noodles2112 wrote:
Good!
I am still waiting to hear something about my posts suggesting that heliocentrism is random.
Is it not a theory based upon perpetual countless random cosmic coincidences?
Simply no. It is based on observable, measurable movements easily demonstrated with simple forms of math and science. It has been known to be true for hundreds of years and more recently has been further proven by observations from non-earthbound sources. It is only denied by the willfully ignorant led by charlatans who feed on them. Enter religions and conspiracy theorists.
I had to look up what a wave function was and now I am way dumber than when I started.
Very roughly and in my own awful words, a function is any series of results that comes from a series of values of a variable on which those results depend.
That means that if a function of x is y = 2x then for values of x of 1, 2, 3 ,4 etc, the values of the function are 2, 4, 6, 8. If we get a trigonometrical function then we can get a wave-form as the result (a wavy line). A wave function might be a depiction of the positions of photons after they've "had something done to them", maybe by travelling through a slit in a barrier, as in Young's Experiment (double-slit).
So the function would be a waveform and that's the result of the cause of the function, which is shining photons at slits in a barrier.
I've deliberately kept it simple, which helps me too. I know that Elroch has far more expertise than I do, in explaining such things, so he can give me a mark out of ten and improve where necessary. I'm hoping for a 7/10 but not expecting it.
Actually it appears to me to be a way of attempting to describe in purely mathematical terms a phenomena that behaves in a somewhat unpredictable way, although not entirely. Its easy to understand say an electrical A/C sine wave with its positive and negative alternations , but this is something entirely different and entirely beyond my understanding, although strangely alluring and interesting.