The basic mystery of textbook Standard Quantum Mechanics StdQM serving as the foundation of modern physics, is the physical meaning of the wave function $\Psi (x_1,...,x_N)$ for a system with $N$ electrons depending on $N$ spatial variables $x_1,...,x_N$ each $x_i$ serving as the 3d Euclidean coordinate of a copy $E_i$ of the same Euclidean space $E=\Re^3$, for $i=1,...,N$, with the total coordinate $x=(x_1,...,x_N)$ sweeping over configuration space as $\Re^{3N}$.
The mystery comes from the fact the each $E_i$ is connected to an electron $i$ and so serves as an individual universe for each electron. Very strange. The inspiration maybe came for the Monad Theory of Leibniz where each monad (as form of elementary unit like an electron) has its own universe to dwell in, while taking in blurred perceptions from all other monads.
But electrons interact through Coulomb potentials
- $\frac{1}{\vert x_i -x_j\vert}$ with $i\neq j$
- Coulomb interaction between electrons in a common shared physical 3d space.
- Kinetic energy from presence of a Laplacian acting in each individual $E_i$.
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