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Originally Posted by PairTheBoard
What is causing what in the evolution of the complex valued Schrodinger wave equation? Complex values are causing complex values as it evolves in time? And do these complex values cause the real value of a measurement? How does that happen when the only information provided by the complex valued Schrodinger wave that's pertinent to the yet unknown value of the measurement is a real valued probability distribution?
What is causing a rock rolling down a hill to continue rolling down the hill? You can cite the kinetic energy of the rock and the gravitational potential energy. This is what the Hamiltonian encompasses, on one side of Schrodinger's equation.
Why complex values? A lot of ink has been spilled, but all we really know is that we definitely need them. I wouldn't get too hung up on that, just see it as a mathematical device needed to make the equations fit reality.
