3 ms·
If you think numerical examples would help you probably need to read a quantum field theory book and understand that this is really complicated stuff. Physicis
by mhh__ 5y ago
If you think numerical examples would help you probably need to read a quantum field theory book and understand that this is really complicated stuff.
Physicists for the most part aren't talking down spiritually, they're just talking to the equivalent of a child.
- mungal 5y agoI made sure to say “outreach” stead “education”. I think it’s a paradox to say “you need to be fully educated on a subject to engage with an explanation intended for lay people”.
- sandpaper26 5y agoThere's a wonderful textbook, I think by Griffiths, that starts from the premise that if you learn the math of quantum mechanics first (i.e. how to actually set up and solve relevant systems of equations) then it's much easier to learn the meaning and implications after. It gives you a lot of problems up front to give you a rock-solid grounding in numerical examples, and only in part 2 does he delve into what it all means.
- vmilner 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Quantum_Mechanics_(book) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_Quantum_Mech...
- mhh__ 5y agoHis book on elementary particles perhaps? I think there's a General Relativity book that does the same thing only with the schwarzchild solution, but I'm not sure who wrote it.
- peteradio 5y agoYes indeed, very early on it shows the equivalence of summing over position/momentum states. Depending on the desired answer one is much easier to calculate.