(March 28, 2022 at 7:46 pm)JairCrawford Wrote:(March 28, 2022 at 5:31 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: If you think of all those Starlings as "pieces" of the electron wave, then the analogy isn't bad.
Just don't think of the electron as being "inside" the electron cloud. It is the electron cloud. There is no tiny thing zipping around.
If the electron is the wave, and it’s not zipping around, how is the wave a probability of location? Is this where we get into particles being multiple places at once, and quantum leaps, and weird stuff like that?
Schrödinger's equation describes electrons, protons and many (perhaps, nearly all other, I'm not a physicist) particles. If you want to learn more, I would suggest an undergraduate text in physics, such as Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick and Walker.
