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== Proposal ==
 
I propose that people that are knowledgeable about quantum mechanics list here topics that should be included in an article on quantum mechanics for the layperson. (Maybe that would be a better title of this article?).  I hope that skilled (possibly, or even preferably, non-science) writers pick this up and make a readable, consistent, article out of it. If they slip or misunderstand something don't  worry, that has happened to every learner of QM. --[[User:Paul Wormer|Paul Wormer]] 12:19, 1 April 2008 (CDT)
 
:Recall we have a Student Level subpage that has not been utilized much yet. Such an article would live at [[Quantum mechanics/Student Level]].  One problem is I'm not sure we have really defined the role of this subpage, although I would think aiming it at the layperson should be the target.  [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 12:31, 1 April 2008 (CDT)
 
::I was not thinking of students, but of journalists and of other interested adults that want to widen their horizon, but it could be useful to (non-physics) students as well. --[[User:Paul Wormer|Paul Wormer]] 12:38, 1 April 2008 (CDT)
 
==Historical approach?==
An approach could be historical (I write this from memory, I'm without books):
 
#Around 1890 physics is "finished", minor detail: UV catastrophe.
#1900 Planck solves UV catastrophe by quantizing the energy of harmonic oscillator (Insert here: explanation harmonic oscillator and its use in physical models).
#1905 Einstein proposes that light consists of virtual quantized oscillators to explain photoelectric effect
#Around 1910 quantization lattice vibrations (Einstein Debye crystal)
#1913 Bohr atom
#1915 Old Bohr-Sommerfeld quantum theory
#1924 de Broglie: (very very light) particle shows wave properties (insert about waves)
#1925 Heisenberg, Born, Jordan: matrix mechanics (insert about matrices)
#1926 Schroedinger wave equations (time-independent, time-dependent), relation with matrix mechanics
#1926 Spin
#1927 Pauli exclusion principle, Heisenberg uncertainty relation. Non-relativistic QM essentially finished at this point in time.
 
--[[User:Paul Wormer|Paul Wormer]] 12:38, 1 April 2008 (CDT)

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