{"id":202625,"date":"2024-12-28T08:28:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T14:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/numerical-simulations-show-how-the-classical-world-might-emerge-from-the-many-worlds-universes-of-quantum-mechanics"},"modified":"2024-12-28T08:28:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T14:28:39","slug":"numerical-simulations-show-how-the-classical-world-might-emerge-from-the-many-worlds-universes-of-quantum-mechanics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/numerical-simulations-show-how-the-classical-world-might-emerge-from-the-many-worlds-universes-of-quantum-mechanics","title":{"rendered":"Numerical simulations show how the classical world might emerge from the many-worlds universes of quantum mechanics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/numerical-simulations-show-how-the-classical-world-might-emerge-from-the-many-worlds-universes-of-quantum-mechanics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Students learning quantum mechanics are taught the Schrodinger equation and how to solve it to obtain a wave function. But a crucial step is skipped because it has puzzled scientists since the earliest days\u2014how does the real, classical world emerge from, often, a large number of solutions for the wave functions?<\/p>\n<p>Each of these wave functions has its individual shape and associated <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/energy+level\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">energy level<\/a>, but how does the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/wave+function\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wave function<\/a> \u201ccollapse\u201d into what we see as the classical world\u2014atoms, cats and the pool noodles floating in the tepid swimming pool of a seedy hotel in Las Vegas hosting a convention of hungover businessmen trying to sell the world a better mousetrap?<\/p>\n<p>At a high level, this is handled by the \u201cBorn rule\u201d\u2014the postulate that the probability density for finding an object at a particular location is proportional to the square of the wave function at that position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students learning quantum mechanics are taught the Schrodinger equation and how to solve it to obtain a wave function. But a crucial step is skipped because it has puzzled scientists since the earliest days\u2014how does the real, classical world emerge from, often, a large number of solutions for the wave functions? Each of these wave [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,32,41,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-education","category-information-science","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}