Nasor: Yes, that's why I prefer the term 'probabilistic' over the term 'random.' Mathematically, 'random' is a perfectly acceptable term, but many people confuse randomness with the lack of a probability distribution. Naturally, a random variable can actually have any probability distribution you can dream up. A random variable is just one whose current value does not depend on any of its past values. - Warren
I thought that the mathematical definition of 'random' was that the present value is not in any way related to its past values. So you couldn't look at a large list of past values and use it to make predictions about what the present or future value would be.
It is. You can't predict an exact future value; but you can certainly predict probabilities for each possible value. You don't know the result of your next coin toss; but you know the odds are 50/50 heads/tails. - Warren
take a fucking math class. learn to solve D.E.'s no asshat on this forum will explain this better to you than 2 pages of simple calculations
i will offer nothing further to this we-todd-did thread other than anyone who is still confused on orbitals and wavefunctions, please quit thinking in terms of simplistic continuous spatial functions , and start thinking in terms of vectors and matrices.
because you arent looking for the fourier transform of a complex exponential to find the momentum of non-quantum objects.
