- Max Born was more closely involved than anyone else in the debate with Schrödinger.
- In November 1952, he was due to hold a series of lectures at the university of London, and he expected Schrodinger to be one of the main participants in the public discussion. As it turned out, Schrodinger was unable to attend, due to ill health, but the elements of the controversy were recorded in two articles published in Born's edition of the Born-Einstein letters.
- Let me first try to summarize Born's account of Schrödinger's position:
- It is an essentially "conservative attitude towards quantum mechanics"; an attempt to recover the "classical physics of clearly comprehensible events",
- It tends to dismiss the "statistical concept of quantum mechanics" and to reinstate determinism, in agreement with Einstein's views.
- It leads one to the discarding of the very concept of a particle, to asserting that "there are no particles and there are no energy quanta".
- Schrödinger considers that "particles are narrow wave packets",
- Schrödinger insists that there is something behind the phenomena, the sense impressions, namely waves moving in a still scantily explored medium; he tends to forget the multi-dimensional character of the Psi-functions and to insist on waves in ordinary 3-dimensional space, which are supposed to rescue the "Anschaulichkeit" (picturability) of the theoretical description;
- He believes that his waves constitute the final deterministic solution.
This is essentially the picture I try to fill with RealQM. After recalling Schrödinger's position, Born went on to refute it once and for all, and Schrödinger passed away, but maybe to reappear at the upcoming centennial celebrations of his masterpiece from 1926. Schrödinger was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1933 for his wave equation, while Born had to wait to 1954 after his refutation of the same thing.
Compare with what chatGPT has to say.
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