05-02-2016, 08:27 AM
Phil Thomas Wrote:Keep talking about Hamilton chaps.
All these postings reminded me of Hamiltonian operators.
Lifting a few words over from Wikipedia -
the result is that the Hamiltonian of the system is the sum of the separate Hamiltonians for each particle. This is an idealized situation - in practice the particles are usually always influenced by some potential, and there are many-body interactions. One illustrative example of a two-body interaction where this form would not apply is for electrostatic potentials due to charged particles, because they interact with each other by Coulomb interaction (electrostatic force), as shown below.
All very confusing at first reading.
Simplest interpretation of which is that the probability of an electron being at any location in the universe is never quite zero.
A concept that eventually lead Adams to develop the concept of the infinite improbability drive.
Have to stop writing now.
There is an an infinite number of monkeys at my office door - they want to discuss their latest script for Hamlet
