[pmontra]

This is new to me (thanks, I'll investigate) and it's the kind of things the books of Physics at University (Computer Science) was full of, completely detached from real world experience. Then there was the book of exercises to prepare for the exams. Sometimes finding the right way to go from theory to calculations was a puzzle in its own. I guess that they were almost the very same books they used at the Physics department and teachers are really interested only in students that can master the subject by themselves with no help. I had one of those students at high school. He was reading university books by 16 and he is a professor now.

Luckily the books of Physics at high school started from practical experience and then showed the equations. So, my advice to somebody willing to learn physics, with plenty of time, no ambition to become a researcher is: go through high school books to get the gist of the subject, then go deeper with one of those university books.

[Ono-Sendai]

Are you saying my statement is very abstract? or down to earth?

[pmontra]

I break it down in reverse order to let you understand how I get a gist of that definition

wavefunction, for example light or any particle, this can't be argued.

the complex plane, because? But a complex number is only a pair of numbers and I know that in polar notation it's handy for:

rotation! And I remember that the electric and magnetic components are on orthogonal planes so we are back to complex numbers and maybe the components rotate, but how about neutral particles? But they are not neutral inside. I think that I'm already off track, very lost.

Energy = frequency, because I know that higher frequency photons are more energetic.

Finally, usually we learn about kinetic energy, then E = mc^2 and maybe about the relativistic effects, without the formula. Those things can be understood easily and are taught at school. The jump to angular rotation and the complex plane is something that few people are exposed to and, as I hope to have demonstrated, it's not easy to map to common experiences, which could be inevitable.

[Ono-Sendai]

Hi, fair enough. I've thoroughly immersed myself in this stuff enough that I sometimes don't realise people aren't as familiar with the concepts and jargon. I'm going to write another article that I think should help about the Klein gordon equation, at some point.

See my last article here https://forwardscattering.org/page/Intuitive%20Quantum%20Ele... Although it is a bit technical. next one will start simpler.