Schrodinger's equation is usually treated as a postulate, and IMHO that's the best approach, rather than some kind of derivation based on chronologically earlier, but less general, principles and ...

Physicists’ main goal is to be able to predict what will happen in the future based on patterns they’ve already observed, whether in massive systems of stars or tiny groups of atoms. Predicting ...

Caveat lector: I begin by reminding you that I am not a physicist. But I want to draw attention to a well-known feature of the Schrodinger equation that I have never heard discussed and wonder at its ...

The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...