just because you either haven’t been precise enough in what you want, or you are asking for something unreasonable. (Possibly a combination of the two) This is why I asked you to specify what you were asking for.