(March 28, 2022 at 8:28 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(March 28, 2022 at 7:46 pm)JairCrawford Wrote: 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.
Schrodinger's equation is a non-relativistic equation, and so does not incorporate spin or anti-matter. It is a good approximation for most atomic physics.
Dirac's equation is the relativistic version for fermions (electrons, protons) and Maxwell's equations are the version for spin 1 bosons (photons being the main example).
The philosophy slightly changes when going to field theories, with the Lagrangian being the point of focus.
