Revisit: Hamiltonian Quantum Mechanics

• Energy operator generates the wave function,

  • according to Schrödinger’s time-dependent equation

• Propensity wave generates the actual measurement

  • according to Born’s Probability Rule for |?|2

• Actual measurements = selections of alternate histories

• ‘Energy’, ‘propensity waves’ are two kinds of propensity.

‘Active Energy’

Propensity Wave

Actual Outcome

(Hamiltonian Operator)

(Wave function)

(Measurement)

Schrödinger Equation

Born’s Probability Rule

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