The wave function's collapse is just an observer suddenly and discontinuously revising his or her probability assignments based on new information, in the same way that a doctor would revise a ...

The equation for the wave function is the starting point, for instance, for drawing the colorful shapes in chemistry textbooks that show the probability of an electron being in a certain spot.

If the wave function is a real object, then one of those possibilities always has a zero probability, because the wave function is either representing the good state or the bad state, but not both.

Instead, they exist as a wave function, a probability distribution that includes all the possible locations where a particle might be found.

But problems arise when physicists assume that a wave function is real. QBism, which combines quantum theory with probability theory, maintains that the wave function has no objective reality.

To describe the huge numbers of positions and velocities a particle can have at any given moment, physicists use wave functions, which are essentially probability equations.

The Many Worlds Interpretation (or MWI): This interpretation is based solely on the Schrodinger equation, and it tells the story of the probability wave with unnerving accuracy.

But Born argued instead that the amplitude of the wave function is related to a probability — specifically, the probability that you will find the particle at that position if you detect it ...

One example is a wave in shallow water. Though governed by classical hydrodynamics, shallow water waves can have waveforms ...