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On 10/25/2006 05:35 PM, Karim Diff wrote:cut
Can the question "Is the electron in that region?" be answered with a definite "Yes" or "No" ? (unless I misunderstand what "very likely to be no" means here). It seems to me the best we can do is to say what the probability of finding the electron in that region is.
That's an interesting and tricky question. Some possible answers
include:
-- If you look closely enough, almost everything is a probability.
BC wrote:
a case of being penalized for knowing too much.
Yeah, I reckon so.
It's little wonder that students tend to exhibit rote memorization
and not exhibit thinking or initiative or independence in school.
The rule for getting along in school is don't think about the
right answer; think about what the /expected/ answer is.
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