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Quantum mechanics — the quantum and its limits
quantum mechanics
Not a floor beside the others - the framework they inhabit. Superposition and the Born rule are on the capstone, the Schrodinger equation on the Hamiltonian, the path integral on the Lagrangian. This floor gathers them and adds the three foundations not yet placed: quantization (the quantum of action, light in lumps), uncertainty (a proven limit, not an ignorance), and entanglement (the world is not locally real; one indivisible state). Four pillars rest on the Hamiltonian, Maxwell, the capstone, the instruments and relativity. The stick (stick_quantum_mechanics_the_quantum_and_its_limits) seals hbar, the photon, and the Bell bound (tools/seed_quantum_mechanics.py).
- has part → Quantization — the quantum of action, light in lumps — a foundation of quantum mechanics (Quantization)
- has part → Superposition & measurement — the wavefunction and the Born rule — a foundation of quantum mechanics (Superposition & measurement)
- has part → Uncertainty — a proven limit, not an ignorance — a foundation of quantum mechanics (Uncertainty)
- has part → Entanglement — the world is not locally real — a foundation of quantum mechanics (Entanglement)
- part of → The Floor of Discovery — one floor, and by its design the fear of God — the framework of the physics region on the one map
- charted by → Hermitian operators — real eigenvalues, the observables — real eigenvalues, the eigenbasis door, and unitary evolution - the formal object under the
- connects at → The periodic table — electrons in quantum shells — the periodic table is the Schrodinger equation plus Pauli exclusion: 2n^2 per shell
- charted by → The quantum harmonic oscillator — zero-point and the ladder — the zero-point and the ladder - the oscillator forced by uncertainty, on the quantum floor
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